Selfish and supportive

Hello again :) 

Is blogging cringe now? Does anyone still do that? I have no idea, but for some reason I decided to post again. 

So much has happened so far this year and I think there's only more to come of big events, although I hope the worst is over (except for upcoming exams, help ><). What I really want this blogpost to be about is being selfish and supportive, to rant/vent and speak my mind about some stuff, because that's why we have blogs right, to say whatever we want about subjects we care or think about a lot. 

A lot of my friends are doing amazing things now, they have moved to study or just to start a new life, they are doing what they want to do with their lives and finding out who they are. Getting an education, work, or the life they always knew they wanted or were supposed to have from the start. 

As a friend it is my job to be supportive and happy on behalf of their success in life and the good things that's waiting for them, but this thing inside of me that's called jealousy and selfishness is just sort of tearing on me and I don't know how to stop it. 

I'm not the main character in the movie about my own life, but simply the sidekick or supportive cast. The one who the main character is best friends with or something along those lines, the one who's always on the side watching the main character get the development they deserve and the life they wanted, all the good things, wishing them well and always cheering for their success. 

In any "skill" I'm simply bad or average, not good or great or talented in any way. There's a saying I'm sure a lot of people have heard that goes "You'll always find someone who's better than you" which is something I view as "what's the point in trying then?". You see, in school or whatever when I would work my butt off for something and only come out as "ok" when it didn't seem like my friends did anything to be the best and get the best grades, I would of course be jealous and feel stupid. I always compare myself to others but in this selfish way of being "I wish I could be better at just this, know something that they don't, something that's gonna get me somewhere, just anything". I always wanted to contribute with something other than knowing absolutely stupid facts like how tall this one celeb is. Whenever I would say to my friends "I wish I was good at something like you" they would always say "But you are" and then not knowing what because they did their duty as friends, trying to make me feel better. 

There are things I like doing but I'm not good at it or... I'm the kind of person who always needs reassurance and praise for the work I do, and when I don't get that, I view it as "I'm not good at this" or "I didn't do a good enough job". The thing is, even when I would get that praise, I don't believe that person because they are friends with me or "supposed" to say that to make me feel better, as in throwing a pity party, that they are not telling me the truth. 

Writing was always something I thought I was good at until I started in year 11 of school. I thought I was ok at art until I started in year 11. I loved acting when I was younger because I loved attention and being on a stage, until I started year 8 and being the loud and outgoing one was not a positive thing anymore. I was selfish and annoying, so I became shy and quiet instead, even though that's not what I actually am inside. 

I know this might be weird now but stay with me, I see it as this little person inside of my head that was my personality when I was younger, who I'm supposed to be and want to be, but that person was once put aside, hidden behind something and can't get out. She got lost somewhere. 

I know I'm selfish. That's fine. I hate being like that but I am. What I really want to be is supportive of my friends who are getting the success they deserve. 

I wanna be there cheering for their success and not being jealous of what they have, but I don't know how and it sucks. I don't wanna be that negative person anymore and instead be a supporter. It makes me hate myself even more when I think about it. Oh well, what can you do? 

Fake it til you make it. 

xoxo Josefine

Being sad is ok

Hello!

I'm just gonna get straight to the point. Being sad is ok. No matter who you are. 

I just spent 30 min on the phone with my dad since his best friend is about to die (or very close to dying, he is very sick). My dad and his friend are quite old, but the friend is younger than my dad. They have known each other for a very long time. My dad has never been the vulnerable one with anything, he always puts every one before himself and he never talk about his friendship with anyone (i don’t really know how to write this so that it makes sense). But I listened to my dad talking about the first time he met his friend and he can remember the first thing he said to my dad. He talked about how he feels like they are an old married couple, they don’t have to finish the sentences, they know what the other is thinking. “He might be weird and have his moments sometimes, but I do as well, so I guess we’re the same that way” this might not really mean anything to others, but I have never hear my dad talk like this before. 

The point is, I really felt that my dad is sad about this. He never show sadness (not even when my brother died, he had to be the tough one and show that life moves on) and so I think that he has realized that it’s ok to feel sad. Even if you’re a guy, it’s ok to feel vulnerable. When his friend dies, I know my dad will be very very sad and I can’t imagine seeing that, cause it has never happened before. Because my dad is so old, he doesn’t have any family left. Just me, my sister and his granddaughter. So I think that his friend was the closest he could call family without it actually being by blood.  

xoxo Josefine