Thursday, May 30, 2013

Once Upon Time, in Reality



Alice should have stayed in Wonderland. Dorothy should have stayed in Oz. Peter pan had it right, and Wendy probably should have stayed with him in Neverland.

The real world, and the reality that most people are stuck in, it's a trap. It's a cruel, and damn near useless trap. I understand, that it's probably not fair for me to say that. It may not even be true, but I can't help but feel that way these days. Everywhere I look, I see pain. In people's eyes, and in their body language. I can hear it in their voice when they speak. It's a heartbreaking tone. It just makes you like hugging the person. Only, you know if you do, they'll just push you away.

They lie about their pain, just like they lie about yours. People tell you all the time that they're your friend. That you can trust them, and that they want to be there for you. You pretend to understand, because you've already realized that they are blowing you off in the middle of telling you that they care. Those are the kinds of people that really mess with my head. I don't hate them, and it's not very easy for me to get mad at them. It just hurts. I'd rather be told that I'm too depressed, and too much of a downer to hang out with. I'd rather people just tell me the truth, and say that they don't want to be around me. I know it hurts when people do that, people have done it to me before. Only, it hurts more when a person lies to my face about it. Claiming that they are so busy, and barely have time to breathe. You're told that, and then you go on social networks, like Facebook, and see photo after photo of that person handing out with a bunch of other people. You go on Instagram, and see the same thing.

I understand why people don't like being around me, most of the time, I don't even like being around me. I just hate that people think lying to me is easier. I guess I've know for a while, that I'm not really worth a lot. I just thought maybe I was worth the truth. Ever since I've been back in the area that I'm in, I'm starting to see that I'm not.

In Wonderland, nothing made sense. It was a mess. Tea parties, songs about how it's not your birthday. A stoned caterpillar, and a Queen that needed anger management. Yet, Alice learned a lot things about herself. A world full of nonsense brought out the best of her, at least that what I thought. Wonderland taught her things. It just seems like she learned better things. Better things than what this world has ever taught me.

Even if Dorothy wanted to go back to Kansas, I think she would have been better off staying in Oz. I think Alice and Dorothy would be best friends. I've always thought that, because both of them seemed so alone before they went on their adventures. No matter what, in the other worlds, or their own....I think if they would have found each other somehow, they would have been a little less lonely.

In Neverland, you're forever young. Enough said. Peter Pan had every right to be scared. He understood that when you grow up, the world can eat you alive. It can chew you up, and spit you back out, half alive. It's like....you wish it just would have killed you. If I were Wendy, I would have stayed. The stars shine brighter there. The water is blue, and it's full of mermaids. There's adventure there. You know what probably isn't there? Sickness. Things like Cancer, and mental illness. I bet the minute you get there, some of kind of weird magic takes it all away. In Neverland, you probably don't have to watch people you love die. Or feel your own body slowly shutting down. Sure, even if you can't grow up there's still death. Only, for some reason in my mind, in a place like that, once you're there, time stands still for you. Sickness goes away.

Sickness doesn't go away in this world. People lying to you for their own comfort, that will never stop. Bullies, Ignorance, and evil. All here to stay. The pressure to be just like everybody else, will hover over us like an angry rain cloud until the day we die.