It's two am, at least, and I am wide awake but weary of the world. Why is it that beauty and love are so entwined? Like only people born a certain way are worthy. To be a beauty, and thus, a worthy human being, I would need extensive plastic surgery and to lose at least 80 lbs. I haven't gotten the money, and with my health problems, past and present, I'm not even sure I could lose all that weight. I can only do limited exercise, and from medications, bulimia, and old age, my metabolism is shot. Thus, my love life is doomed. I will always be alone, pretending to be fulfilled by friendships and reading and gardening, and all those other things pathetic old maids do. I will get desperate, and be horribly used and abused until I'm not even good for that.
I've never known love. My family is ashamed I exist. I am a worry and a bother. No one has ever been in love with me. I was always used for sex or money or whatever. Those things never last long. I have spent my youth as a disgraceful whore. I rarely went out with the same person twice. The one person I loved, couldn't get past the way I look. She looked ill every time she looked in my direction, as if she couldn't believe she linked herself to a monster. We see each other on rare occasions, but it can't last- she is slender and stunning, and I am embarrassed for her that we are connected in any way. Sometimes I hate her, for being born perfect and not knowing suffering- but that's not her fault, no more than it is mine that I am hideous. I just wish I had died at birth, and never known the truth, that there is nothing worth living for. Our lives are spelled out from conception, and nothing we can do changes anything.
The musings of a crazy lady from Hamilton, Ohio. "Madwoman in the attic" is a reference to the book "Jane Eyre," and our world where we try to silence and "lock away" the mentally ill.
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