All The Depression

Like nothing was real, and everything was wonderful.

A Study In Quandary

I was afraid to ask. I didn’t know which outcome I honestly wanted, and feared I would despair at any response. 

However, Will noticed that I was avoiding something because of fear. Therefore, we decided to take immediate action. Scourge coiled lightly in my belly, looking up at me with uncomfortable eyes.

Questions take no time to ask. Answers are seldom hard to receive. 

I stand in a storm. The clouds are gray and black, and swirl about me. They are full of unheard sound, raging potential. My question strikes the storm, becomes the wind that billows them around. 

The answer returns like thunder, shaking me with its sureness, its existence.

Go back to him.

Sometimes, I Remember

I recall occasionally. I know it, underneath everything else. Life is a process, an attempt, to forget it. However, as one would expect, life is shit at managing it.

I need to die. There’s no direct reason. It’s not because my body fucks up attempts at sex. It’s not because my life points directly towards a path of loneliness. It’s not because I’m gay, pagan, white, middle class, mediocre, understanding, kind, intelligent, or anything else. Nothing but one clear, decisive cause.

I am alive.

It is a horrible way to be. Plenty of people here write stories about demons and other mysterious beings wanting in. Honestly, I suspect that if they exist, they are here, and they want out. And I wouldn’t blame them for a second.

The world is breaking me.

I need a quiet place to rest from my thoughts. Somewhere to huddle and forget why everything hurts.

Water Consumption

Each time is when I go to get a new glass of water.
  1. 2:35 AM
  2. 3:08 AM
  3. 3:30 AM
  4. 4:12 AM
  5. Milk - 5:00ish AM
  6. 5:29 AM
  7. 7:00 AM
  8. 8:05 AM
  9. 9:22 AM
  10. Cup of tea
  11. Cup of different tea
  12. Cup of coffee
  13. 11:00 AM
  14. 11:54 AM
  15. 12:47 PM
  16. 12:25 PM
  17. 1:59 PM
  18. 3:03 PM
  19. 6:13 PM
  20. 6:32 PM
  21. 8:28 PM
  22. 10:45 PM

Dissent ==> Fuck Paltry

When concepts turn into concepts, stuff is fucking weird?

Like the sound that I make on my keyboard, I can “see” it like little waves that don’t go very far. My music is louder, but it doesn’t go all that far. And I am sitting here, and I can feel the whole universe just surrounding me, massive and vast and making the sound around me seem small and meaningless by comparison. Which it is.

It’s like if I was god, and I wrote the saddest story ever told, and that was this world.

Question: 30
Began: 1:45am
Completion: 2:09am
Question: 31
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Completion: 2:25am
Question: 32
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Completion: 2:35am
Question: 33
Began: 2:36am
(I've just been staring at this.)
Completion: 3:08am
Question: 34
(Food break.)
Began: 3:33am
Completion: 3:44am
Question: 35
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Completion: 4:02am
Question: 36
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Completion: 4:38am
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Question: 46
Began: 4:47am
Completion: 4:49am
Question: 47
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Completion: 4:52am
Question: 48
(I am secretly horrified that these simple questions will end. Really a bit more worried than should be reasonable.)
Began: 4:53am
Completion: 5:00am
Question: 49
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Completion: 5:05am
Question: 50
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Completion: 5:10am
Question: 51
Began: 5:11am
Completion: 5:16am

Letter to Midnight

Good evening, Midnight.

It would seem you carry a slightly depressing atmosphere this evening. How will you treat me, on this after-yesterday date?

Will you invite Fading along, or perhaps your good friend Languid? We do enjoy their company.

Is it just that you hate my new acquaintance? Is Math really so terrible, that you will bring his enemies on our date so he will be abused and crawl under the couch, sobbing?

I fear that I will have to break up with you, if you insist on scaring away my company. I love you, dear. Please, don’t push me away, don’t push my company away.  

HOLY FUCK

Why the hell is there 65 questions in the next homework!? That is so unnecessary! How dare you!? I can’t believe I thought it would make sense to learn all of Statistics in about three weeks. Shit… The rest of them better not be like this. I have to do two double days already, I think… I wonder how many questions the Midterms have…

Also it is really late. I need to go to sleep so I can do this shit tomorrow. Oh, dogged persistence, join me in my quest for statistical completion these coming WEEKS. Sigh… Midterms have 50 questions it would seem. I hope the test for this next homework doesn’t have as many questions.

Diamond: The thing is that I can't really distinguish that from mental illness and it sounds like, neither can you. Plenty of people don't think they are mentally ill but are. What I can say is that they tend to not tell you to do things that are too worrying. This isn't too far from a decision someone could make logically. But I also tend to think that "good" outcomes and "bad" outcomes often depend on your outlook. If you are expecting good then you'll look for it and the same with bad. Also coincidences. I believe in those. Enough coincidences justify beliefs.
Diamond: Sometimes it gets fucking ridiculous. Delude yourself enough and you start thanking god your car keys are where you left them
Me: Also, the things aren't always right. I generally assume that is because of my fallibility? That I didn't hear them correctly, or that I made myself hear what I want to hear. It is not a completely illogical possibility, considering the method employed to access the information. But that is the sort of thing stupid religious people do...
Me: And I totally get what you are saying. This is also incorporated into my Quandary based worries...
Me: I both don't believe in coincidences, and I do. More Quandary.
Me: I am all up in arms, because current day logic says I am probably a crazy, but a lot of me just goes "But what if I am right?"
Me: What if I am right?
Me: It's a really big question, and almost scarier than going to the therapist. It's like therapy/getting drugged is actually a cop-out? That all this magic that I have been gifted with, I am not strong enough for it, and I am giving up on it.
Me: It's also a sort of declaration that I don't believe in my own magical abilities, and that is a huge blow to my magic and also my state of mind.
Me: I have generally just gone "Well, fuck it. I don't like the world anyway, so if I am right, it is better and stuff is awesome, and if I am not, I get to go crazy and not be as bothered by how horrible life is."
Me: But I also desperately want the truth.
Me: And Quandary goes "It is all truth."
Me: And that is hard to handle, and since the world is an asshole, I wouldn't at all be surprised if I am right with both of my viewpoints, and that doesn't even make sense.
Diamond: :\
Diamond: I don't know. Lots of people think they know things and it gets them in trouble. I don't care which possibility strikes me as more awesome; it's the one that strikes me as more true. That is super objective though. I do not trust straight answers or black and white. Anything that relieves me of responsibility doesn't seem like a thing to trust.
Me: Also, I know that I will likely find right and wrong where I expect it. But generally things get pretty clearly bad? And there is always good in things and bad in things, and it is hard to be discerning? It really depends on your viewpoint, and I am not sure whether I am being optimistic, pessimistic, clear, or whatever. It seems that coincidence lies on the side of me being correct, and that's why I keep believing in things? Also, the feeling of it is sort of intense, and was nothing like what praying was like when I was a Christian. This makes me more inclined to believe it, but also more worried about mental illness.
Diamond: Show your work?
Me: I am that way too. The problem is, and the basis behind Quandary, is that each seem EQUALLY TRUE. Both are a little scary. So for now, I have been "going" with the more awesome of the two. And honestly, I just sort of hold onto both ideas and worry. I would move forward in both of them, if I could, but I have been specifically instructed not to. Honestly the logic view is sort of black and white, and that is one of the reasons I distrust it. And with both of them, I am relieving myself of different responsibilities. With the magical view, I am responsible for things that have been given to me. I have a destiny, and I need to make it there. In the logic view, I have myself and the well being of my friends and family to worry about, and I won't be able to do anything for myself or others if I go crazy.
Me: And you want me to cite occurrences that I have aligned with the directions given to me by the things?
Diamond: Yes.
Diamond: Also how is the logic view black and white?
Me: Magic doesn't exist and I am pretty clearly insane. There is no real give for psychic occurrences. I am not sure if this is technically logical, but when I am in the mindset that doesn't include/believe what is up is magic, it is like that, and that is what I am calling the logic view? Because logic gets all shuffly around these things.
Me: And I will attempt to drudge up things.
Diamond: No. That isn't logic as much as skepticism. And not really that either.
Me: Well, logically, both options are liable to be true, depending. There are high numbers for both sides.
Diamond: That most certainly isn't how I do logic.
Diamond: High numbers?
Me: By high numbers I mean that there are plenty of signs pointing towards good ol' schizophrenia, and there are also lots of signs pointing towards magic. I should try to make lists...
Me: One clear memory is how I knew I wasn't supposed to get an apartment with my boyfriend in Missouri. But I firmly changed the course of things. That bombed, with the failing of the relationship, the loss of some friends, the loss of my apartment and also my individuality. I technically also lost my job. Some of that may have happened anyway, of course. I had grown sick of my job. But the life at the apartment was definitely not good for me, and there was plenty of bad, just within that. My magic also stalled there, even though I should have had a increased ability to practice and grow.
Let's see... something good... I believe they told me to come back here? Which was good and bad. It ended the nightmare apartment situation, but I also spent a lot of time not doing shit.
Me: See, I check so often that it's not a huge thing everytime?
Me: So sometimes it is a decision to do this thing before that thing, and then it works out really nicely or something.
Me: And there's also the possibility that I am avoiding something by following the directions, and then I don't ever know about it.
Me: And that's completely unprovable and also frustratingly sounds like bullshit.
Diamond: Hmm... That seems wishy-washy to me. You also have the power of regular ol logic. Also I take it back I believe in black and white. Things are true or they aren't. Just things/people who try to quantify it that way are usually wrong.
Diamond: ...
Diamond: Huh.
Diamond: So.
Diamond: I believe in truth.
Diamond: At least right now.
Diamond: Huh.
Me: Huh.
Me: I don't think I believe in truth.
Me: I think everything is sort of...
Me: Respective?
Me: Like... not specifically exact.
Me: I believe in science and things...
Me: Like, a+b=c stuff.
Me: But there is a whole mess of stuff that doesn't fall into things?
Me: I don't know.
Me: I sort of believe in absolute truth, and with all of the knowledge and technology, we would be able to understand all the things.
Me: Like with what is going on with me.
Me: I do and I don't, and that is the problem with things.
Me: I am Quandary about basically everything.
Me: I see and believe most of the viewpoints.
Me: I can see most viewpoints, but a lot of them are dumb.
Me: I don't know.
Diamond: Remember the religion Truth believes in?
Me: I think so...
Me: Explain?
Me: (again)
Me: Man, I like talking about my things, but it's hard to back up my points because I both believe in them and don't?\
(10: 36:38 PM) ***Me drinks a gin and tonic.
Diamond: She believes that there is one huge truth and that is god. And truth is unknowable. And you can't really tell the truth. Only bits and pieces.
Me: That makes enough sense to me. Did you know that that is sort of the basis for most religions? All of the other stuff is like trying to figure out different pieces of that truth?
Me: Maybe that is a generalization...
Me: But I see that in a lot of things, and people take it too far, way too far.
Me: It should be just sort of a peaceful knowledge gathering?
Diamond: I don't know. Everyone seems to do it dumb.
Me: A lot of them do.
Me: Some don't.
Me: They are rare gems.
Me: I sort of do it that way? That is why my "gods" are just different sorts of energies, and I don't really worship them. I just learn things and then keep learning things. They are a rather similar pursuit to archetypes.
Me: I don't hold anything about this being more truthful than that, because how the fuck could I say that I am the only one who knows stuff? There is lots of things for knowing and they won't all be mine!

A Tentative Explanation

The things vary, I am not always talking/listening to the same thing. Sometimes, I am talking to my spirit guides. I have 3 I talk to occasionally. (I am supposed to talk to them more.) One is humanoid, one is a raven and another is an owl. The humanoid reminds me of Sphere. I am usually referring to something else when I say “things” though. It is usually a sort of awareness thing? Like… I feel out into the universe for what is correct? I take the idea, and “ask” about it, and it comes back as right or wrong. I can ask why, but that is a little more difficult. It’s similar to the Golden Road thing. I know what needs to happen, and if I keep doing it things will go as they are supposed to. I can ‘check’ what things are on that road, and what are not. There are several ways I picture it. It can be the Golden Road idea, or it can be the universal tapestry thing. My fate is laid out before me, and I am a thread of the universe. If I change from where I am supposed to go, the threads are tangled for a while because of it, causing snags and knots that hold me back. And I can, if I feel like it, take the idea offered by Homestuck, because the picturing is really for me, while the same fundamentals still apply. I could be talking to horrorterrors, and when I don’t do what I say they bite or slap with tentacles into my life.

All In A Minute

Oh my god, this is all so confusing, I should see a therapist, this cannot be good for my brain. But they told me not to see a therapist. When I don’t listen to them stuff goes wrong. Oh? First off, you’re listening to ‘voices’ (loose term) who are siding with your fears. Second, you’re doing that baseless paranoia thing where “things will just… go wrong,” if you don’t listen to them. That is so classical schizophrenia it’s not even funny. Fuck. Shit. It super is… But, what I am doing is also totally accepted by the magical community? It is a religion/culture thing that actually seems to work? We both know that there have been plenty of correlations between following or not following what the things tell me to do, and whether or not stuff goes well. But it’s all in your head! You’re are skating on thin ice! No one, especially not you, would be able to tell the difference between schizos and what you’re doing! Well, maybe the schizos are doing the same thing, and it has been magic the whole time. You have got to be shitting me. Would you listen to yourself? SCHIZOIDS ARE NOT MAGIC, they are ill. Some of them probably just had all this fucking confusion, and THAT is what drove them nuts. All your arguments are baseless. God dammit, but MAGIC. We have all been experiencing the shit out of that forever! Could we really have been this bad our whole lives? Are we getting worse? “We have all been experiencing the shit out of that forever,” is another good reason to see a therapist, you crazy. Hush. You aren’t even sure about your argument. That doesn’t stop it from being a good argument. We also understand that magic isn’t a logical thing, and doesn’t lend well to argumentation. Not the actual magic part. We could argue about how to rituals and spells, but that isn’t magic and we know it. Magic is the wild wind that blows between worlds, and doesn’t have anything to do with human logic at all. Maybe if they drug me up, or lock me up (@_@ DDD:), I will lose my abilities. All of the things we can do… Everyone thinks we are kind and talented. Maybe a little naive and underexposed. Which is crazy, because oh here it comes. LIGHT BLACK ==> Arise. Well, the world really is pretty terrible, would you look at that? Also, sure magic but whatever. Nothing really matters. But it does. And doesn’t. >_>_>__> Aggg, EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL IS UGLY. *wild swinging and coexisting* Look at all of that magic, look at all that emptiness. The world is a hollow heartbeat, and it flows like knives through me.