When have you been the most happy?
Posted on Dec 19th, 2008
by
AngelosPsycho
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for December 18, 2008:
I was in his arms. It wasn't that, really, that made the moment, but it was icing on the cake. I had just gotten to college, and was about to give up on a major in music therapy. The intro class was just not going to work out that well, the teacher did not think I could cure anything with it, it was only a treatment, she wouldn't look at it any other way, and just generally she was resistant to any of my thoughts or views. And I was about to fail her class, with no hope of return, and very little hope of being able to try again. It was looking essentially the end of my hopes to use my music and my psychology together, in what I felt was a very natural calling. I hadn't gotten into music school, the reason I had come to that particular university in the first place, I had canceled a record deal because the publisher just couldn't seem to understand that not all music had to have a strong bass drum beat to sell, and I certainly wasn't going to add drums to my songs- especially "Weary". It's too close to me, and anyway very inappropriate for drums. My math class, a subject in which I had never gotten below an A on in my life, was suddenly getting almost failing test grades. I had hurt my head pretty badly a little while before, in the back left, and as such my sight was being impaired... I was thinking at the time. I was looking at not being anything that had defined myself so much before. I was the counselor and people weren't seeking me out anymore. I felt worthless. I remembered my aunt telling me I was, reminding me how I was less than the dogs, how I was to blame for my uncle's heart attack, how I was a rebellious miscreant and didn't deserve to have kids in the future, how she wouldn't wish that on any innocent life such as a baby's... it kept going.... and the guilt left over that was self-imposed... survivor's guilt.... I had been the one they came to for permission to pull the plug on my dad... I was alone. Add to this the fact these insecurities made me feel like my boyfriend didn't deserve me, like he deserved something better. I wondered why he stayed. It made me worry constantly that he was about to break up with me, and was just waiting for a more delicate time, like the last one. And then there was the thing I perceived as the ultimate failing in myself, that if he found out he would leave for sure on the account of- something so strong that I had never shared it with anyone before.
He finally got me to tell him almost everything on my mind. And then he set to work. First, he argued along the lines of my aunt being a nutcase so who cares what she thinks, and the producer guy being lousy as well, and pointing out the fact that since I had just gotten to college, there wasn't anybody trusting enough yet to seek me out. Fine on that last point, that was enough for that one. I had severed most of my ties to high school when I left by simply going to a rival area's university, but also by simply being far away and busy. But this wasn't enough. He hadn't hit upon why he was still with me, or why he came to me in the first place- was it my body? The fact that I wasn't the stereotypical dumb blonde? I knew he hated girls that seemed weak- so why the hell was he still with me? I still thought my secret shame would drive him away. Also, there is just not really that much getting around survivor's guilt of this type, esp. not alone... there was just so much left, I couldn't seem to cheer up at all. He kept pressing for the rest of it, and he got it, including the darkest of secrets. His answer to me, and the moment that finally made me believe tears of joy existed, I will never be able to fully thank him for. In one fell swoop he told me why he stayed, showed me my inner strength that had been so obvious to him and that I was losing touch of, and turned my dork secret into a virtue. I will still not tell. It still stings, even if only a little bit. But, I finally felt at peace with everything. I had no secrets. We had already talked through the rest of them. After almost a decode of horror and pain, I was feeling true love- the one thing I had been missing the most, that I needed the most- and not just outside of myself, but deep within me, so that my whole being felt washed in the flood of tears that ensued. He gave me reasons that were completely dependent on me as to my worth. But, love just can't be replaced by something else. Love and a wake up call was all he gave and all I required. And I will never forget it.

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