I’m always the other girl. I’m the one that’s not liked. Or ugly. Or weird. Or odd. Or socially dead. I’m the one you don’t want to be. The one that’s whispered about behind her back. THe one that’s ignored. That’s overlooked. That’s hated. That’s teased. That’s mocked. That’s isolated. The Other Girl. I don’t want to be, but I’m her. Every single time.
For once, just once. I just want people to see me as her. The one that’s liked. That’s loved. That’s pretty. That’s admired. That everyone wants to be around. That’s wanted. That you laugh with and not at. I just want to be her, and not the other girl.
I feel so stupid and incompetent. I feel like I can’t do anything right. My coach put me in a position I’ve ever played, never even practiced, and I sucked ass at it. I felt so so bad bc I was ruining things. So I was already beating myself down but not a lot bc I was like it was my first time it’s fine that I wasn’t good at it, I’ve never been taught how to do it so I was kinda doing it blind. But then my teammates were telling me how bad I was at it and how I shouldn’t play that position again and how the coach was stupid to put me in that position and telling me who should play that position instead. And now I feel stupid and am beating myself up and feeling like I can’t do anything. I feel so dramatic like they weren’t even being mean about it just stating the truth and I don’t want to feel sucky about it but I do and I feel so dramatic for it.
Why is it that the only time I feel worth anything is when I am helping others. Why do I feel so guilty and worthless when I am trying to pick up what little is left of me to even remotely fix. Why do I feel deeply hurt when others don’t accept my help? I’m still learning and growing, I know I can’t save everyone but…I always find myself reverting back to my old ways of wishing to help others instead of myself.
something about my sixteenth birthday makes me upset. maybe it’s the sense of unfulfillment i feel because i’m turning an age that should mean something or maybe it’s just because i’m getting older. i just feel like ive let down a younger me and that makes me feel upset. it takes too much energy not to cry whenever someone even mentions my birthday and thinking about the day looming closer and closer is enough to set me off. it’s embarrassing that i act and feel this way, i know a sixteenth birthday is something basically everyone loves. i’m just upset that i know i’ll never get to have the sweet sixteenth i’ve been dreaming of since i was a kid. it hurts me.
just out of curiosity bc some people I know with glasses can just go a few hours or a day without them and be chill but I need them on all the time or I’ll go crazy
something so fucked up about Chat Noir’s whole deal is that he is in a lot of ways Adrien playing a character. Like Adrien picked up his miraculous and was told he’d be a superhero so he was like “ok, time to act like a superhero!” and he lets himself have fun w it and play up the role and let loose and kind of just allow himself to be silly and goofy and have fun and for once in his life not care about performing Perfection™.
But. But none of the other characters KNOW THAT. So everyone just sees Chat Noir and is like “look at this guy’s ego. He’s so full of himself. Surely it’d be fair to knock him down a few pegs” without being aware of how few pegs he actually HAS. He’s like the “insecure character who overcompensates in ego” trope except he’s really not doing it unironically, he’s just having a fun LARP pretending to have self worth in his off-hours but nobody else is on the same page about it being a game and he refuses to tell them. He just dramatically pouts about it and lets them laugh and pretends like he’s not internalizing it and it is almost 3 am and my brain forced me to write this instead of sleeping I’m gonna take a melatonin