Lunes, Hunyo 17, 2013

Season's end

15 June 2013

Most times, my mind is buzzing and hazy.  Unhappiness changes people. My downgrade from cloud 9 was unprecedented. I have gone unannounced and to unknown depths is where I am now.

At most times I am impatient with myself for having to zonk out.  My brain must be super tired. It refuses to think, to analyze, to listen. What it wanted was to be by itself, placidly entering the plaza of nothing, being attended to and demanding gratification. It was on a shut-down day off for system maintenance against my will. Was that physiological or psychological? I was actively thinking, I would do this and I would go there. The muted brain countered: “Do so at your own risk. You know very well that I am running on minimal power, you’ll end up messing things up and tiring me more from your anxiety, incapacity and feelings of assimilated rejection.  I will shut you down so you wouldn’t resist.” It invariably puts itself, and me to sleep. I end up dozing off in the most unexpected moments in the office and at home. My mind was saying, “Please let me off from thinking that matter, I’d rather sleep.” And so it happens, beyond my assent and contrary to my will.

It can’t recuperate quickly with real life changes that were happening. For example, Sam has to repeat statements about twice before I get to answer her. Or, I forget something I just said or something I just did. It is frustrating especially when I’m in my competitive mode and the rest of me do not cooperate. These self-glitches heap up on each other; I was almost always expecting myself to be wrong regardless of what I did.

That hazy time-out mindset came upon me while I was typing this, I had to sleep. Only got back now to completing this entry.

Baclaran is a spiritual fortress. The traffic-extended jeepney commute, the lengthy discussion where I poured out all that I had to say that was bothering me for five months now, the amusement in the driver’s eyes as he was overhearing our conversation though he misdirected us by sentencing us to walk on the one pm sun-scorched path to Baclaran church while he knew very well that he was leading his jeepney to where a shaded path to the church, the magnificent calming presence in Baclaran church, the lit candles on the praying section; I would go on and on in enumerating. A hand was leading me I felt what I was going through was orchestrated by someone more powerful than all that there is, not an accident I had to pass through in drudgery where the days piled on each other unremarkably next to the overwhelming pain of self-annihilation and crushing alienation.

My mood dipped down after I thought I was cheated. I perceived that everyone was intending to cheat on me after Sam and I purchased her two pairs of black school slacks and the lie only a fool would fall for about the selling price of the mold spiced sapsap tuyo. My extreme supposition then: it really was tiring to live; people have the intention of cheating each other.

I was on my fastidious bacteria mood as Micai called it. I wouldn’t grow in environments that were unresponsive to my needs. I was refusing to adapt. It was tiring to live without understanding anything and where trying to understand meant sorrow.

God was letting me be cheated or feel cheated to test my faith. I lacked faith. I no longer believed in anything other than the truth that God exists though to me, all light was extinguished. Living was tedium because it was hard for me to believe in myself and others other than my direct workplace superiors.

They somehow had a terrorizing effect on me. I am but a civilian, a casualty was what I became. I am conscious I am on the brink of being insane if I push on with being my beloved and much admired convenor’s research assistant. I placed myself too much under their authority, all of me was stifled and my poor soul bore the brunt of crushing castigation and self-reproach. The insides of me were being demolished, much to my dismay and to my disservice to self, with the legal arrangements signed, consented and led by me.

It was to my relief that my heart has opened up. I will not rush myself to get better again. Instead, I will surround myself with people whom I love and care for most. I will discover things that I might love and put my focus on. Mom said I should leave work because I am overworked. I say not, I am not overworked, I am overstressed and it’s keeping me from working well.

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