Sometimes you had planned so much about a life with a certain person in it, that even a picture or a memory of them today can make you feel completely empty from inside. Although you were happily living your life on your own till yesterday and its been years of not being in touch with them.
I have never been a person who had any big plans for my 20s. Honestly, my plans have always been about life in general, like I should ultimately become this, I should have someone who loves me and I should travel a lot but no goal like I should achieve this particular thing in my 20s. Although now when I am really in this stage of my life I have realised how much I have to do and how much I am doing. It's really a life changing phase, you are no more a kid and you are not even a responsible adult. Your time to make 'n' number of mistakes is over but yet you are clueless about the best decisions for yourself in more than 99% of occasions. You have people to support you but you don't have people to walk with you on difficult paths.
I am in my 20s unaware of what is right and what is wrong. Adulting at my own pace usually seems slower than others. Deep down I know I am growing, I appreciate how far I have come but on the other end it doesn't seem enough. I have learnt a lot, I am different from what I was in school. I am stronger but yet more fragile than before. I am confident yet afraid of others' perception about me as a whole. I am surrounded by people yet alone for long. I want to be loved romantically yet I am afraid of commitment. It's complicated but still clear. Maybe 20s is about being everything, being a super hero and a weakling together. It's about feeling everything so that ultimately you know what you want to be. It's about living different lives with single soul. It's about experimenting everything so that in your 30s you know which experiment had the most successful results.
It doesn't need any planning, it's just about living in the moment, going on a road trip without a map but with hope of reaching the destination. It can be a successful and joyful ride, it can be a painful and rough ride but in the end where ever you reach will be far away from where you started and would be indeed more lovelier than what you plan.
So you left me
I realised late
Ah! That was always my fate
I know I ignored you first
But what you did was worst
Found the diagnosis to my problems...
Morbid fear of solitude, or of being left alone, abandoned or ignored.
P.S.: Solitude is often good but the rest are just dreadful.
I wish I knew you before I knew you
Nobody loves me the way that you do
Wish we were friends when we were kids
I think it'd still feel just like this
I just can't stop missing you
When it gets late in my hotel room
Tell me what time you're coming through
Why did I get so hooked on you?
Knew you by Kailee Morgue
I tell everyone that I write when I am sad but actually I write when I am 'the perfect amount of sad' like a little bit of extra sadness makes what I write sound weird and a little less can just shut my brain.
P.S. I don't know what that 'perfect amount of sad' is... Haha
The best thing about characters of a book is not what they do in the book, it's the little backstory about them. The story that makes them what they are in the book. No character is beautiful without their backstory. And ain't it the same with humans??
You don't know what battles I am fighting
You don't know the ones I am winning and losing
You don't know if my breakfast is sweet or bitter
You don't know if I am returning to a bed of flowers or nails
You don't know if I am having nightmares
You don't know if my mornings are even fair
You just know I speak less
You don't know that each of my actions are shouting ahead
You don't know enough because I am not willing to tell
You don't know enough because you are not the risk I am willing to take
I am an introvert, you think I like playing safe
But you don't know even privacy is like a fire play
Back home, Connell’s shyness never seemed like much of an obstacle to his social life, because everyone knew who he was already, and there was never any need to introduce himself or create impressions about his personality. If anything, his personality seemed like something external to himself, managed by the opinions of others, rather than anything he individually did or produced. Now he has a sense of invisibility, nothingness, with no reputation to recommend him to anyone.
- Normal people by Sally Rooney
The wish to be alone is so wierd, you try to forget so many people and end up remembering so many things at once.
Writing my heart out was never easy
But her friendship was so breezy
I first met her on the school bus
She had a lot of questions to buzz
Who was I, why was I so
I was new so she did not know
We got to talking slowly
The bond was new but cozy
We became close
Just two nut heads with screws loose
She became candid
Although my shyness still bid
She was never the perfect soul
But I appreciated her flaws in its whole
People told me she is imposing
I just thought that people were intruding
Many hated her for being honest
But for me her honesty brought us closest
I never knew a person who could speak her heart out
She was different without a doubt
She was a critic at best
She always reviewed me like the rest
We are poles apart
But still together at heart
We had the greatest blast
With her i even wished for the uncomfortable bus trips to last
We never found a medication to our condition
But it gave a lot of happy moments to our edition
It was so easy with her
She never bothered if my answer was contrasting with her
We were comfortable in our skin
We never expected each other to be akin
We have been close through ups and downs
Even talking once a few months didn't bring our friendship to ground
She always said seven years are all we need
After that nobody can break our bond even if they bleed
I didn't take it seriously ever
But now it is a truth forever
Today she means a lot
I never regret doing something for her even as much as a dot
I am willing to be her safety net
I will always be in her debt