Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Beast

4/3/11
I have kept a beast locked up inside of me for a long time. A beast that survives on love and pain.

I let my guard down long enough for someone sneak in and pick the lock to it's cage. Now this beast is out, and it's kicking my ass. I can't even fight back. Maybe part of me doesn't want to fight back. Should I at least try to fight this beast? Should I try and put it back in it's cage? Do I let it continue to kick my ass? Or do I leave it out and try and control it? I'm not sure I can control it even if I tried.

It is a mighty beast.

What is this beast? This beast is my emotions, my feelings. It is that which I have kept buried for so long, so long that I almost forgot I had this beast. It seemed easier to bury everything so I wouldn't have to hurt, wouldn't have to feel pain. I tried to starve the beast.

The opposite of love is not hate, it is pain. A person can hate without ever loving. But a person cannot feel pain without first loving. This beast demands love, and as long as I kept it in it's cage I could starve it. Now that it is out, it will be fed.

I have always had problems bonding. I think it was because I was taken from my grandparents when I was nine. I had spent my entire life with then, they were my parents. Since then I have felt it was better not to get too close to anyone for fear I would have to feel what I felt when I was taken from them. Besides my grandparents, I could count the number of people I have bonded with on my fingers; Allen, Rick, Dani, Chris, Jessica, and Aaron.

Even if I wanted to put this beast back in it's cage I'm not sure I have the strength, I have drained myself just trying to keep it locked up for so long. But I'm afraid if I don't do something it will keep kicking my ass. The question now is do I attempt to put it back in it's cage? Or do I try and control it?

What will this beast do to me? I don't know, only time will tell. But I feel I must defeat it, or die trying.
"Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person."
-Ayn Rand

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