So I finally got out, and now I ma here and I feel so very lost. California is beautiful really but I am lonely and sad though I wouldn't tell my friends that. Oddly it's not depression, more like homesickness except I don't want to go back to AK... I just want J back. I know that he doesn't feel about me the way I do about him which makes it even more disgusting and I
keep trying to tell myself I hate him for that but my mind has love and hate inextricably bound to each other. I don't love him anymore but hatred is an emotion just as volatile. I just want him because being with him is like coming home. It's warm and safe and I can actually be myself around him in a way that I can't be with other people.
In other news, it's been so beautiful here though the gays are so very much different than what I am used to. For one they are mostly older and in relationships, for two a lot of them are very stand offish. One of my friends in AK was astounded to hear that I wasn't going out with the gays here to party every night, I explained the situation and he told me I should make a Nat Geo documentary which just about killed me I was laughing so hard. Can you imagine traveling around making documentaries about gays?
I'm beginning to realize that emotionally my growth stopped when I was 14, literally stopped, which may account for many of the problems I have had. The issue is that I don't know how to allow myself to grow up emotionally, "once bitten, twice shy" after all. It's not that I am immature in actuality, but that is possibly because I have always acted older than I am so I have coasted on that. My worry is that I won't be able to grow any more without something significant happening to me. I am aware that changing my entire life is significant in and of itself and was probably the catalyst for this realization. I just don't know how to proceed from here. One thing I don't think I can do or should do is fall back into the pattern I had before, I think I need to allow my self to experience and cultivate a HEALTHY relationship rather than just coasting by on one night stands, playing house with my gays, or giving in emotionally to men who, while they do care about me, can never care for me the way that I care for them.
However, barring all of this, I don't know that I can handle having a relationship with anyone at this point. Maybe it would be best if I just gave myself time to learn who I was. I have always been an independent person with strong opinions and moral codes. I have come to realize that I am not certain anymore what opinions I have formed based on my personal experiences and what opinions have been formed because they match the opinions of my various friends or lovers. This disturbs me as I have never consciously been in the habit of kow towing to others in anything, it seems subconsciously I have been doing so all along. I need time to be a little person in a big world and I think that I am giving myself that time in the only way I know how, by withdrawing from everyone and everything that I have ever known and learning to be alone. Learning to count on myself and no one else.
I know people tell me all the time that I should go and talk to someone about all of this but I can't. I simply cannot express, verbally, what it is that goes on in my head because I don't fully understand it myself. Writing is the ONLY way that I can do this and, while I could go visit a counselor/therapist/psychologist/psychiatrist I don't think they would care to read through everything I have ever written in my life to try and fully understand the enigma that I am to myself. Maybe loneliness is the only cure for what it is that is wrong with me.
Sorry for the long rant, I am really okay here with people who love me and a wealth of new experiences that are just waiting for me to happen upon them. I hope everyone is doing as well as I am right now.