Hey! I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to live my life.
The laptop’s fan needs a bit of a clearing up.
There are these ideas that I have but then there is this set structure of each day in my head and I don’t mean a set structure as in something akin to a daily routine where you wake up and brush your teeth and have breakfast. I mean that there is a set structure of each day in a sense that I can never reach “One day” where I’m doing the things I’ve always wanted to do. Where my life looks completely different because all the small choices I’ve made differently from what I was expected to make have led to a life that is unrecognizable to my fears about adulthood.
I talk in hypothetical and never really in particulars. I know. But that is because everything I encounter is never about that thing in particular. Why I get so mad at people staring at me or why I feel like change is impossible or why I dislike people who move my stuff without asking me - none of these are simple answers. The answer to each question that pertains to me is all of me. I am a stack of cards - not a house because there isn’t any coherent structure to me, but I am a stack of cards and the 6th card is the 6th because it is not the 36th. I am a circle and all the points in a circle are making me up and if you pointed at one then I’d be a point and I have no points to make because I’m a circle.
Wow. I’m making a lot of sense to me right now but I don’t really know what to do with it.
I want to live each day consciously, active, and exploring. That is what I want to do with my life on a day to day basis.
But I can’t be active because other people’s decisions (read: family’s) decisions impact my life. So, I can be conscious and I can explore? Apparently not. It is a triangle with the horizontal side being autonomy.
But is autonomy a valid expectation? Is it justified for me to expect autonomy?
How much autonomy is justified?
How long will I live?
What is stopping me from living how I want to? Why am I reluctant to live how I want to? Will I ever become the person who breaks away to be themselves? Is it justified for me to be myself? Aren’t I dependent in more ways than one on others? Wouldn’t it be cruel to take away the support I offer others because it inconveniences me?
What should I do?
What should I do?
What will I do?