HI! been a minute since i did a post but i've been somewhat busy, more so in a mental sense but i've been getting out more which has been nice :]] MY BIRTHDAY WAS GOOD thank you for asking - we had a very good night and we watched the stars as we counted down to midnight, it was the best.
i finished a game today called 'We Know The Devil, it's an incredible visual novel and i highly encourage playing! it's been sitting with me for a few hours now and at the core of the angsty queer humourous horror there's such a key focus on friendship.
I realised recently that i never really had friends before, not like i do now at least. I never made friends when i was younger because i figured it would sort of inevitably end, and then going into secondary school began the teenage cycle of hanging out with a group of people who kinda sorta like you - mainly as a defense mechanism against everyone else. College was the worst for me with the beggining of my eating disorder and hightened anxiety, which were probably at their most severe suring that time. Mix that with some desperation and a sticky wetherspoons table and thats pretty much the experience i had.
The sticky tables have persisted, and yet i find myself so at peace in a way i never have before, i suppose its that feeling of security which has allowed me to realise how insecure i've felt for my entire life. i think it's so easy to fall into the mental state of not relying on others, it's safer and makes your problems your own, not a burden and not a bother. And while it may feel that way for a long time, i dont think it's sustainable - the introduction of truly caring people into my life has been a total shock to the system in ways i wouldn't have expected but i couldn't be more grateful for it. when i finished we know the devil, i was left with the knowledge that there were multiple people around me who i felt that close to. They might not come in threes or wear matching shirts but they're there, and they're not few, but many. That sort of closeness and connection i'm able to feel with a totally seperate consiousness to mine is a concept so beautifully taken for granted everytime i wake up.
i believe that if the devil came tonight, i have friends who would pick up the pieces of me at dawn, and know just how to fit them together again. And it's for that reason she comes for me no more - i dont know the devil.