12.04.2008

Twelve

There are more things I don't miss about high school than there are freckles on Little Orphan Annie.

But I will admit one thing - I was cool in high school.  I cared about things.  I found as much music as I could get my hands on.  I collected records.  I had my own studio in our cellar, the walls of which were littered with my graffiti.  I took a ton of pictures.  I went to concerts on the weekends.  I was different than everyone else and I felt special and desirable and exotic.

Now I sit in my room most of the time, looking at other people's lives through the computer screen.  I've been discouraged from trying to be different in New York: it's just too damned hard.  I'm a blog-reading blob whose soul died about a year ago.

I can't see myself as being interesting or desirable anymore.  And that hurts.

3 comments:

Joe said...

you are the coolest girlfriend ever

Amalia said...

marie! this entry makes me really sad. let's go out together sometime soon, okay?

Jakob Dorof said...

it's funny — i experienced a similar thing at yale. i got there and met one of the most brilliant filmmakers i could ever imagine — already being written up in entertainment weekly and having little chats with judd apatow at awards shows. and he was my age! made my shaky-hand, shit imovie high school "productions" look like inept self-parodies. and i lost my self-confidence in other places, too. thank god i'm finally starting to get it back now. your most recent posts are much more positive than this one, so i presume you've been on the up and up too.