This is perhaps the truest quote I’ve chosen to ignore. Until now.
When I was 17 I was kicked out. Everything before that was worse than the actual kicking out part. And, I quite vividly remember, during the worser parts, that things can’t ever possibly get even less enjoyable? I mean, I was enemies with my parents, my first love had been stolen from me and I had been locked away, emotionally and in certain respects, physically. Being so young, trapped and helpless in amongst such hatred you begin to loose your mind. I always felt I had the capacity to breakdown and become a sort of ‘thug’ but I never really wanted to. I always maintained my sense of humour and my positivity.
Since being kicked out (an unsettling abrupt way to fall bollocks first into the pit of sharks that is ‘the big wide world’) things have slowly but surely gotten shittier than ever before.
I have no time left to give where I am staying currently. I have moved from house to house, hoping that at some point I will find somewhere to settle. I then of course discovered my current ’supported’ housing. Support my ass, why don’t you! Obviously, I’ve been looking at London more personally than ever before – Yes, it is filled with homeless people, stabbings and grey building after grey building but that is to be expected. There’s one thing London has that makes me smile like a nut-job and that is such a mix of cultures, such diversity! Everybody from anywhere, all together, getting on with what they do. Rarely does some chump choose to judge you, at least, not in the centre of it all. I have desperately fallen out of love with my ‘home’ town because everyday I see it get grimier and less appealing, with lesser and lesser prospects. Compare this to where everything I want to do, have and explore is situated (London) and it gets quite frustrating.
As you grow older you encounter more human beings. I’ve had amazing luck. At school everybody got on with everyone else, we were one big, happy family with not one bad word to say about it! Then, college, performing arts – This introduced me to another unforgettable bunch of friends. But once you get a little more responsability on your back, you of course have to meet people outside of education. This is all well and good – But then you begin paying closer attention to your immediate surroundings. Every single day I am dissapointed with my generation. Yobbos. Thugs. ‘Chavs’. Stealing, angry, rude, filth with a total and utter disregard for others.
Pile on top of that money worries, security worries, educational worries, and a lot of other worries and you’ve got yourself a mental breakdown. I feel trapped again, in a different way, and I worry. A lot. About everything. It’s my natural thing that I do. And, I know it’s pointless. There’s nothing you can do about stuff you can’t change, or haven’t done yet. But now I find that there is so much to worry about at the moment in my life – Another move, how to go about that move, bills, rent, food, jobs, possibility of losing a job, lifestyle choices, chav scum and paying your boyfriend enough attention – It’s so difficult. In fact, I’ve been worrying so much that to try and seperate each worry from the other would be ridiculous attempt, even though I just tried. There comes a time when you can’t establish what it is you’re worrying about at all and you just feel so weak, so tired and so uncontrollably angry at everything. Oh, and that’s another thing! Despite worry and stresses affecting you mentally, they get to you physically too, and both at the same time in some instances. Like, for example, my completely through-the-roof sleeping pattern. I don’t know whether I’m coming or going, sleeping or waking, eating or wanking.
But then, of course, there’s one thing you forget to worry about in amongst all the crap. And as soon as you remember what it is, you feel even more naff. Who you are. Who am I? When I do my video blogs these days, it’s more of a show – I can remember a time when it was less of a show. I can remember who I was. I was confident in myself and what I wanted to do and as I’ve said, positive about everything. Absolutely everything. Now, I’m some angry git. I’m turning into chav scum. Well, maybe not.
I also sometimes wonder if this is just me being stupid. As most of my time at home with the parents was mostly fighting (I do get on better with the oldies these days though) I never really got the chance to prepare. So, there goes me with my positivity into the ‘real’ world to get it torn to shreds by everybody who knows what they’re doing! Then again, lots of people my age go on to live at home for further years of their lives. They are given longer to aquire knowledge.
Right now I’m in a situation I am nowhere near fond of. I need to get away from here. I need to give myself a break. I need to remember who I was and what I should be doing. I am not acting my age. I’m being bludgened with stress and I need to just find myself a way to escape back into some long awaited, and much earned, happiness. I mean, I’m all for action and life-problems but right now, I’ve got too many problems all piled up on top of each other and it’s turned into a rather dangerous game of jenga. Only difference being I cannot afford to lose.
Any help or any suggestions, however unclear this blog post might have been, would be appreciated.












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