You were the one who wanted me to move in with them, you were the one who wanted me back. You came to me with tears in your eyes and begged, and it worked. Now I know it was all an act. You want your Emmy? You want a fucking Academy Award? No, you want me to rebuild the World Trade Center out of toothpicks on a silver platter with a side of the world. I try my best around home, I do what you ask and more. Yet you still find an excuse to yell. I can't read your mind, you don't tell me what you want, and everything that goes wrong is my fault.
I know I haven't been perfect. Two pots of plants aren't doing well. Yes, they're overwatered. Excuse me for giving them water when its a hundred fucking degrees outside every day. Sometimes I miss things, am I expected to catch everything? No, I'm human. I will mistakes. But no, you're perfect, and its all my fault. Nothing can go wrong without my hand in it. When I ask you if I can do anything for you, not for me, for you, you condescend me for being insincere, and make it about me. I'm trying to help you, and when you yell at me because I'm not helping its because I don't know what to do. I can't read your mind.
Yes, what happened years ago was terrible. But its not an excuse now. How many times have you said that you alost died for me? How many times have you used that to make me feel horrible? You still blame that, you use it to get sympathy points from your "friends." Not even real friends, people who you tell lies to, creatig a group who hounds me at every turn.
Yes, my job doesn't pay minimum wage, I only work three days a week, but I'm helping smeone. Yes, I have a pretty easy job. I know you don't. So God forbid the one time I get sick and can't go I'm not critisized for it. You always complain of headaches, I know you have stress, I know you have trouble eating. But the one time I get sick, spend the night throwing up alone, that one time I'm the problem? Whenever I drive with you, you yell at me because I'm not good enough. I apologise we get there safe, I go the speed limit, or just a tick or two below it, I rarely pass others. Yet you critisize me because you have so much more experiance than I do. Never mind the fact you text and make calls while you drive, and act aggrressivly and put both of us in danger. I apologize for wanting to live. You're not the only one with stress, not the only one with problems.
And lets not forget your education, how it is oh so vastly superior to mine. Now, I have nothing against trade schools, we need them and the people who come out them with their skills. However, your trade school education isn't a fucking degree from Harvard. I pulled your high school transcripts: I have a higher GPA, I took harder classes, and... Oh, I don't know, earned a invitation to national acedemics competition in DC. What did you do in high school? You got pregnant and married an abusive asshole. Thats about it.
I tiptoe around my own home, no, its not even my home. I dont feel welcome here, I feel like a guest at best. I tiptoe around, I try to be as quiet as possible . I don't feel like I'm walking around eggshells, I'm walking throguh a minefield. I stay in my side of the house. I'msilent, and I write. And the one time I lose months of work and try to save it, I get yelled at. I'm sorry that I have a hobby, I'm sorry I choose to create and use my brain for more than just comprehending the pictures you thumb through mindlessly on Pintrest or Facebook.
Why am I still here? Because I care about you. I want to have a relationship. I'm trying to build a bridge, but you're burning down the trees, shutting down the factories, destroying the equiptment. I can't build a bridge.
My usual stress release tactics aren't working:
I shake, so when I go shooting I shake, the shaking throws off my aim, I miss the X Ring. I get angrier.
My Clan sucks. We go to war, I'll drop six stars against Town Halls higher than me, and we'll lose the war because of our rushed bases and ineffective attacks.
I don't want to burden my friends with my stress and problems. Its my load to carry, not theirs.For them, I put on a strong front. I want to be the one who they come to with their problems. I lie to them, tell them life at home is great. I lied to my coach about this, I lied to everyone about it. I don't wnt their sympathy, I want to help them, I don't want their help.
So I'm venting this out into the white noise of the internet. Who will read this? One or two people, then there will be a new page, and no one will read it after that. Do I want sympathy? No. Like I said before, my burden. I just needed to vent this, before I go Chernobyl.