there is definitely something wrong with me.
i miss johnny a lot lately. i think about a variety of thinks in the span of seconds, and he seems to keep cycling through my thoughts. i keep day dreaming about the last time i saw him. how i gave him a hug. when he asked sarah to prom, leaned over her at the end of the table. how i was looking at them, smiling, encouraging. the time i invited him over amandas house, and how he was so mad we called val. how i was in love with ilya, so bad it made my chest hurt.
i wish i could feel that way again.
i miss knowing he was around. i miss the times we spent together, i miss our conversations. i miss his laugh.
my brian is on hyperdrive, more normally than it usually is.
right now i miss driving by the cross on the side of the road. ever since i moved from the middle of nowhere, MA to satans butthole, MA, i can't go past his crash site and listen to jeff buckley. i can't do a lot of things.
besides lurking in the constant shadow of the concept of death, my mind has been elsewhere all day. i have been considering just staying up all night, but even as i type that sentence, my eyes seem heavier and heavier. there are no dogs in my room tonight.
and i also wonder how it would feel if i did what i actually wanted to do. i feel like the shell i created around myself doesn't allow the concept of love or exciting new possibilities enter it at all; rather i have become a vessel for favors and a shoulder to cry on. and when i cry, it seems worthless compared to the sorrows of others, my friends. i depend too much on myself, just as they all depend too much on me. i can't drive to get something for you, i can't drive you somewhere, i can't bring you food and i can't listen to your issues.
but obviously i can, and if i want to change, i still don't think i should stop. people need me, they need my dependability, my perfect timing. they need me to be there to know exactly what to say to diffuse a situation, to break up jake and amy's fight so they dont go to bed mad at eachother, to make cara feel included when she doesn't feel it. i need to be there to observe and correct people to make them feel better. without me, they would be as dark and lonely as i am feeling right now.