Things are low key around my life. Very low key. I work, I parent, I watch TikToks that is about it. It occurred to me maybe I am depressed? I started to evaluate my thoughts and I thought my thoughts are not slated sad but really just even. I have not had the downs of sadness and loneliness but no excitement and thrill either. That moment of excited anticipation right before a new lover enters your body or even touches you. I dont miss it but it concerns me that nothing is taking its place. Like where in my life am I going to find the thrill in life in general. What is going to give me the excitement and remind me about intensity and lust and all of that. It just seems like I have to have something.
I learned a few things from TikTok. The people on TikTok are disturbingly obsessed with their pussy. Holy shit I have never heard so much pussy pride and talk and songs and dancing. Good Lord. It frankly leaves me disturbed that people put that on the internet. And I am aware that I am someone who has porn home movies on the internet, but I dont represent that as anything but porn. It is what it is. You know when you log onto that website what you will see. But these pussy loving TikToks are so vulgar but mixed in right with comedy and cleaning hacks. Its off putting to me. And the children in the background listening and watching their parents sing "bring that dick here" and poppin their pussy to the sound of the beat. Oh good lord the children.
I come to this kind of thing very slow to judge. I know that lots of traditional African dances are very body centric and ass-shakin and includes very sexual moves incorporated into the heart of the dance. I have watched a lot of these dances, via you tube, JF would always share his culture with me. There was this one dance where young girls, 13-16 would dance topless in a formal ceremony. This is not an old non practiced custom but a current one. It was not sexualized at all but it left me kind of speechless. In this country that would be child porngraphy but there it was the custom and no one gives a second thought. Is that the better way? I dont know. I am not sure one has to be better or worse but just different.
And some of the dances we do today defiantly get their starts from traditional dancing. So maybe this is just a cultural thing that I am not getting. I think it is some kind of pornagraphy cultural blend that leaves me questioning everything about socially accepted dance moves and what I am ok with my kids seeing. It is just a lot for me. I am not sure that these women give any thought of how they are breaking their being down to being just pussy. And there is another one where a women is sleeping and sees her man called and she missed the call and she is FaceTiming him and he is putting on gloves and a mask and she realizes he is about to come kill her or hurt her and she get more intense saying "babe I did not hear my phone" then realizes he is coming for her and she starts screaming "lock the door, lock the door". WTF is this. Is this suppose to be funny? In what world are we living the people are mocking serious domestic violence. I just dont get it.
This is why I try to pull myself out of this kinds of social media. More often then not I am disgusted with humanity.
So I have been thinking about FOB so much. I have been processing what happened and how I feel about it. I do miss him, I did have some feelings for him but I knew as things kept progressing and getting more serious something was not feeling right. I could not put my finger on it then but I knew I needed to pump the brakes. I had zero faith that he would "make it" in the world and I could not have another JF in my life that needed taking care of. He said he was moving to Maryland, I wish him well. And I still miss him a little bit.
In Thanksgiving blog tradition I need to take stock of the things that I am grateful for. Here are the top five, in no particular order
1. I am grateful beyond words that the slow moving gang bang is over! It was such a long time of new men and scary situations with little in the way of reward. I dont know why I had to do it but I was compelled to do so. I have no insight into why my mind and body needed that kind of treatment but Im done now and I thank god for it I made it out the other side healthy and intact.
2. I am grateful for my relationship with D, for exactly what it is right now. It is low key and not intense and leaves me space to be me and lean on him some. It is has been exactly what I have needed to have someone but to still be in the space I can focus on me.
Side Note - I told my Mom that I was with D again. She said she assumed so. She said my daughter told her a man had kissed me and spent the night and she assumed D, but that was FOB. I did not correct her. She seemed accepting but like she resigned herself to accept because there was no other choice. I did not feel any excitement from her or positive emotions.
3. I am grateful for the help in my life. My parents, my friends, my ex husband. There are some really amazing people in my life that accept me for exactly how I am and help me when I need help.
4. I am grateful for my life. I have managed to live and thrive in my one income household. I sacrifice so my kids can go to private school but we have a nice home in a nice neighborhood, money to get whatever we need and almost everything we want.
5. And finally I am grateful for my ability to forgive and move on. I look at friends who get stuck in the harms of their old relationships that have suffered for years living a shadow of a life while the ruminate on how they were wronged. I do not have this problem. I forgive. I have forgiven D for the times he was not all the man I needed or wanted him to be. I have forgiven JF for his nonsense. I hold no negative emotions for my ex-husband. I have forgiven my parents for so many things. Forgiveness is a skill that I have learned. I see the personal growth on that one for sure. 20 years ago the anger would feaster and eat away at me but now I can let it go and keep focused on the good.
Tomorrow I will be with family for the holiday. I told my sister there is no way I am coming unless I am high and I will bring and edible to keep the momentum going. I love my family but these long holiday events are a test for me. And I generally hate holidays so a little herbal lift will defiantly help. I am actually looking forward to it.
Happy Thanksgiving!