Damn buddy, it's amazing how similar we are.
I for some reason for the last few years have got to thinking and I always come to bullshit conclusions that I'm so much different from other people my age. That I'm special and for some reason I should be better recognized when in reality I mean absolutely nothing.
Just about every single time I'm alone, unless something great has happened to me, I get very depressed. Any non-school night when there's nothing to do, or something is going on and I'm home, I just feel awful. If I missed a party, or anything like that, I get the feeling of being "left out" which makes me extremely depressed. For example, just today I was hanging out with Jared and Richie, and at one point Richie referred to "the boys" as him, Jared, and Noah. No Zinter. For some reason I am now merely an extra, when at one point it was us four, and even before that I recall Jared specifically saying "no richie allowed" when we hung out. This for some reason ruined my day. It shouldn't have.
It's because I have a terrible self esteem. I used to be able to speak publicly without a problem. Now, even though I don't feel nervous, I'll get up there and start shaking and come across all goofy. I think it's because I feel the need to be accepted.
I could just about quote what you said about mentioning things you've done. I always want to tell people this shit they won't care about, but I usually don't because I don't want to look like I'm trying to be cool or something.
Regrets, I've had a few. But not in the last 5 years or so. I haven't been able to feel any real remorse for such a long time that I've almost forgotten what it feels like. Obviously sometimes I can feel guilty about something, but not to a great extent and not for long.
I've always had thoughts about the edge of ending my life. Saying little things to myself like, "if I can't do this simple thing, I'll end it here." "If the dice doesn't roll a 4, I'll do this." Of course I don't do it, but for some reason I always test myself to see what it would be like to be at that brink. It's really fucked up.
I do the sidewalk thing. I over analyze social things which would seem simple to the average guy.
We are not the average guy though. You more so than I, but I feel there is a direct correlation to intelligence with how we think about things. We look too deeply. Our emotions can't handle it. We get depressed. It's amazing you brought this up, because I spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff. Thinking about thinking. It gets really fucky.
We are weird. Or maybe everyone is this way but they haven't analyzed it. I don't know. What I do know is we are different. We are thinkers. It has troubled me plenty, and it does all the time. It may not look like it, but I have no self esteem. I have also gained some form of superiority complex from it. I feel better than the majority of people. Exceptions to this include my cousin Mike, and you.
From hanging out with you, you have surprised me a lot. I didn't expect it, but you and I seem to think the same way about a lot of stuff. Or at least the way I perceive it. I don't know about you.
There's so much other shit but I didn't want to write a book and I wanted to keep it generally based off of what you posted.