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This struck a chord:

I was such a soft touch
You solved your problems with a pout
I’ll never forget you
Or let you back inside my house.
You misread me.
-Bookmark
The Guild League

I suppose it can’t be helped. I’ll always remember your birthday, because it is exactly two weeks before mine.

What I would give you if I could: a sense of worth (both your own and other people’s), a sense of proportion, a sense of duty, a sense of dignity, a sense of shame, a wish for fulfilment, a wish for help, the ability to ask for the help you actually need as opposed to the help you want, a wish to compensate for the pain you caused, the ability to recognise the pain you caused, the ability to live your actual life as opposed to the fantasy life in your head, courage.

The more I think about life the more I’m convinced that this is it, as far as this plane of consciousness goes. I don’t think there is reincarnation, or if so not in the straightforward form usually thought of, rather more a gathering of conscious into a life, not always exactly the same conscious that may have previously made up a life. Nor do I think we retain this level of consiousness in any afterlife that may exist, I'm not sure whether consiousness increases or decreases or does something completley different, but I can't see how it could stay the same. Anyway, I digress (I’m good at that). My point is, if this is all there is on this level, you are squandering your time. Instead of making this life the most beautiful and exquisite you could for yourself and for your fellow humans you are ripping it down, locking yourself in a cage and watching jealously those with the courage to walk free. Your jealousy means that if it's in your power you try to rip down not only your own life but the lives of those who come in contact with you. Because you refuse to leave your cage you don’t gain what those outside cages gain; the ability to achieve fulfilment. You think it provides protection when it actually locks you into your own personal hell and makes it easier for your nightmares of being alone and unattended and unwanted to get in. You have the ultimate fear of failure that stops you trying so you can say that had you tried you would have succeeded, you fear failing at life.

I hope you’ve quit smoking.
I hope you’ve cut down on drinking.
I hope you’ve stopped eating so much junk food.
I hope you’re getting more exercise.
I hope you’ve faced up to your actions.
I hope you’re currently working to repay at least the financial pain you caused.

While I hope this I can see you in my mind, on your verandah, a cigarette in one hand, a glass of wine in the other, some chips or pies on the table, in a comfortable chair, loudly denouncing me and those I love to whoever it is you’ve currently managed to con. Either that or you’ve moved on to another imaginary crisis you’re using to make your “friend” stay loyal, because deep down you fear that without your imaginary crises you just don’t have the skills any longer to hold someone’s interest in a friendship. They’re probably sitting there quite uncomfortable, and if you’ve had them in your clutches long enough for your initial charm to wear off they’re probably wondering how long they’ll have to stay to keep you happy.

I can’t give you any of the things you truly need, and I never could. Anything you need now has to come from within. It is all in there, I wish you'd manifest the desire to find it.

Through everything, you did bestow on me one true gift, and it was the only gift you didn’t know you gave; I know I never want to be you. I will never let my love of storytelling blow out into slanderous lies. I will never let my need of approval and love become a grim competition with anyone else in the life of my friends or partner. I will never let my partiality for fun and pleasure tip me into a life of complete excess. I will never forget the value of things; whether those things be material like food and clothes, or intangible ideas like love, friendship and trust. I will never again not try because I am scared of failing.

I’ll never forget you.

Or let you back inside my house.

Happy 25th birthday.

Date: 2008-10-27 10:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mstakenidentity.livejournal.com
I would like a hug when you get home, please.

Date: 2008-10-27 01:09 am (UTC)

Date: 2008-10-27 01:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vivienne-aster.livejournal.com
*hugs* For whatever reason, those lyrics also made Michael think of Eliza and those who were impacted by her. I guess there are more of them out there.

Date: 2008-10-27 01:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mstakenidentity.livejournal.com
lovefraud.com

You've no idea...

Actually that website comforted me in a way, because so many other people have fallen for similar people. I was especially struck by the woman who had had her life wrecked by another woman and her fake pregnancies...

Date: 2008-10-27 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clappamungus.livejournal.com
I love you, mate. And I'm proud that you can write what you did and have sympathy for that worthless lump of shit.

Date: 2008-10-27 03:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mstakenidentity.livejournal.com
I love you too.

And remember, this post is written after a year of professional therapy. I doubt I could be this cohearant and open and aware and calm were it not for the counseling. It's come at a high price, and not just financially.

Date: 2008-10-27 05:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vox-diabolica.livejournal.com
I prefer 'Worthless fat sack of crap'. It has a better bounce to it.

Date: 2008-10-27 09:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mc-shamo.livejournal.com
heee heee heee.... bounce

Date: 2008-10-27 03:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saikogrrl.livejournal.com
*hugs*

Even with the therapy, you are a much more open and forgiving person than I think I could be in the same situation.

Date: 2008-10-27 04:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mstakenidentity.livejournal.com
There isn't much forgiveness there, there is empathy and pity, and a gladness that I could find at least one good thing out if the situation- the warning as to what would happen if some of my own characteristics were perverted and exaggerated- and great sorrow that another human being has resigned themselves to such an awful, empty existance.

But forgiveness? No, I can't honestly say that.

Date: 2008-10-27 05:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mc-shamo.livejournal.com
What has really been taken that can't be replaced?

What harm's really been done that can't be healed?

What has Eliza really gained; for all the pain she's brought on herself?

So.... What really is there to forgive?

Date: 2008-10-27 05:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mstakenidentity.livejournal.com
I'm afraid I can only really answer "nothing" to the third one at this stage. :-)

It takes time.

Date: 2008-10-27 05:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mc-shamo.livejournal.com
Ah well. Things seem smaller the further away from them you get :).

Worry not.

Date: 2008-10-27 04:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fnoo.livejournal.com
Yes. This goes some way to explaining why this is one of my favourite GL songs.

I heard those lyrics and instantly thought of her.

Date: 2008-10-27 04:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mstakenidentity.livejournal.com
As Kate said, it's not uncommon.

I find that really sad, for the people like that (there is no way on earth you can convince me that Eliza was ever happy, even when things were going well by her standards) and for those like us who get caught up in the show.

Date: 2008-10-27 04:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fnoo.livejournal.com
As long as I'm happy, and as long as the people I like are happy...

I have too many of my own problems to care about to give a whit about hers.

Date: 2008-10-27 05:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mstakenidentity.livejournal.com
I think this is more than fair.

I am still struggling with the fact that for many years she was one of the people I felt I had to care about and for. It's hard to turn that around, especially now when the energy and will she'd destroyed in me have been replenished (with the help of your good self among others) and I would have the energy to give the level of care I gave her, at least for a while. I know it would make things worse, and I know that more importantly I don't want to, but I'd been brainwashed for so long into thinking I should that it's hard to deal with sometimes. She'd manipulated me into remaining her friend for at least six months during which I'd activley disliked her, and then once she was dating Seamus I didn't want to lose him so continued to keep up appearances.

When she left it was like waking up from a nightmare, then I was thrust straight into another nightmare as I dealt with the devastation left in her wake, and I'm not just talking about other people here, I mean my own mental devastation. I think over the past few months I've come round to a point where peace with the situation (but not with her- never with her) is possible. And this is good. This is enough.

Date: 2008-10-27 09:38 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vass
*hugs*

Date: 2008-10-28 07:36 am (UTC)

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