The Choice

I’m in a bad way

My sleep­ing sched­ule is upside down. I’m lovesick. I’m heart­bro­ken. I can’t eat any­thing with­out shit­ting blood. My lips are chapped. My teeth keep graz­ing my canker sore. I’m break­ing out. I’m dread­ing anoth­er day of work.

These are the times I tru­ly feel alone. I’ve nev­er been very good at tak­ing care of myself.

But I’d still rather be alone, than be with you.

5 comments

  1. I know exact­ly how you feel, just that I direct my feel­ings toward some­thing more sub­stan­tial, a place where they tru­ely belong and not to mis­ery.

  2. yikes. that sounds harsh. good luck get­ting through this. I wish you all the best :)

  3. I’m wor­ried about the blood part. Are you sure noth­ing is seri­ous­ly wrong? That does­n’t sound like diet.…

    I believe men should have some­place they go where they get put back togeth­er. I guess it used to be fish­ing or moun­tains or some­thing, for some of them I knew. There have to be new inven­tions for the mod­ern male to repair and warm up and come back to him­self…

    Have you con­sid­ered not stay­ing there at home for a day or two? or vis­it­ing John or some­thing?

  4. I hope the blood part is just a metaphor that you use. In chi­nese med­i­cine, gen­er­al dis­com­fort caused by ulcers in the mouth, prob­lem sleep­ing, chapped lips, con­sti­pa­tion, acne are all symp­toms of what they call a con­di­tion of “heat”, I bet you have exces­sive sleepy dust as well—and bad breath too? They usu­al­ly treat it with a bit­ter herbal ton­ic call “24 herbs”. Otherwise, just take tonnes of water, and fruits.

  5. @Robert Jakobson — It’s hard to say whether I direct my feel­ings to mis­ery. All I know is that it’s hard to for­get about the pain I’m in. A bad habit, I know, but not an easy one to break.

    @J. — Thank you.

    @Xibee — Nothing is seri­ous­ly wrong; my doc­tor says some blood in the stool is nor­mal, I just need to con­trol my diet until my stom­ach set­tles down. I know it’ll pass, but it sucks not being able to eat what I want.

    I think golf­ing, fish­ing, or even dri­ving are activ­i­ties used by the mod­ern man to repair. The prob­lem is that they can take so much time. It’s dif­fi­cult to com­mit with todays fast-paced lifestyles.

    I’ve def­i­nite­ly con­sid­ered going away, but I’m too much of a crea­ture of habit and com­fort to do it right now (not to men­tion that I could­n’t afford it). But I can tell that very soon, when the spring whether sets in, that I’ll crave a change of sur­round­ings.

    @Uncle Joe — I tend to eat too much “hot” or “yang” food. I haven’t noticed too much sleep dust or bad breath, but I would­n’t be sur­prised if that was true. I should look up this ton­ic or drink more lingzhi. I used to eat a lot of fruit every day (my stom­ach won’t be able to han­dle it for a few days), but water and mithi chai tea is help­ing cleanse my sys­tem right now.

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