/bangs head

I’m frustrated and not sure what to do about it. Wanting something doesn’t make it so.  Waiting for it to be so changes my viewpoint.  I’m second guessing everything I do and that kind of spoils the whole thing for me.  I’m afraid I’m losing the original spark waiting for something to happen that can’t be cultivated. I want you Scout…I want you wholeheartedly and without reservation.  I don’t want to wait.  I don’t want to take a back seat. It’s that simple. I’m not myself when I’m trying to stay reserved…I’m SURE that’s not the person you want.

Unlearning old tricks.

I’ve been single for a very long time. 6 years. That’s amazing to me. I’ve molded myself into a self sufficient drone that plods through his daily life without need for expression beyond the internal dialog that reassures me that “I’m fine.” I feel very much like clay that’s been molded into a specific shape and long since dried leaving cracked corners and such. This whole time I was still thinking about love and what it would be like, but the safe fantasy of it all wasn’t in my reach and I was ok with that…maybe even glad. In the …