I haven’t written in one of these babies in a while, and even though I don’t have much to say, I’ll say it anyway.
Do you ever get that feeling, after you’ve chosen to do something, that you’re missing out on something else? For example, there are those times when one of those random once-in-a-lifetime opportunities make they’re way into your life because you were at the right place at the right time and by choosing an alternative, you might have passed up an opportunity that you could have stumbled on?
I don’t really know how to explain it, sorry. It’s not really paranoia, more like one of those strange thoughts that cross your mind that go something along the lines of, “how many amazing opportunities have I missed in my life to date?”
I guess you can say it’s depressing, but I find it somewhat fascinating. I guess it also has something to do with luck and being in the right place at the same time.
Another thought I get sometimes is “where would I be right now and what would I be being if I hadn’t met certain people?” For example, if I hadn’t become friends with Julia, would it have led to the same relationship [if any at all] to the one I have with one of my current closer friends? One might say that have nothing to do with each other, but I disagree, because everything you’ve done and experienced makes the person you are today, and if a certain person hadn’t entered your life at a certain time and allowed you to certain experiences, you wouldn’t be the same person you are now. Am I making sense?
I know for a fact that if I had never met Jessica I would have been a completely different person. How different, I’ll never know, but I don’t regret it. Wile I don’t associate with her much anymore, I’m thankful for having met her because she obviously helped bring me to the place I am today, along with the friends I have and the opinions I hold about certain things. People don’t often think about these things, and if they do, it would go something along the lines of, “I wish this person had never come into my life… they were such a waste of time and association” or something like that, not realizing that all of our experiences, good or bad, have shaped the basic path of our lives up to now.
I wonder even what I would be like had my parents chosen to stay in Russia. Right now I’m saying, “oh god, I’m glad they chose what they did”, but that’s only because I know what happened since they did. Who knows, I might have even been better off there. Things on a smaller scale, like what junior high school I chose to attend and where I chose to sit on the first day of school, on my first day in a Staten Island school where I knew literally nobody have affected me immensely too. It’s funny, because I always complain about my eighth grade math teacher leaving me back in Math A for no reason, despite the 92 I got on my report card, and how I wish I could have been in Math B earlier, but now I realize that had this happened, I would have probably never met Irina, or at least I wouldn’t have had the same relationship now, and that in turn, she wouldn’t have met Zerina [once again, most likely]; and now I take that all back. I guess some things are meant to happen certain ways, or maybe, in a way, I lucked out, because now I have a good friend and I don’t have to waste my time and money on Calculus next year.
With all this in mind and all the choices put before me, I wonder which one I’ll end up taking and if it will be the right one. I wonder if I’ll meet people capable enough to fill that hole which will appear after I’ll separate from my friends and if we’ll ever meet again, or if something big will happen before we have any chance to make any decisions.
I hate how every topic I ever venture into ends up like this. I want to think of something optimistic, but somehow, it all escapes me. It all ends up sad or depressing in some way. I’m only sixteen and definitely not a philosopher, so why am I not dominated by trivialities such as boys, make up, clothes, and music? I guess I enjoy the last two to an extent and the first two not at all [there’s really not that much to enjoy in either].
Too confusing. My eye sockets just went boom.