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silversolitaireI realized something about myself today. I may no longer be the person I want to be. And I can't decide whether this is a good thing or not. Currently I am stuck in some kind of artistic slump that makes it impossible for me to decide whether something I do is good or bad. I just loathe it all. And it's not because I'm fishing for compliments or because I need people to tell me how great I am, no... I sincerely don't know. It all feels dead. I create things... but they don't move. Like a stillborn... and I poke them, but they don't touch me. I don't know how to recreate this feeling.
I don't feel special anymore. And I don't feel smart or bright or brilliant. I often feel like important knowledge has slipped my brain, knowledge that I might have known at some point in life, but that I was never aware of. Just gone. I don't make sense when I talk, but in a non-artistic way. I have no depth anymore, and I don't know why.
When I look at my LJ I feel it's empty and meaningless, filled with daily rambling that might as well go forgotten. Things I really think, that really move me are never put down to paper. I'm too lazy to write them down, too lethargic to really get a hold of them.
I always wanted to be a special someone. I wanted to be odd to people, I wanted to startle them, surprise them, fascinate them. I don't think I am. I'm just me. And I can't be that way. I'm nice and agreeable and just one of the crowd. I don't know if I like that... Sometimes I wonder if all that I had feared when I went into therapy has happened now. I feared that once I lost my darkest depressions, I'd no longer be an artist. I feared that I'd lose myself, lose something important. I feared that when I stopped seeing my own blood I'd stop seeing life. And somehow I wonder if that has happened now. I'm still depressed. A lot, even. But it's different. I know there's always someone, to hold me, to protect me. It's no longer that hopeless... But I don't feel like an artist anymore... Isn't that odd?
Two years ago I had made the resolution to write down one smart thought every day. I wonder what happened to that. I'm no longer smart now. I should have done it sooner it appears...
Life is meaningless when you no longer can decide whether the things you do are good or bad... when you need people to decide it for you and you're unable to believe it anyway...
I'm still not making sense. I should stop now.
I don't know myself anymore... say hello to me. Hello... it's me... who are you? I am... me.
I don't feel special anymore. And I don't feel smart or bright or brilliant. I often feel like important knowledge has slipped my brain, knowledge that I might have known at some point in life, but that I was never aware of. Just gone. I don't make sense when I talk, but in a non-artistic way. I have no depth anymore, and I don't know why.
When I look at my LJ I feel it's empty and meaningless, filled with daily rambling that might as well go forgotten. Things I really think, that really move me are never put down to paper. I'm too lazy to write them down, too lethargic to really get a hold of them.
I always wanted to be a special someone. I wanted to be odd to people, I wanted to startle them, surprise them, fascinate them. I don't think I am. I'm just me. And I can't be that way. I'm nice and agreeable and just one of the crowd. I don't know if I like that... Sometimes I wonder if all that I had feared when I went into therapy has happened now. I feared that once I lost my darkest depressions, I'd no longer be an artist. I feared that I'd lose myself, lose something important. I feared that when I stopped seeing my own blood I'd stop seeing life. And somehow I wonder if that has happened now. I'm still depressed. A lot, even. But it's different. I know there's always someone, to hold me, to protect me. It's no longer that hopeless... But I don't feel like an artist anymore... Isn't that odd?
Two years ago I had made the resolution to write down one smart thought every day. I wonder what happened to that. I'm no longer smart now. I should have done it sooner it appears...
Life is meaningless when you no longer can decide whether the things you do are good or bad... when you need people to decide it for you and you're unable to believe it anyway...
I'm still not making sense. I should stop now.
I don't know myself anymore... say hello to me. Hello... it's me... who are you? I am... me.
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Date: 2003-01-20 02:25 pm (UTC)What matters is that you are happy, that you find peace right now, not that you´re special to other people or that you´re remembered in a hundred years. What matters is your own happiness, how you feel about your art. And you are special, to everyone who knows you, loves you, hates you. You are one of a kind.
Irreplacable and irrepressable. Don´t worry about creativity, it'll come back to you. You must remember, your art is your tool, not the other way around. *Hugs*
PS. On a less deep note, I just read that David Thewlis will play Remus! *digs up Total Exclipse DVD*
How do you feel about that?
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Date: 2003-01-20 02:36 pm (UTC)How do you feel about that?
*twitches convulsively and falls to the ground* Good God, no! Please! Please let this be a rumor! I mean, nothing against him, but he's ugly and he looks like a drunkard and I just can't see him as Remus!!! *cries*
*hugs* And thanks for your kinds words...
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Date: 2003-01-20 02:52 pm (UTC)Uhm... Are you sure you´re not thinking of him in Naked, Total Exclipse etc? I´ve seen some nice looking pictures of him, and he looked lovely in Seven Years in Tibet for instance.
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Date: 2003-01-20 02:56 pm (UTC)Gonna answer your mail soon and then go to bed! Just so that you know! *hugs*
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Date: 2003-01-20 03:18 pm (UTC)