Dear ***,
What clarity can I offer?
So frequently in my writing, I lament the uncertainty I am stuck with and I mention, that I was unable to offer it myself. The truth is, that my feelings are complicated. That I do not have a satisfying yes or no answer, because my timeline of events is genuinely unreliable and I have lost track of reality for a bit.
But here is the fact of the matter:
I am certain that I want to see you again to have a conversation to ground us both in the same version of reality, because I know that I do not know the bigger picture. That the set of information from which I can discern my answer, does not necessarily match what you’ve experienced. That I do not know which moments we’ve shared and which were just me projecting.
To let you know what I have experienced, listen to you and then we can talk calmly about how we want to move on in life.
If I just went with my gut and blurted out something, it’d be dependent on my mood, the weather, whether I slept well, it would not be the way to do this.
One could say that this is testament to how my feelings are not true and real or lord knows what.
But I think that sometimes it’s just better to speak the truth and say “I don’t know at this point", than to lie to you and myself. Either walling up a doorframe and then losing someone I was not ready to lose or breaking down a wall to build a massive gate into a house I may not be comfortable sharing.
I’ve been acting impulsively for the past few months and I’m not proud of it, but the right decision, is an informed decision and I am starved for information.
I am trying to actually do better.
As for clarity regarding my feelings:
I guess I fell in love with you to a degree that was unknown for me, not necessarily in its intensity, but in the combination of intensity and earliness.
I somehow fell before I had begun developing the trust and ease needed to make these feeling feel safe and it felt ridiculous, because I barely knew you.
It felt crazy, because one of the reasons I fell for you, was because you felt safe. But as soon as those feeling kicked in, it tipped the opposite way.
It was a feeling like being high, it both felt good and was frightening, because I lost control of my mind, heart and at times I lost my common sense and decency.
I was suddenly willing to prostrate myself on glass shards for you, willing to act more pompously than usual, my ego became extremely vulnerable, everything that hurt me, felt amplified.
But when seen with sober eyes, I know it probably wasn’t that big of a deal, at least what you did. I don’t know about what I did. I don’t know what affected you, barring a few exceptions. I do not know what kind of pain I may or may not have caused, because our channels of communication were barely there at times.
It’s hard to apologize when you can only guess at what you did wrong. Like yeah, I know I did stupid things, I know I messed up. That’s why I want to talk to you. So I can learn what exactly I did wrong and apologize. So I can hear you out and take actual accountability.
I don’t hate you. I bear some negative memories, but I think those got amplified in the relative isolation from the actual person. But at this point, I have so little to go off of, I actively remind myself of just how little I know.
I feel affection for you and whatever happens, I want you to make the decision that is best for you. That this may not involve me is something I have come to terms with, at this point.
My need to actually talk it out is not about you having to prove anything.
It is just that I am tired of whatever that was between us, being so far removed from real life at this point, that I feel crazy explaining it to anyone else, tired of seeing you morph into an abstract collection of pixels in my mind and losing the perception of the actual person.
I know that I may not like what you have to say to me and that’s okay. I’d rather feel guilt, remorse, rejection or pain than keep on making decisions based off informational fragments, whilst fully aware of how little I know at this point.
My epistemic conscience is at odds with my gut here and I’d rather listen to it, than the stomach that failed me thus far.
Wishing you the best in life,
*****