You know how this feels.

I really hate writing.  I didn’t always, but for the past few years I’ve noticed through my writing how self-absorbed, narcissistic, and insecure I am. It really makes me hate myself.  But really, I think everyone is this way, but I really hate noticing it.  For example, it’s really difficult for me not to talk about myself.  It just proves how personally I take everything – and I mean everything.  It can’t be healthy.

I’m a terrible writer, but there was a time when I thought I was the best thing ever. I’m really grateful for high school: if there’s anything I learned from English it’s how pretentious I am.  The reality is, I don’t know how to organize my thoughts and have it make sense to anyone but myself.  Again, this is just a reflection of how self-serving I am.  I tend to give up really quickly, or want to start over all the time.  It has a lot to do with why I never update anymore.

Another part is because I know that no one is going to want to read the boring shit that never really happens.  Everything I have to say whenever I feel like writing is usually self-loathing (no one wants to read that), trivial enough to post in 140 characters or less (so I do exactly that), or more effort to write about than it’s really worth (I give up half-way).  Anyone who knows me knows how terribly lazy I am, and I have such a difficult time getting across what I want to say.

There’s really no sequence.  It’s little more than a rant, and I want to do more than that, but rarely do.

That said, I’m not going to finish this post.  I had more to say, but I never finish what I mean to say.

I really, really hate writing.

Please don’t respond.  I always get over it.

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  • http://facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000088076491 Siiri

    I'm not going to follow instructions by responding. Too bad. =PYeah, I think people are basically the way you described. Except when I'm writing, I don't think of everyone else, I just think of myself ;D It's kind of paradoxical, don't you think, that people can be so into themselves but insecure at the same time? Like do we have a fascination with things that are pitiful? With a long ago friend of mine, we realized that he took things too personally, and I take things too seriously. Although, I think we were both wrong. Also, everyone else's lives seem to be more entertaining except our own. That's what it seems to me, at least. And I'm only interested in my life if I forgot what happened. Like when you look back at your diary or something, it seems so much more interesting'. I just realized that. Sometimes I publish things on facebook that are totally trivial, but I do it anyways because I don't care. It seems like everyone else gets away with being self-centered.Ok, I could go on and on because now I'm getting into some free association… stuff that should be saved for e-mails. xD

  • http://facebook.com/profile.php?id=25305853 Giancarlo

    Writing is inherently self-centered. How can anyone write anything without their own point of view? You can only see things through your own eyes. Everything we write, even if it is severely objective, can only be interesting if it is semi-autobiographical. To try and write from a different perspective, regardless of how noble it may be, is slightly disingenuous and less interesting. I've always thought you were an excellent writer. Those stories you wrote when you were younger had such style and power that were years ahead of anyone your age, or my age for that matter. If anyone is a terrible writer, it would be me. But I've found that the most honest writers touch the most people.P.S. I could be taking this out of context entirely, but I just thought I'd say something.