Sunday, January 15, 2012

Books, barriers and babies...

Have you ever had one of those days where you not only WANT to cry, but you know you NEED to cry? Today, is one such day for me. I have been needing to cry for several days, perhaps even longer...I've lost all sense of time really. That seems to happen when I don't have set, daily obligations.
I Finished the final book in The Hunger Games trilogy. It was a good series. I rather enjoyed it, lost myself in the story and escaped reality for hours...but unfortunately I am done. each book drew out my emotions. I laughed, feared, cried, and felt rage...But I wasn't able to really let loose and cry, I mean really cry. You know those tears, that roll down your cheeks, can't catch your breath, or focus your thoughts kind of cry? I need one of those, and all I have managed are a few escaped tears...I even pulled out pictures, and journals of a happier time...I looked through pictures of me and my past loves, I looked at pictures of me with my pregnant belly, I looked at pictures of gleeful childhood days. each picture with a warm smile that shows I am happy, safe, and loved....almost carefree. Instead of breaking my impenetrable barrier and making me cry, it reinforced the wall around my heart and mind shutting all emotions out, except anger. I was absolutely livid, that my "once upon a time" didn't end in happily ever after....instead it is still being written, with a dreary day to day monotony, that I don't know how to change.
It seems as the days go on, I become even more distant to the people that I call friends. Even today, Angie, was getting me to open up and talk. I felt crazy, exposed, and vulnerable. I quickly got defensive and ended the conversation.
Now at just after 6pm, I am looking for a way to cry. i have tried books, pictures, music, talking to people who make me feel bad about myself, talking to people who make me smile and want to be a better person, sitting alone and thinking, and writing......i am out of crying ideas. Aside from inflicting physical pain on myself  so that I can feel something, anything to make the tears flow.
Oh well, maybe tomorrow will bring the rush of tears and the emotional release i desperately desire.
Blue skies are just around the corner, I know it.

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