2002-05-22 11:54 p.m.

will I ever be good enough for anyone?

hmm...well, here I am lying on the floor in front of my little iBook computer (I don't have my desk yet.) hmm...Do you ever just sit and stare and even though you know you have stuff you could say, you just don't seem to care? ...'cause I don't know right now.

This is the most alone I've ever been in my life. Really. My roommates are all gone and I'm in the house by myself. I've never been by myself - I'm from a family of 6 kids, remember? Most of my friends are home or someplace else for the summer. It's VERY strange to have no one to talk to, I mean, no one is around me. I go hours without opening my mouth; this is so foregin to me - the quiet.

So, I've been thinking too much. I still don't have something to live for. I have my family, I know, but I want a different type of relationship, a different type of love. I want someone who's gonna be worth getting up for in the morning. I want someone to think of me as their reason to get up. I want to be someone's everything. I never have before. No guy has ever loved me this way. And that makes me feel so pathetic, as though something is wrong with me.

Why do I have to live with two engaged roommates? They drove me crazy last week when they were here, how the heck am I supposed to survive an entire year with them? I know they do not mean to do any of this, but everyday I'm with them is like a reminder that I am not not good enough to find anyone yet. I want someone to just share all the random little bits of my life with, I want a best friend, a soul mate, a co-adventurer through this crazy life we're forced to live. I feel as though all my friends are being taken away and I'm forced to live yet again on my own. I don't mind, I'm rather independent, I perfer to be on my own. Only, after awhile of being on my own, I feel like I am only kidding myself from the real truth that no one else wants to be with me.

This school does these crazy things to me!!! Too many people getting married! I feel very left out! And no way in hell do I want to date an ACU guy, they're so, well, legalistic and non-orginal, sorta, I can't really describe the guys here. Yes, there are some pretty hot guys and hey, I wouldn't mind a few free dates here and there, but I see no potential for someone I'd want to spend my life with or anything.

But, will I EVER meet someone? What happened to me? I used to be the type to say that I was just fine single and that'd I'd meet someone eventaully. I guess eventually isn't coming for me, even though it's come for so many others .

Oh, and then my best friend, who IS one of the engaged roommates is in Africa right now, doing mission work. It's so weird. I'm jealous. The only job I would always love to have would be that of a missionary. Except for the whole evangelisim part, I mean. Think about it, some church pays for everything you'll ever need, you live in some exotic land and you have crazy adventures. That is the life for me, a little missionaries wife. Only I'm not a Christian, so it'd never work! :) Plus, my best friend is engaged and happy and it just so sucks for me 'cause I don't get to talk to her as much anymore. I really have no one to talk to - especially right now. Perhaps this would account for this exceedingly long diaryland diary entry, huh? :)

I still want someone to talk to, someone to share everything with. I don't want to be like this though, I really don't. I want to be independant and self-sufficent. I don't like sounding like I'm one of those girls who finds their sense of self only though guys, 'cause I have never been like that. I don't like talking like this, but it's all true.

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Thursday, Aug. 03, 2017 - hello?
Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014 - strange dream
Monday, Oct. 06, 2014 - catholic and friends
Thursday, Sept. 04, 2014 - changing. and I need to go to bed.
Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014 - dreams of dying

Chapters of My Life
Motherhood
Sept. 2011 - now Being a mother.
Isolation&Infertility (&pregnancy)
Aug. 2009 - Sept. 2011 Working from home in a job that I love...that comes with a loneliness I hate. A husband who works too much, and continued failure to start a family. Slowly spiraling, forgotten, into social invisibility. Accepting and experiencing the potential of pregnancy.
First-Year Teacher
Aug. 2008 - Aug. 2009. pretty much the hardest job I hope I ever have. and all the while trying not to admit my secret turmoil over longings for/attempts at/failure to produce what's supposedly supposed to come after love and then marriage...
Optimism
Aug. 2007 - Aug. 2008. finally accepting that becoming a normal grown up is not just inevitable, but preferable. better job situations for both of us. working freelance as a studio teacher, and becoming an egg donor.
Fading Dreams...
Dec. 2006 - July 2007. student teaching, being poor, consistent job rejections, trying to save face while feeling hopeless.
To Live a Life Worth Death...
July 2006 - Nov. 2006. thinking about death a lot, accepting life and my eventual end. career and passions - beginning the path of contribution to what I will leave behind...
Identity Crisis/Marriage
Oct. 2005 - Apr. 2006. new job. new career. new last name. new husband. new life. who was I and what was I becoming?
The Official End to Childhood? II
June 2005 - Sept. 2005. preparing for a life that still felt like pretend. was I really a 'grown-up' already? weird.
The Official End to Childhood? I
Feb. 2005 - June 2005. losing my virginity, getting engaged, changing my career, selling our childhood home...slowly losing everything that held me as a child... (Meet Mr. Mom 4/05 - 5/05. working/travelling on production of my 4th & LAST reality show ever.)
Quarter-Life Crisis/Unemployment
Sept. 2004 - Feb 2005. no steady job for 5 months - definitely not a good place to be. oh, and I fell in love - which is a good place to be, but it kind of only adds to the confusion.
Postlude to the Prelude
Apr. 2004 - May 2004. I had no clue what things were being set in motion...but everything has changed from there.
The Simple Life 2
Mar. 2004-Apr. 2004. not the deepest thinking period of my life, but I learned a heck of a lot about production of a reality tv show.
L.A. #2 - The Real World
Aug. 2003-Feb. 2004.the big move. transplanting my life. ironically not only working in the "real world", but also AT the company that makes The Real World.
That Weird, Here Nor There, Summer
May 2003-Aug. 2003. a college graduate, but not yet in the grown-up world. just existing. and waiting. and thinking.
Goodbye College
Jan. 2003-May 2003. it's a weird thing, the last semester of college. lots of thinking about what lies beyond.
The Semester From Hell
Aug. 2002-Dec. 2002. it was kind of like I tried to cram 4 yrs. of growing-up experiences into one semester.
I've Changed?
Apr. 2002-Aug. 2002. after L.A. and stuck right in-between the two most intense "finding-myself" semesters of my life!
L.A. #1 - Interning/Discovering
Jan. 2002 - Apr. 2002. I finally stepped WAY outside my comfort zone and went where I had no freakin idea what I was doing. Living outside your bubble for awhile really makes you see differently.
Beginnings/Depression
Aug. 2001-Jan. 2002. who I was, and sometimes who I still am. how it started and how it was before.