It's August. All my friends are leaving and, soon, this season won't feel real again. How I wish I could tell myself from three months ago not to sleep in so late so as to enjoy the morning dew on the grass and the carefree feeling of summer mornings, with so many possibilities ahead and no worries in wait. Now, I'm only met by syllabuses and goodbye 'til fall breaks.
Being a good person is so hard. I get it, I'm supposed to be the bigger person, I'm not supposed to do this and that, I need to be moral, but that often conflicts with my own self interest and I'm sorry, but life is too short to not be a little selfish sometimes.
i want to be inconvenienced by you. i want to wait for you, i want to hold your things while you do something else, i want to make adjustments to my plans to make space for you. someone at your side who takes up no space and has no needs of their own is not a person, but a shadow. i don't want a shadow, i want you. i want my life to be altered by your presence in it. please, inconvenience me.
I am but a simple girl; all I want is a cup of tea with honey, fruit smelling candles, a cat at my feet, and an answer to what my meaning in this world is.
Okay, tick, tick...BOOM! as a whole just wrecked me but this scene, especially this part in particular, really got me:
I relate to Jonathan so much throughout this movie (I could write a whole essay on that lol) but this part, specifically, hits especially close to home. The choked, "Actually, I'm right here." Ugh.
I'm a daydreamer. I want something more. I want bigger, grander things and I feel like I'm in some sort of chase for something. Something better. So I try not to focus on the bad things at hand. The rough things happening in the now. Hard decisions and relationships and tasks are all shoved aside in this search for something better than what I have.
But I'm aware of them. It might not seem like it, but I know all these awful things are there and all these hard choices I have to make are there. It's all there and I am here, having to deal with this monumental amount of things and it's all so overwhelming and so crushing that I just want to escape even more than I did before. And it's all a vicious cycle and I am here. Feeling stuck, searching for something new because reality is just so hard.
"I'm right here." I am feeling a mountain of emotions and dealing with a mountain of tasks. I am not a million miles away. I just wish I were.