o/` Peter Murphy – No Home Without Its Sire o/`
I finally broke down and gave my livejournal name to a few people I’ve met in real life through Myk. I’ve explained before my rationalization for being so shy about it. I’m an expert rationalizer. It wasn’t until a discussion with Myk the other night that I realized they really were just excuses to hide how shy I was, and they were bordering on being a bit crazy. I’ve known these things for a while, but he helped me sort out my thoughts a bit and every excuse boiled down to “I’m paranoid about what people will think of me.”
Now this paranoia really is silly. Does it really matter if someone doesn’t like me? Does it matter if they don’t think I’m smart? Does it matter if they think my entries are stupid? No, no of course not.
I learned recently that this sort of “worrying about what people will think” is another symptom of chronic depression. I should have expected that. I have been told by several people that I’m far too hard on myself. I don’t feel like I’m ever acomplishing enough, I never feel smart enough, I never feel like I’m doing enough that’s “Worthwhile.” I’ve actually become much better at dealing with these things, and I certainly no longer have the absoulte self-loathing that I used to have. I can mostly do away with most of the depression if I keep myself busy and focused on being positive instead of being so negative like I was before. I still can’t help that deep down feeling of these things however. Somehow this leads me to believe that everyone who gets to know me will see these things too, despite past experiences. Bleh. I’m still resisting seeing a doctor about this, looking back at all the progress I’ve made through this depression I think it really might be possible to deal with without any sort of crazy medicinal intervention, especially since my life really is great. I have a beautiful home, I have wonderful friends, I have an amazing boyfriend.
Speaking of being down, I’m so glad it’s friday, this week has been so long. Our friend N-Tropy is having a party tomorrow, which will be nice because I want to get out and see friends. I’ve had a great time with Myk these past few weeks, but sometimes I get lonely for other social contact. This will definately cheer me up, and give me a break from being shut up inside with my computer %)
This morning was fairly productive. Cleaned the apartment like I do every friday morning, paid some bills, made a couple of the albums I have into oggs. I started making all my cds into oggs a couple months ago, but sorta quit because I got a bit lazy. Now that we’re moving all sorts of things around I want to get as many old mp3s deleted as possible, and replace as much as I can with shiny new oggs %).
My youngest sister (Annette, soccergurl, she’s 14) proved to me yet again how unlike me she is this week. On Wednesday she went to a Nelly concert. Nelly apparently is a popular rapper (“Not as good as 50 Cent,” my sister informs me, 50 Cent? My lack of knowledge about pop culture is no joke.). Ugh, rap. She won front seat tickets from a radio station. I hate rap. I never called a radio station. I have never been to a rock/rap concert. How can I be related to her? *chuckles* To top it off she decided to come into #13thHour briefly to stur things up a bit, which she is always successful in doing. Most of the people in the channel are pretty mellow, and when she comes in it becomes a crazy mess with her AOLese.
Bah little sisters. Heather, who came into #13thHour yesterday asking for computer advise, ended up buying another Gateway. Why did she waste my time asking my opinion if she had already decided? I guess I shouldn’t care so much, as long as she doesn’t come to me complaining when things start breaking %)
I’m going to go try and work on a couple things now, maybe the irssi mini-howto. *wanders off*