I wish I didn't use this blog to only talk about my problems. I do have good moments, but I guess they don't stick with me as good as the bad times. I have this problem with guilt and shame. If I do something wrong, I dwell on it for a very long time. Some longer then others. Even if my action is very small. I wonder if it has something to do with pride because I am worried about how people view me. I don't want them to think I'm weak. I still feel very young.. you'd think I would get use to adult behavior towards me. I didn't spend my time playing when I was young, I spend time with a adults. I was ether at the museum volunteering, or going on backpacking trips with my mom, or just by myself writing and drawing.
When negative things happen to me, I feel homesick because I sometimes believe that my family are the only good people in the world and I am simply away from real and kind people and stuck here with the busy and grouchy ones. I wish I was back in Jinan, I felt very comfortable there with two wonderful people who didn't make me feel homesick, that was the first time I thought I could be away without feeling bad about myself because Laisi and her husband always had this loving look to them that made me feel like family.
This morning, I woke up and went upstairs to eat breakfast, but I felt I had to be careful because Kari was there. So I carefully got out a bowl and carefully opened the drawer to grab a spoon and carefully looked in the fridge... oh no, there was no milk in the fridge. It was sitting by Kari. "OVER HERE IS THE MILK" she said firmly. I walk over there and carefully grabbed the milk and than asked if she wanted me to put it away after I used it, (thinking, she might not be done with it.)
I got the cereal she had used and didn't know that I had just taken it out of her garbage pile because it was empty, so, without being careful I turned around to get the full box of Cheerios and accidentally left it there out of the pile. "YOU TOOK IT OUT OF MY GARBAGE PILE" she said ( as if being annoyed at be.)
I know I shouldn't get so offended, but it is because of those small moments that I feel I have sinned.
Sometimes I wish I could read peoples minds so that I would know to put back the cereal box, or know exactly where the milk was.
Yesterday had a moment I will never forget or maybe be able to forgive myself for. I lost an old Lady after getting too interested in president Monson's talk in the ensign. I always sit and read with her, but at that time I war reading, she got up and said she was going to look at her flowers. I usually fallow her around, but I figured she would do what she always did and come back to sit with me. She didn't.
I then thought she was using the bathroom (which she had don't allot that day) and would be out very soon. All of a sudden, her granddaughter walk in with a rage and tells me she had walked all the way to the corner alone and had to be driven back. "FALLOW HER PLEASE" she said. I apologized silently trying not to throw up with a horrible sickening feeling I had felt. I brought the old women inside and sat her down to watch some TV. I sat on the floor holding in tears and looking at the old lady once in a while with fear she would start running away suddenly, somehow. I never let her out of my sight again.
I didn't sleep very well last night and had dreams of Fernando. Just little snippets that don't mean anything, but I woke up with a faint headache and then remembered my crime. I cant get it out of my head. I prayed that Sandy would forgive me for losing her grandmother, but It didn't help very much.
I wish these stories would give people some wisdom, but I think it is more of a call out for wisdom for myself. I think this guilt and shame is actually a disease and I should go to a therapist or something, maybe even to my bishop, but I don't think this is a very common thing. It is what gives me the most stress, so I hope I will be able to stop thinking about things to much because it might really hurt me some day.
Hey Mads - interesting and honest post! I love it.
ReplyDeleteBTW, you're wrong. TONS of people have similar feelings about acceptance and stuff. It's good you're aware of it - now it's time to start practicing other options for how you react. *Anything* else will do, just to break the monopoly.
Also, your roommate who freaked out about the box being moved out of the "correct" pile is psycho! Okay, maybe not full blown, but if she said something like that to me, I would respond with, "Oh, really? Is it the end of the world, then? Don't freak out!" If I was feeling sarcastic, that is. Otherwise I wouldn't take her seriously at all because that's so ridiculous.
Oh, wait, I forgot that's not just a random roommate! Haha, she's not psycho, but hey, some people get particular and you still don't need to worry about their idiosynchracies. And now I must write this post anonymously :)
P.S. here's a VERY USEFUL FACT for anyone who worries about what others want and then feel shy or anything: PEOPLE WANT YOU TO BE ASSERTIVE AND SAY AND DO WHAT YOU WANT AND THINK.
ReplyDeleteYep. When you're all soft and squishy and indecisive, it makes them feel uncomfortable. It sort of forces them to relate to you in a similar way and they HATE that.
Get it? If you're strong and decisive, then it invites them to relate to you like THAT, and they love it.
I hope that helps :)
I love your honest, open blog posts. I'd say you're pretty darn brave no matter how you may sometimes feel.