01/08/2023
What is the value of a feeling? You can't see it, you can't measure it. It's always a hit and miss situation. To me they are valued above everything. If I can't feel it, I don't want it. Not all feelings are real, permanent or even direct. I might feel nothing but superficial pleasure for something one day and then feel the guilt of it the next day ... I'm good at that one. I like things that give me immediate gratification... Pleasure in the moment yet they aren't always very pleasurable to look back on. I find that I revisit allot of pain as well .
I have learned thru the years that my memories still feel the way they did when they were fresh. My favorite was when I was 15. Totally inappropriate I'm sure, but it would become a key moment in my life that defined who I would be. I was standing in the hall of a man's house, details unimportant... Leaning against the frame of the bathroom door watching him shave. I don't remember the conversation but I do remember the moment. Something inside me stirred at that moment that I had never felt before and it frightened me. I hung around a little longer and left without ever entertaining my curiosity. It haunted me for years. I thought of it often and hated myself for not pushing it to it's limits, it likely would have been amazing if I had. There have been other things in my life that created similar feelings but never one like that very first one. If I was to try to explain it, I could only liken it to my first or**sm... Yes, like that. I've sense realized that the fear it created was most often my downfall and that moment defined me as a person. Now, if something invokes fear in me, I push it to it's limits because I know the pleasure that likely only I can take from it. It's like a drug. I tell people I have no fear. I have very little. Kind of like becoming numb to your favorite drug. I wish I experienced more fear but then I would be a j***y for sure.