I would just like to have some final says, some final words, some final thoughts, and all that stuff, and I don't want anybody to think I'm emo here, because I'm seriously trying as hard as I possibly can from this point forward.
In the last two years or so, I've had stellar highs and wicked lows. I've seen people walk in my life, and I've driven people out of my life. I've hurt people, I've loved people, I've missed people, hated people, cried for people, laughed at people, and I have been an all around normal teenager with real teenager emotions.
2008 has been absolutely ridiculous for many people. I was really no exception. Growing up I was always a really bitter person because I never got along with anybody. I never let anybody in. I basically magnified that in 2008.
I blamed everybody else for my problems, my mistakes. I fucked up peoples lives in a way that I never imagined myself capable of. I let myself get the best of me, and I failed at a lot of things I wanted to achieve.
I've been jealous, I've been cruel, I've been an epic homewrecker and I took on this new perspective of doing unto others, but this time it was just whatever I felt like doing, rather than how I would like to be treated.
I've done things I am not proud of. I acted way out of line and very hypocritical. I even had a string of weekends where I would get wasted every Saturday night just because I wanted to. I've spent too many days rollin' and way out of it and that is something I never expected to do. It's something I still did not enjoy doing, even as I did it.
As much as I might hope, wish or even try to stop it, people come in your life and people leave. It's something everybody has to deal with. When you lose a friend over something that you did, it is your responsibility to try to make it work. If you do not, you are not a good friend and do not deserve to have them in your life. This time it was not my place to try. I made the mistakes, but after so long you have to realize things are just better the way they are. I have completely accepted it now, from everybody I've lost. It's what was meant to be, and instead of making it everybody else's problems, I am doing my best to run with what I am given and better myself.
I want to be a true best friend to Kmae. I have been so wrong and mean to her and that is one of the things I regret most. When she needs me most, I turn my back. She doesn't even come to me when she has a problem anymore because she says she knows I don't like to hear about her problems. Somehow she still sticks around and is so good to me.
I hope that someday I will be able to make up what I did to everybody I fucked with in 2008. Two people have already forgiven me. These people and I are friends - something I never, ever expected and I am very grateful for that. There is a list of other people that I would like to make amends with. Sometime in the future, I'll probably be showing up, so expect that.
I am in such an awkward place in my life right now. It's my last teenage year, but that doesn't mean that I am miraculously cleared of teen angst when I turn 20. That is something I have to work at. In fact, I'm completely convinced I have to work harder than most others. I was raised to be hostile because that's the only way my family and I could ever get by. But I don't want that anymore. I want to be able to be happy for myself and for others. I do not want to be the green-eyed monster Iago warned about. I want to do away with jealousy in my life.
I somehow want to find a way to make new friends. It is so hard for me to open up these days. The older I get, the more reclusive I become. I think the last person I made an effort to befriend was Tyger however long ago, and we all know I fucked that one up hard. But people learn from their mistakes and move on. Now I need to find friends to whom I can be a good friend in return.
Lately I had been just dying to move back to Florida because I was growing so sick of Las Cruces. But in all reality, I am just sick of this mess I've made of things, and I am not moving back to Florida just yet. I am going to stay here, finish school like a responsible person would, get another job, learn to play the game of life and do it.
I want to do away with all of my negative feelings. I want to be more responsible in everything I say and do and I just want to be the best person I can for 2009.
With all that said, my LiveJournal is now Friends Only, so you will no longer be able to read anything I write if you are not on my friend's list. We'll keep it on this happy, inspirational note. Have a great day.