Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Consenting Inferior

I've got to stop letting other people screw with my self worth.  

Well, one other person, anyway.  Now that I can see exactly what he's doing, I recognise everything I ignored, everything I didn't see.  I still have to live here with him and I get to watch my past self's ignorance. I wonder about the person who didn’t know, who still loved him and wondered what she was doing wrong, and I kind of hate her for trusting someone who didn't deserve it.  

More than that, I hate to discover he has the power to make me feel worthless.  What was I that he decided it would be OK to sleep with other people?  I guess I never get an answer to that.  

"What are you looking forward to?"

Next winter, when I work with the high school kids again.  I've been doing it long enough to know I'm valuable.  It's been nice to be around people my own age.  43 kids on a charter bus and it's the four grownups in the front seat making more noise than the entire rest of the bus.  

Closer than that?  All I have are hopes.  I hope I can get divorced soon.  I hope I get transportation soon. Those two are related and entirely out of my control.  

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