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This blog entry contains discussion of depression, suicide, and other difficult material. If uninterested, please refrain from reading.
I often write about this concept of vampire billionaires sucking the blood from the world and using it all to make a throne of blood. The idea was that the longer we wait to stop them, the more their throne coagulates and solidifies.
I feel like we missed the first signs of hardening and now we're scrambling to make do with the time we've got. So few mean to actually use any "bleach" to stop them.
You can tell that this isn't how I usually write these. Yeah.
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Back pain is killing me these days... I'll stop whingeing.
I'll tell you what's changed. I don't see a way out of the labors. I'm not really looking to stop the vulture from getting his meal. I'm choosing to be more... easygoing, I guess.
To say less, to be less. Tout dou, tout dou, tout doucement...
The next word to consider is "Jazz."
Blossom Dearie settled my nerves again. And what moves my ruminations more effectively than Dizzie Gillespie? A Night In Tunisia, I could never thank Mr. Burkett enough.
I still believe Jazz is a daunting endeavor. It's a terrifying medium.
I'm getting too esoteric. Jazz music, to me, is a lot more important and significant than the word "Jazz" could mean to encapsulate. Jazz is, in my mind, a kind of psychological state of being. It's like a social expertise of leisure.
I'm sorry... a smart kind of relaxation. I'm not trying to be funny here. I'm trying time teach myself to be less literary, more diaristic.
Again...
Less wordy, more real. I'm not editing or erasing this, you must know. I'm genuinely self editorializing as the words are put on the screen. No AI.
Jazz is too real. Right now I'm listening to Charles Mingus and getting all kinds of depressed.
That's not a joke or anything. What I do is "Jazz." Miles didn't like that word. I'm a lightweight on Jazz. And I want to unlearn my love for it.
You might be asking, why? Why would you ever want that? You said you loved Jazz?
Yes, yes... I can tell you the reason.
I want to understood by other people. I want to be seen. It's just vanity stuff. Very trite and self interested.
I mean, it's really airheaded and pretentious. I guess I just came to realize that the people that catch my eye don't seem to care for what makes me who I am. Two different people I met on the apps seemed not to like me that much. So I need to be less like myself. More like them.
It's the wrong mindset. It is not the correct lesson to learn, and it's not even close to being accurate on what went wrong or what I need to change. But I'm just so tired. I'm so tired.
I'm so tired that I'm basically allowing myself to give in to a mindset and thinking that I know is incorrect and harmful.
It's a kind of tired that makes me feel like I'm already dead.
I think part of the problem is I don't make an effort to mask. My life is really frustrating and difficult, and I'm happy about a lot of things, but I don't feel a need to sugarcoat that fact. I think being raped changed my perspective on reality.
I became a sort of person that doesn't value the necessary faces we should be wearing. I'm learning to put mine back on.
It's not ever going to be chic to be truly vulnerable.
In my eyes, willingly sharing my music with somebody I trust is meant to be an act of love and respect. But I don't think it carries any weight. I don't sound like love. My music doesn't touch people, not in any meaningful way. So I think I'll stop doing that.
It's just another day of depression. It's nothing new. It's nothing real.
There it is. That felt more personable. I made it stupid, and it worked better.
I don't think I like this. I prefer the esoteric stuff. It feels more honest.
The sky is a blank sheet of grey. The air is cold. And I'm psychologically dying.
I just can't believe I thought I was doing well. I really thought I could have something nice...
Cronkite told me not to take everything personally... yeah, he's right. But it just makes it worse. Because it could mean there was nothing I could do. I was a fluke. It shouldn't have ever happened.
I guess it's entirely possible there's a sort of age regression at play with the depression. But I'd have to accept that this is what every day was for me, when I was younger. I don't remember what it's like to not be depressed.
I would leave me, too.
I know my sister sees me as lesser than. I won't engage with my feelings, not in the apartment. They don't treat me very kindly unless they want something from me. I don't think they're a bad person. I think they're normal. So it's not worth mentioning.
My parents are nicer to me because they miss me.
I used to kindly text my friends and do small talk on the phone when I felt depressed like this. It helped until I started thinking... I don't think they want to hear from me anymore. I'll never know.
I've just been doing normal words, and I'm doing pretty good. This is working, I think.
I'm going to take a nap. And I'll forget all of this when I wake up.