I gotta say, first off, I'm sad. Yes, definitely, and completely, sad. It's 2008, what's there to be sad about, right? Well, this is the year I graduate and go to college. This is the year I wave my innocence good bye for good and become an adult. This is the year...I lose all my friends...
Over the past 2 years, I've built up a contingency of friends, of people I can count on, of people I can go to when I need them. And, I use them. I use them constantly. That's not to say I don't reciprocate, I try to as much as I can within my power. But, I'm not a 'go get her' kind of guy. I'll take the path commonly taken because I've been told 'hey, it's easier!' As fun as it is to give, there is always something I want as well. While others want 'this' of me, I want 'that.' The sad part is, if I get 'that' out of the way, I won't go and do 'this.' I'll do nothing instead. This is not the way I want to continue being.
But it's hard to break the cycle, hard to loosen the chains and slide out of them. I mean, I really don't know what I can do. I've been in my ways so long, it's like I've dug a rut in the ground, and it's gone too deep for me to climb out. I hate to say this, but my obligations are what are holding me back. If I had less people I had to fit a standard to, less people to worry about, less people to please, I'm sure I could do the things I wanted to do, as well as the things that they want me to do.
To all those I've hurt, I'm sorry. To all those I will hurt, I'm not. I'm going to try to be the vision that everyone sees me as, and if I hurt people in the process, so be it, I'm me, not the me you see.
I guess I'll end this with my resolution...
I will be me this year.