{"id":1088,"date":"2017-01-15T12:10:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T09:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danieliusg.lt\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2021-09-28T18:38:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T15:38:25","slug":"laiskas-apie-vaika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debesyla.lt\/uzrasai\/en\/2017\/letter-about-child\/","title":{"rendered":"A letter about the DEMANDING child inside me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Daily target: 308<a style=\"border: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/debesyla.lt\/uzrasai\/en\/issukis-365\/\">\u00a0words<\/a>. Written: <b>622<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.15em;\">This letter is not intended for anyone. If it so happens that you read it, it means that it came out sincere and transparent enough to show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Have you been listening to me - how much attention do I need?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I answered, it seems, simply - I need a hell of a lot of attention. And at the same time I don&#039;t know if really.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026And it&#039;s true - I don&#039;t know how much attention I need because I don&#039;t know the measure of it.<\/p>\n<p>But I know it is needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I have no idea whether this is good or bad.<\/p>\n<p>I like attention.<strong> I am like that.<\/strong> I love it when my letters are read. When they are answered. I love that you notice what I share. And when he comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>I just ask myself:<\/strong>\u00a0is it ok that i need attention that some people can&#039;t give? Is it okay to ask for more of it than they manage to share?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Let&#039;s say:<\/strong> I wrote to you two or three days ago. A lot. And I ended with a request - write an answer. Write a letter. write<\/p>\n<p>I begged, as if a dying man were begging Mr. Death for a second chance. (Two out of three!)<\/p>\n<p>And I don&#039;t know why I did it - after all, four days and a little over a month ago, I didn&#039;t ask for it at all. And now please.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Is this just such a period? Similar to Jurassic, Triassic and others?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A time when I feel heavy and weak and need support more than usual? Someone who would surprise, amuse, open up, be right, love and comfort?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Although it is possible that such periods are not new to me.<\/strong> If you can call them that. I remember asking for answers in the past. A day, two... I didn&#039;t get them.<\/p>\n<p>Enough\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026I used to get angry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I was furious.<\/p>\n<p>More because of my own weakness and condescension than because of other people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I was backing away.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If you can&#039;t punch a hole in the wall, back off. And try later. Maybe there&#039;s something holding you back that you can&#039;t change.\u201d \u2013 My strategy that I use not only in video games, but also in relationships. Or at least I used to.<\/p>\n<p>After a while it got better again and I lived happily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I don&#039;t know how long.<\/p>\n<p>After all, it is so difficult to notice that you are living independently when the line between power and control is so thin. When you don&#039;t know what is right and what is wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For example, should I show you this email? Should I send it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">After all, I wrote a letter about love. And you are not his yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">After all, I have written messages. And you didn&#039;t answer them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">After all, I say that I love*. And you not.<\/p>\n<p>(*That&#039;s not exactly what I mean here. But you probably get the idea.)<\/p>\n<p>And you know\u2026<strong> I can&#039;t blame you.<\/strong> And I can&#039;t blame myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If you don&#039;t want to communicate, let it be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If you don&#039;t want to answer, let it be.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;ll wait.<\/p>\n<p>until you hear<\/p>\n<p>And if you don&#039;t hear it, I&#039;m not going to repeat it. Because I already repeated too much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>I have a fear of falling in love with a girl more than she falls in love with me.<\/p>\n<p>This is how almost all of my relationships have ended. <strong>Even in spite of the fact that I have always, except once, left the girls first. <\/strong>Yes, I left first, but that doesn&#039;t mean anything when I leave seeing that my feelings are not reciprocated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I don&#039;t know why I didn&#039;t leave Miletus. I guess you&#039;re wondering, but I don&#039;t know.<\/p>\n<p>She wasn&#039;t the type to reciprocate my feelings as much as I wanted them to. However, I stayed with her longer than I expected. Much longer. And it was nice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>And now I think - <strong>or maybe I want too much from people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Maybe here I am the one who demands, robs by force, extorts and does not let me live in peace?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#039;m the demanding toddler that I don&#039;t want to interact with at all?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>I do not know. Sometimes I have such periods.<\/p>\n<p>When you want attention.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be together.<\/p>\n<p>You want everything.<\/p>\n<p>When I become what I&#039;ve always been afraid to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>I probably should too.<\/p>\n<p>Disappear.<\/p>\n<p>Think.<\/p>\n<p>Regain strength.<\/p>\n<p>Like you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>I will try.<\/p>\n<p>I will try your way. Maybe it&#039;s really better to get away from your beloved friends, girlfriends, family members and others for a while.<\/p>\n<p>And return after regaining strength.<\/p>\n<p>After getting stronger.<\/p>\n<p>After gaining strength.<\/p>\n<p>After regaining composure. And the real self.<\/p>\n<p>Or not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>I don&#039;t know if you will receive this letter. Maybe you&#039;ll get it one day when I&#039;m gone. You might not get it. After all, I wrote it for myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>What a mess in my little head.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">i want to love But I don&#039;t want to love too much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I want to demand attention. But I don&#039;t want to demand too much of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I want both. Like a little child.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#039;s time to tell him enough. Finger poked again.<strong> Prepare steaming and spicy birch porridge.\u00a0<\/strong>Hmmm! A delicacy!<\/p>\n<p>confused,<br \/>\n<strong>Daniel<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">Daily target: 308<a style=\"border: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/debesyla.lt\/uzrasai\/en\/issukis-365\/\">\u00a0words<\/a>. 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