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March 30, 2008

you're gonna sink faster than you can swim

I've been holding back.

I've been holding back. I have family, and ex-family-in-law, and friends, and foes, and lovers all reading this thing.

This fucking thing. This blog. It is the dinosaur on my back. I love it so much. The outlet to write. To spew forth. Yet, i have lost it. And tonight. Tonight i am pissed off.

I am pissed off at all the women in their thirties and forties who feel the need to be all boobed up and tightened and highlighted. The men who make this misgiven, mistaken beauty persevere. Ugly eighties porn has become the norm for women who are in their most beautiful, confidant bodies they will ever have search for twenty-something.

Divorce's become desperate, men and women, to go back to who they were in their twenties. Who really wants twenty back? Uncomfortable, unsure, in every single thing you do. Will i succeed? Am i good enough. Am i strong enough. Can i face this world.

In your thirties, whatever your circumstance, you begin to realize that this is it. This is what life is. You can let it all in. Embrace it. The kids, the job, the sex life that matures and becomes boring - ready to be renewed in a thirties body.

And despite whatever i have said - divorce sucks. It really fucking sucks. Starting again. Initially titillating. Quickly becomes another job. Another stress.

And you see yourself out there. And you fancy yourself different. But soon, you are worrying about a life alone. You are not what you thought you might be. You are just another single mother. In a long line of single mothers.

And i am pissed off to be censored, by me, by you.


Posted by Jess at 10:01 PM Permalink

Comments (4)

First off, it's about time you really had a good rant....screw the censoring. This place, if nothing else in the world, is yours. Secondly, I hope I have never ever caused you to feel the need to censor yourself. If I have, I am sincerely sorry. Spew forth my friend.

If you can learn to accept yourself in your 30s, then the 40s and 50s will be much easier and you'll age gracefully instead of trying to appear younger--and you'll attract to yourself people who are also confident in themselves.

Nobody else can really censor us on our blogs. It's our own fear of rejection or fear of misunderstanding. Fear of looking in the eyes of someone who has read it. It's very uneven ground. comes with the territory, I guess.

I've been reading you for a long while now, but rarely comment.

Your uncensored wisdom about growing older and embracing who we are--and that we were so unsteady in our twenties--resonates deeply with me today.

So I thank you, Jess. Let this dinosaur be a teradactyl and fly from your shoulders. Soldier on.

kim

I can only imagine how much this much suck right now but I'm hoping things improve as the seasons change and time ebbs on.

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