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| | Moonlight Sonata - Ludwig von Beethoven | ] | I do not know what I am feeling right now. It is like sadness, like depression, only different. More vivid, and much more alive. Pulsating. Walking with me, tugging at my hand, gently coaxing me into an abyss of cynicism and rag-tag dreams. My sleep is never well. My dreams are malicious. I hate sleeping, I hate waking up, and I hate being awake. I feel purposeless and hollow and empty and un-fullfilled. Is it because I am? I feel as though I am having a mid-life crisis. Or, rather, a quarter-life crisis. Wait, no...eighth-life crisis. I have stopped, and now I am looking back. Looking back at everything, my fondest triumphs, my deepest regrets, my uncouth and lustful desires. They take me nowhere. However I have never been the indulgent sort. Avarice was always an ill fit with me. Am I fated to be unhappy forever?
No. I was happy in New York. Brooklyn. Canarsie. Avenue L. I was not an outcast then. I was not "weird" or "annoying." I was admired. I was envied. Imagine that, a swarm of little middle school aged boys and girls swooning over a pathetic waste of space like me! Can you imagine it, baby, because I can. It is all I think about, all I desire, and all I truly ever dream about. And then I came here. This dreaded place, of all places. The Angels? Oh no, oh no, I am positive the Duke of York himself would be most displeased with such a title to a city of smoke, smog, and lies. No stars at night? No gunshots piercing my ears at dawn? No cracks in my back porch, no yellowing kitchens, no sleazy refrigerator door romance, no feverish moon-induced exaltation under the faux starlit sky of a 50 dollar limo? Oh, how I long for my former shattered life! So what if I was incomplete and unaware, so what if I was blissful and innocent?! Does it not mean more to you that I was happy? Or that right now I am anything but. Is it so?
I am tired but I cannot sleep.
I cannot begin to describe how much I am dreading the remainder of my life. WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE, AND BY SAME LOGIC, DOES THAT MAKE ME A GOOD PERSON BECAUSE BAD THINGS CONSTANTLY HAPPEN TO ME?
I wish I was smarter. I wish I had the mathematical capacity to fully comprehend physics, almost as much as I wish someone would explain to me the HH initial state in lay terms. Why am I always so sad? People like me, or they say they do, but why does that affect my life at all? I won't be an altruist anymore. Here and now, I refuse!
Is it is because I am jealous? Do these people even recognize how jealous I am? Call it what you want, juvenile, insecure, ignorant, or just plain stupid. I am not in denial. And I never was. I don't have any escapes anymore. I don't have any excuses, I don't have anywhere to hide now. I am truly destined to come within mere inches of my goal...and let it slip through not like water or dirt or sand ...but like
a i r traceless, tasteless, and irrevocably immune... to all.
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