Same day again. Same routine. Same noises in the neighborhood of dogs barking, children screaming, buses going by, loud engines in the distance...
I am quite sick of this place.
I keep writing this over and over. Keep thinking it over and over. Whenever I come home after sitting in my car for hours, I think two things without realizing it:
1) this is not home
2) fuck this place
When my mother decided to purchase this townhouse, she did it impulsively without asking what I thought of it. I knew on the day when I first saw it that it had a terrible energy to it. Bright parking lot lights from the apartment across from us shines through the bedroom and living room windows. The basement felt odd. The closet...
Just heard a loud engine. My heart sinks each time I'm exposed to these noises.
I just want my peace. My quiet. My privacy.
Not my mother wandering downstairs to tell me that dinner is made or to avoid making eye contact with her each time she goes into the kitchen across from me as I sit on the couch hoping to ignore her.
I can't stand it when people can see what I'm doing when I want and need my privacy.
That's why I leave the house each day to sit in my Jeep for hours at a time and I still can't get that privacy. There are no places to park here where I am guaranteed to be hidden away from wandering eyes. Cars will come by, people will walk next to my vehicle on the sidewalk or nearby homes will have people looking out their windows to see me.
I'm so tired of all this. God help me.
This is no way for anyone to live.
Especially knowing what I had before. My own place. My own clean comfortable cozy and private sanctuary.
If only I knew how important that was to have.
No wonder I drove around a year ago looking for a tree to hang a noose off of. My soul knew what was coming. What I would have to endure living with my mother in this city that I absolutely loathe being in.
Those bumpy roads. All these newly migrated faces who do not remember the Edmonton I grew up in as a child.
A few years ago I had written in this blog asking for a "sign" from above to let me know that I was being listened towards. It was about a week or so later that I came across a park bench with a handwritten sign on it saying "someone is watching you".
I want that again. Need it.
Is someone watching me?
When I think back to that time, the amazement I first felt as I sat down on the bench and took a picture of the sign, I didn't think to ask any questions. I should have asked "who or what are you?" and "why am I here?" ...
At the moment I am listening to an audiobook called "I Am, I Create" by Erin Werley. I came across it on YouTube. The thoughts expressed resonate with me except for a few simple things:
I remember in the days and weeks and months leading up to my investment portfolio crashing that I was expressing gratitude each day. I prayed each night. I visualized paying off my debts and how good the feeling was to do so. I could see the visible progress I was making financially and...
That all ended the moment I saw 200k and effusively praised "God" for having me reach that point.
The next day it ended. The day after was like another stab to the heart. Then it sank and sank and sank.
My thoughts got darker and I smiled less and less.
What was my mistake? My error?
I did not ask for this to happen. Living with my mother. Broke. In the process of bankruptcy and soon not having any money to pay my monthly expenses because I have no income.
I do not want to ask the government for any assistance. I do not want to ask my mother for help.
I just want to be out of here. In my own place. Forging my own path.
But I do see what lessons I have learned from some of this.
I now know how unimportant material possessions are. I now see that God did not push me to act at the moment when I needed His help most.
Or the help of whatever it was I have been praying to for most of my life.
The God that was supposed to not lead me into temptation but away from evil.
The God that sent me all those incompatible women in my direction. Five of whom have broken my heart.
Just heard my mother yawn from downstairs. The noise in this place is unreal. I feel like an unwanted stranger.
I am a boat at sea spinning in circles and where I once cared about where I was going, I no longer do.
Well, that is not entirely accurate. I do care about where I am going but I don't... can't find the way to get to where I want to be.
Just playing the lottery. Buying those tickets,
Didn't win anything last night.
I used to call the lottery a tax on the stupid. Now look at me.
I must be pretty stupid.
Looking at my life with all those relationships, I realized why I got involved with them.
Because I didn't feel loved by my parents and because I was insecure.
I didn't think of myself as good looking because of the many times my mother would tell me how handsome I was. The more she kept repeating it, the less I believed it until I felt that I must have been unattractive for her to have to say it so often and she was trying to bolster my ego.
But now I realize that my physical appearance isn't all that bad. Some women have called me handsome. Karlee did.
And I have dated some attractive women in my time.
So... I wasn't ugly. But I had to take this long road to figure that out because all I could see in the mirror was the boy in high school who was teased for his big nose.
My dad didn't help with my self esteem either. Didn't teach me any skills. Didn't have an interest in molding me into his image.
Maybe it was because he didn't really accept me as his son. I remember when we had an argument while I was in junior high where he said "you're not really my son" and I wonder what he meant by that.
My mother told me he was married before he married her. A secret that my dad didn't bring up or tell me about. A secret I only found out two years after he passed. Why did he keep that from me?
All those long conversations my dad and I had when I would visit him and the stories of him immigrating to Canada but that important detail of him being married left out.
Some relationship I had with him.
Worthless. It is so easy to resent my parents.
If either of them truly loved me they would have encouraged me towards independence and preparing me for the world. They would've encouraged me to buy a place of my own in my early 20s. Instead, both of them thought it was a bad idea because I was saving money by living at home.
I had no clue about the world and how it worked and had no path forward in life. Didn't even choose my career. Nobody cared to ask what I wanted to do in life. Dad didn't ask, my mother didn't ask, neither made any suggestions.
I made a conscious design to get into graphic design and that didn't work out. Made friends and had some nice experiences but as a career it would've never worked out. Especially now.
But I had to pick something. I remember wanting to be either a writer or a psychologist/counsellor after leaving high school. Being a journalist would've been a bad idea and I could not afford the tuition to become a psychologist.
Didn't have the confidence needed. Neither of my parents cared enough to identify and cultivate the good parts about myself that would've translated to a fulfilling career. Hardly learned anything from them. My mother couldn't pass on much knowledge and though my father was intelligent and knowledgeable, he didn't pass on much either. Maybe because I wasn't "really" his son.
Whatever that means.
I'm not crying myself a river but I need to accept that this is the reason why I got involved with these women. Yes, it was nice having sex and connecting with another human being on a deep intimate level but... I didn't resonate with most of them. I felt like I just wanted that feeling of being accepted and appreciated and feeling closer to God through those acts.
No wonder I am the way that I am.
And ironically, Karlee was the one I most wanted to impress and be with. Out of all of them she deserved all of me. She deserved that light show in my bedroom which she would have appreciated. Instead, I got F---- asking me the question of "why do you have those?" like I am some kind of weirdo for appreciating beauty in my bedroom.
My life hasn't amounted to much. A ship lost at sea floating around because I didn't believe enough in a destination to aim towards. Didn't believe in myself enough. Didn't think I would find the right woman for me after having gone through so many dates and... God help me, online dating is terrible. Absolutely terrible even though it was easy to find people on it.
Such a struggle.
And what I know now is to be patient, to stay true, to push myself to realize a destiny that I envisioned.
My mother is about to come downstairs and interrupt me. I can hear her footsteps.
I'm back. She told me to make garlic bread. Not "there's garlic bread if you want it" just "make garlic bread" and then we argued about the Polish election where it is likely that a liberal party is going to get in and open the doors wide for immigration. Destroying Polish culture.
This world is such a joke.
I feel so much resentment and disgust and anger at all this.
My own life reflected onto the world and vice-versa.
Hate it. Done with it.
I did not ask for any of this to happen. I was to pay off my debts and take some trips out of the country to see if settling in Poland or a place like Mexico would be possible for me. Or someplace in the European Union.
That seems like its out the window. Broke and bankrupt.
It is so easy to question the mercy, compassion and existence of "God" with all this.
And it is so difficult to imagine myself being God but that is what the audiobook is telling me. That I create these situations for myself. That with love in my heart for who I am would reflect onto the reality around me.
And yet, I remember so well what my goals were.
I did NOT ASK FOR THIS.
I will paint a picture of what I would like to experience. Millions of dollars in my bank account and then surprising Karlee at the beach in Tootgarook with a big smile on my face. Money enough to pay for legal fees in her divorce and possibly buying her a home so she has a place to live.
I don't know what else I envision after that. I would like to live someplace warm and beautiful with good and kind people. Some place that isn't being taken over by "wokeness" and all the culture destroying garbage that ideology brings with it.
I know the clock is ticking each and every day that is wasted where I do the same thing over and over with no momentum being created. No dream being pursued. No hope in sight.
I can hear a dog barking in the distance. That same dog barks almost constantly. CONSTANTLY.
No peace. No quiet.
No privacy. No independence.
No dreams no goals.
Little faith.
"Oh ye, of little faith"
If but only I had the faith of a mustard seed I could move mountains and do more than what Yeshua did. According to his words.
I am questioning religion as I should and always have. I don't think he was Jewish. I am skeptical of his miracles only because they cannot be verified and it would be easy to mythologize him into becoming a God-like being worthy of being deified so that people would see themselves as separate and unable to achieve what he did because of how high of a level he reached.
"I and the Father are one."
"Are you not sons and daughters of the Most High?"
"Verily I say onto you that ye are Gods."
"Be still and know that I am God."
And then we get into the Gnostic gospels where basically it says in the Apocrypha of John that these bodies of ours are fleshy prisons and Yeshua came here to teach us the way out of this Satanic place. Claiming that the ruler of this world is Satan. An idea shared and supported by the Cathars who were ruthlessly exterminated by the Vatican for believing such. Despite how peaceful and loved they were.
One thing that I think is true is each and every one of us is an individuated unit of the Creator. As such, we share in his ability to create that which we desire in this physical reality.
I keep thinking of that sign on the park bench. "Someone is watching you."
Someone is watching me.
Maybe I shouldn't have been praying to God. Maybe I should have been praying to myself. Praying to humanity, actually, knowing that all success and happiness in life comes through from the relationships we have with other people.
As AC said on his deathbed, "I am perplexed".
All this studying of mine for years and I don't seem to have it figured out by now.
All I know is that I am a good man at heart who has made mistakes. Who has suffered.
Mother is coming back downstairs again. I hear her footsteps.
Probably looking to check up on my heating up the lasagna and whether or not I made garlic bread like she told me to.
Sick of it.
So sick of it.
I was right. She did come to check on the lasagna. Did come to tell me to make the garlic bread and "stand by it so it doesn't burn!"
Like I am a fucking idiot. She is the one who doesn't use dish soap so the bottom of these pans are often greasy and will smoke.
So tired of all this.
Either my life gets taken away from me or a new one begins.
What will it be God? Or...
What will it be David? Since I am God?
It is so hard to find faith these days. In myself, in the world, in the future.
Yet I still have some hope. Some faith that can't completely be eradicated.
But it's not much.
In the environment I'm living in, I can't cultivate any hope or energy within myself.
I just want to be out of here. For good.
There are many that are suffering in this place along with me. I can feel and see them out there.
It brings me no solace to know that.
But I am in prison. I feel like I have been captured and malevolent spirits are laughing at me on the other side of the veil.
The same ones that fkd it all up for me more than a year ago.
I now understand the importance of protecting myself psychically. No wonder I never want to be in this house. With my mother who has no filter on her. Who farts and yawns and leaves little hairs on my towel that I have to constantly wash off whenever I'm putting in or taking out my contact lenses.
So fucking tired of it.
Something needs to change. *I* need to change.
At the same time, I can't see myself getting a regular job. What's the point? Slave away for shekels so that *maybe* two years from now I can afford to leave this place and then what? Shitty credit, no way of buying even simple things. Like stuff on Amazon with a credit card.
I see the mountain before me and I want it to move the fuck out of the way.
Yes, I am angry. I am bitter. I am resentful.
But I also know that I have much to offer the world and that I have the capacity to love and be loved once I am able to again love myself.
It is true that I was once prideful. I loved how my mind worked.
But that's now gone. I understand why I felt that way, being hard of hearing and feeling unattractive and unloved and wanting to prove my worth. Sometimes being arrogant because people weren't seeing what I was seeing.
I don't know what to do but I know what type of conversation I will be having once I am on the other side.
I will remember people like Karlee who suffers from type 1 diabetes and lives with an abusive husband and two ADHD kids that punch holes in the wall and run out wildly into the street. Keeping her up at night. Constantly having to be watched and monitored.
The absolute stress of it all for her. Yet, she is still going. Still has faith.
Not sure in what.
My mother is coming downstairs again.
Fuck this place.
I'm done.