Saturday, November 24, 2012

The Unedited Free Flow


It’s important that you understand that this is simply a flow of thoughts. No specific rhythm or making of sense intended…

As I sit here rubbing my eyelashes that still bear the mascara of yesterday, I am deliberating on what I want to write about, so in the midst of my indecisiveness, I have decided to write about how intoxication makes girls scream and my increased annoyance of the word “relationship.”

Growing up, I was taught that I was supposed to stay a virgin with such urgency, that to stray away from that would only lead me to death and then Hell. As a matter of fact, losing my virginity to someone other than my husband would lead me to somewhere below Hell, because it was something even Satan himself would find vile. As a result, me, my virginity and its container Fancy Nancy (I’m still working on a name for her) have created a special bond. I’m convinced that if I lose my virginity that I will have nothing left in this world. It’s like, when I have no one else, she’s there…she’s my pride and joy and any woman over the age of 18 who has yet to experience any type of sexual act should understand exactly what I mean. I remember when I was ashamed of being a virgin because it was the cool thing to go out and hump any and every thing that crossed your path, even if that meant claiming bisexuality or homosexuality because specific sexual desires weren’t being satiated by people of the opposite sex or other inanimate objects. It took several friends who lost their virginity at a young age, to convince me that still having mine was something to be proud of, and if they could do it over, they would still have theirs. Somewhere between the spring semester of my senior year in high school and the beginning of my freshman year of college, I found peace with the idea of me never having a sexual encounter- not even so much as a kiss.

Lately though, (especially when I’m intoxicated) my girl Fancy Nancy has been singing sonatas of being rejected and lonely and how she needs attention from some husky Southern gentleman who knows when not to be so gentle lol. It’s horrible y’all. I may be walking across campus and then she starts a screaming and singing the blues and I have to stop for a few seconds to get my life together before continuing my voyage from wherever to wherever. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I want to have sex because I know I’m one of those females who will be on that BS every time. Even though I've never had the “privilege” of being caught in one of those situations where I've had to pull the “I’m not that type of girl” or “I don’t love you, so I can’t” I know that I would…every single time. *makes forever alone face* Most times I just want to be held and told how wonderful I am.  No kissing, rubbing, none of that…it’s not even necessary. When I smile, Fancy Nancy is satisfied and the world is at peace until she finds it imperative to make herself known again. That leads me to my second topic, which is totally unrelated but been on my mind lately: relationships.

This word, relationships sounded so sweet to me a year and some months ago when I was entering the pearly gates of college life. I was floating on clouds with the conviction that I was going to meet a wonderful guy who was going to be my boyfriend all four years of college and we were going to be a wonderful couple and then graduate and get wonderfully married, just like my mother and father…WRONG!! I wasn't even talking to anyone until January and we rushed things and our relationship was done by the end of March. Now that I think about it, it wasn't even much of a relationship because I never kissed him or gave him so much as a hug lol. I guess I wanted a boyfriend so bad that I gave myself permission to settle for something that I knew wouldn't be good for me in the long run. There are some behaviors that were displayed in that situation that cause me to step completely to the left of life if a guy I am talking to displays even a hint of the same conduct. I try not to make this guy pay for what the last guy did, but it’s easier said than done.

After dealing with the second situation, which is slowly but surely getting back to its friendship aspect, I told myself that I am just not a relationship person. I've been telling myself that the whole idea of someday wanting a family is no longer a part of life, but simply an option. I think I finally convinced myself that I want to do so much with my life that a husband and kids is almost out of the question. I wouldn't dare tell my mother and grandmother that, I think they’d have a fit, mostly because it’s my “destined” responsibility to stop the cycle of broken and short-lived relationships that have plagued my family’s women from generation to generation. I’m nineteen though, and thinking about “forever” with anyone would be almost everything except logical and mature thinking, especially since I have life plans that have no loose seams that could possibly wiggle free enough to fit anyone else. Maybe I’ll meet a nice young man who will change the way I feel about relationships. Who knows? I could’ve already met him, but he’s just grooming himself into the man that he feels I deserve.