Nothing Special

Hello all!
This part of the Whateverlution...is all about me. Call it an ongoing ever changing 'about the author' Dane Cook once said...A suicide note written by someone who is not suicidal is called an autobiography.

So what gives me the ability to speak out about the world? Why should anyone listen when I tell them about fitness, gaming, intellectual pursuits, the sociological ramifications of current world politics, and gummy worms?

Well that's something you're going to have to learn as you go. However if you want credentials, allow me to fill in a bit of my resume.

At 34 I have collected paychecks from over 30 different employers. I have built million dollar homes, I have driven a front end loader through mountains of trash, I've been to basic training and enjoyed some peace time national guard time, I've worked for restaurants, retail chains, and convenient stores and been a substitute teacher. However I have also spent over five years as a guard at a county jail AND 30 days as an inmate at a different county jail. (For CIVIL CONTEMPT-I couldn't afford to pay ALIMONY, and was subsequently put in jail, which caused me to lose my job with the Sheriff's Department)

My education involves an Associates degree, and 90 credits towards a BS in Mental Health and Human services, as well as a healthy interest in reference literature. School and I have never gotten along, I find it too rigid and constraining, I can learn more on my own.

The only things I know for sure...I've been pretty good at just about every job I've ever had. The closest to a job I actually liked was as a guard. I'm a people watcher and psychological dynamics fascinate me, plus I'm an adrenaline junkie and at the time thrived amidst the crazy fights, hangings, cut-ups etc etc. That being said I now have to pursue a different career, and this blog circle is part of it. It's a social and personal experiment. I know that everywhere I've gone, people tend to remember me. However despite being a quick learner, and intelligent and well-spoken, something seems to be holding me back. So I am now hoping to work from that into something here, maybe a job, maybe a career, maybe pocket money, time will tell.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Macabre (no edit whatsoever)raw



A suicide note:
In parts.

March 8th and 9th 2013.
                I can feel it coming.  I think there is a strong chance that I will kill myself fairly soon.  I can feel it, not wanting to live anymore.  A complacent ‘can go on’ attitude replaces it from time to time, but it’s like a shark swimming around in my head…back around and biting and back around and biting.  The why bother killing machine.  I keep telling myself a variety of cutting angles to pour over the same confusion.  So many negatives coming together at the same time, like spears through the reserve bucket, until all you’re left with is all you’ve got.  You live, and you keep trying to refill that fucking bucket, but any resources you pour in it spill out the damn holes.
                I am fairly certain I have settled on the exhaust pipe.  I can pop a melatonin and nod out in the back seat listening to music and just never wake up.  I’ll need to do a test run with a battery operated carbon monoxide detector and whatever kind of apparatus I guinea rig up to deliver the fumes.  Nothing says loser like a failed suicide attempt.
                I don’t want to die.  Christ I can picture an idyllic life.  I would build a small structure, and build on it as I lived.  Two acres max, which in fucking Maine isn’t that big.  Music a few close friends and a peaceful go to work, work on the house, and hear some stories kind of life.  I try to picture what job I’ll be doing, I can see myself  with my current employer, but can’t really picture a solid ‘job’.  It gets blurry and hazy here.  I don’t know what I want to do.  I can exist where I’m working but the more I feel it the more I don’t think I want to work here forever, there’s too much bullshit.  Then I realize that the perception of bullshit is on me.  I am simply too unbalanced to deal with bullshit.  True I have made it to jobs with respectable wages and benefits and somehow always manage to self sabotage something, somewhere.  I am callously indifferent to feeling, afraid to put anything toward anything, because I know that I can’t maintain it, I know I will fuck it up.
                I know I’m going crazy.  I don’t know if it’s a side effect of all the stress or the underlying cause of it.  Either way I am trying desperately to find a way to get back into the real world and reduce the stress and somehow see if that is enough to move ahead for a little while.  Secretly knowing my days of pulling normal off have grown fewer and further between as time has progressed.  What’s causing it?  Is it me, is it treatable?  Not that I can afford it anyway. So what do I do, employ my limited resources and fairly decent mental abilities to solving a problem and hope I can keep myself together long enough to get by.  In the meantime it is necessary to have a back-up plan.  A comforting respite if I find that I really can’t deal with it and to find a somewhat dignified way to recover whatever bountiful posterity I might have.  To go out as someone who did the best they could and lost it, rather than someone who lost it, and lived a hateful jaded, and unfulfilling life.
                Stay tuned, I can honestly say I have no emotion towards either outcome.

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