Day 65
Thus to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence. Supreme excellence consists of breaking enemy's resistance without fighting.
This is gonna be one of those long updates. The longest of the long updates. But given circumstances I feel this one deserves its length
Bear with me!
For a couple of past posts I was saying how I expect something to happen as I've entered "calm before the storm" kind of circumstances. And while my ex texting me was surely big event it was not said storm.
It is yet to come, oh boy I can feel it, and while she might play role in all of this she is surely not the epicenter of events.
She didn't text me today. Neither did she reply to my skype messages as she wanted to talk with me proper (or rather I wanted to talk with her face to face and she said she's rather skype with me). I don't know why.
I do not care why. I was not messaging her for 5 months and I will not do this now. In the past I might have be promising myself I wouldn't and eventually I did, true that. However now I have no need, no will to do it. I can respond to her but I do not want on basic, subconscious level to initiate contact with her. Not to get back together, not to be friends, not to hurt her. Nothing.
But these past two days gave me a lot to think about. You see, all those thoughts about her I has holding in myself all this time finally found a way out yesterday and I proofed myself stronger than before. This reminds me of this song "Paid in Full" by Sonata Arctica, you should
go ahead and listen to it to get some context on my thinking. I just want to quote short part of it.
Quote:I fall back, and I turn another cheek.
You mouth the words you're not ready to speak
You're scared of me now; no I never had a clue
That I'd become so much stronger than you.
This is quite an important song for me as I would listen to it back when we were together and even I would send it to her so she knows what I think about her. She could never understand. She would only get mad, as she always did when I wanted to be assertive. And oh boy am I assertive now! If I were to guess I'd say that's the reason she's not following up on the contact with me -
she thought she could manipulate me again. Good luck.
How can I know that? Glad you asked. She started conversation with how she is "sorry" and "I was right all along". Ok, fair enough, nice gesture of humility. But then she started to attack me like in good old day. Unbeknownst to her her emotional blackmail not only doesn't work for me (oh, I remember times when I felt so sorry for her and just couldn't resist her) but I can smell it from mile away. And, what's more important, now
I know how, can and do protect myself and my rights. My point of view is just as valuable as hers and nothing she'd do could change it now.
But even with all of that I would not write this post. Ok, it's nice to brag about I've faced and won against my past (although given this might be just round 1
) but we must
dig deeper. And what is deeper is not especially stellar for me.
Cause why am I stronger now? Because of DMSI's healing? Sure, made huge progress but that's not whole story. I was shredding that story in
veil of mystery recently but I think I should write about this now.
2 months ago when some ugly facts came to my ears about my ex's whereabouts I was scared shitless she'd contact me. She took her sweet time to do this but back then I was panicking.
I knew I was too weak to face her back then and so I needed emotional shield. First I wrote to my sweetheart but she refused to come to contact with me. You see, my ex is the only person on this Earth to know how much I loved my sweetheart and if she knew about her presence in my life she's know there is no point in trying to come back. At least that was my screwed logic.
But weeks rolled and she wouldn't contact me. In that time I had
those three girls who had came into my life due to DMSI no doubt. One of them has a boyfriend now and cut contact with me not to make him jealous. Second one also has a boyfriend but also is just as crazy as my ex (don't stick into crazy argument with Sarge, remember that
), not to mention contact with her nowadays is sparse. The third one though...
My long distance relationship candidate, probable long distance snipee. She's kind, good-hearted, beautiful and free. And while a month back there was episode where I felt cucked because of her she broke up with that guy and now she learns how to be alone.
Well, WE learn how to be alone. You see, past couple of weeks we became good friends and we support each other in out emotional struggles. She listens to me, I listen to her. We laugh and cheer each other. Sounds quite gay (no offence to anyone
) but it's simple male-female friendship between two broken hearts.
She became closest thing I have to emotional shield. And I cannot tell how much I was able to hold my own against my ex because of my own strength and how much because of her. I cannot say that I love her or anything like that. I like her a lot, I found quite kinship in her. While it's true I'd like to be with her as she check all my requirements I don't feel like I need to be with her.
At this moment her friendship is more than enough for me. Sure, it's true that I search for double meaning in her messages and give myself some hope every now and then. It's so hard to read signals by simply chatting with someone. But quite frankly she seems to be my only great available option left after DMSI chaos and still I don't feel need to pursue her. Let her come to me if she wants or look for another is she doesn't.
My concern and point of the whole essay is how at this point can I know how much I grew as a person for the past half a year and how much am I still a lovesick child. Because given all the circumstances I am a bit afraid that I might be in love with her and I'm simply in denial at this point.
Did I truly grow or just exchange one poison for another? I did felt a bit hurt when she found herself a boyfriend back then, quite jealous after all. I don't know and only time will tell. That's why I didn't want to write about my snipee as everything is in such a flux.
And do you know what the funniest thing is? Day before my ex messaged me I was chatting with my snipee and I was talking how I'm letting go of my ex, how can watch TV shows and listen to music that remind me of her. That night
I broke last bastion of defense and listened with her the most emotional song connected to my ex. The remains of my anxiety towards my ex broke. Without my snipee I would not listen to that song that night and I would not be as prepared when the next day my ex wrote to me. Timing was so damn excellent.
And now try to believe in coincidences... No damn way!