Sometimes I feel like I am not a good friend/sister/daughter/niece to the people I love the most.....I do not come around.call or text......My family friends can literally count on one hand how many times they have been over my house....and some have never been over and honestly they probably wont ever either...I just need you, guys to understand me and accept me for whom I am...I will explain to you guys why I am like this and I hope you, guys will understand.....
I grew up in an one parent home with my mommy and three sisters...as far as I could remember there was always someone living with us....we never had a house with just us....I never had my own room as a kid or my own bed....I shared a bed with my big sister Vanessa all the way until i was 18........not because we piss poor but because my mama was always letting someone live with us....as a kid I watched things and observed things happen to my mom.....I witnessed my mom letting folks live with us with their kids and she would be the only one that worked.....Every single person that has ever lived with us dogged me and my sisters out while my mom was at work point blank period....these were often family members or friends of the family....I clear as day remember my mom would be at work and her so called friends and my so called relative would talk about her right in front of us....call her an unfit mother, nasty and ugly I even heard people call her a whore. These very same people lived with her and did not work sat home all day and smiled in my mothers face when she got home from work.
I was always the outspoken one I would take up for my mom....and speak my mind so I was considered the smart mouth child who thought she was grown.....I always felt like i was a threat to people...like literally grown ass women would lie on me to get my in trouble so that i could get a whopping....I did not get very many whippings and I can remember every single one of them...and I never felt like any of them were ever justified....I always felt I only got whippings because I was a child that spoke the truth and the truth hurt..The so called adults that were punishing me were not punishing me because i misbehaved...but because they did not like my smart mouth ass and could not wait at the chance to beat my ass....every adult that was supposed to protect me as a kid hurt me and broke that trust.....as a kid adults are supposed to protect you from harm not bring harm your way.....I have so much resentment towards allot of people based off the things I went thru and witnessed as a kid......
my child hood was not all peaches and creams but I am not fucked up about it....I did not turn into this wild rebellious teenager/adult....what I did was build a wall to protect me from getting hurt...and it carried on with me as an adult...my loud aggressive do not fuck with me attitude....this is the why I fought allot in school....I had this I am going to get you before you get me....I had so much resentment towards my mom....one because she was too damn kind to people and got taken advantage of all the time....two because I am just like her even though i have been fighting all my life not to be.....I hated that she worked all the time...and me and my sisters would be at home getting treated like orphans...she was our only protection and I thought she failed....and I swore to myself I would never ever let things like that happen to me.
That is why I do not let folks in my home....its my shield of protection against the world....I can control what happens in my home....That's why I do not come around that often...because it lessens the chances of me being hurt by people I love the most. I have allot of hurt in my heart and 99% of it was caused by people that I love.....I hope one day God heals my heart and soul so that I can change.....until then I just ask that my friends and family understand me and know that I love you, guys with all my heart...although I may not come around I am working every day to change.....the few friends that I have are my friends for a reason....I know beyond a shadow of a doubt you, guys would never intentionally try to hurt me......I thank y'all for that....
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum