I don't wanna forget so I'm writing it down.

Don't read this.

The boy that I used to date has a diary. I read it because, well, pretty much every entry has some sort of mention of me. Plus, I want to make sure that he's not stalking me or has plans to stalk me. I have valid reasons for this that I will not discuss here.

When we were dating he complained that I never wrote about him here (don't even look, I erased all entries with the slightest reference to him). Well, guess what. Now I am.

I would not normally give him the benefit of a reaction but one of his recent entries made me feel the need to have one. Here. He called all emo kids conceited, on the basis that they go to shows and sing along to songs by bands that most people don't know. The last time I checked, singing along to bands that you liked wasn't a crime. I guess singing along to bands on majors are ok, just not bands that are somewhat unkown. I guess showing support for indie bands that you like enough to learn the words to their songs, is conceited. So emo = conceited. He said that I was too conceited for him at times even though I was "shy". Just because you're quote emo you're conceited and just because you're shy you can't be?

Well he was a little too:
- angry
- manipulative
- brutally honest
- unconventional
- thin skinned

for me at times.

I wasn't going to elaborate on the topic of my last entry but now I will:

"The shake in your voice makes me feel empty and ugly
All scattered anger like a windstorm, howling violently
And I wanna fade out and wake up somewhere else
Where no face is familiar and I'm left by myself."
- Kevin Devine: Country Sky Glow

And that's what being in a relationship was like.

posted + 2004-08-03 at 11:36 p.m.

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