ordinary people
“Ordinary people do fucked up things when fucked up things become ordinary”; further, fucked up people become ordinary. If your journal accepted replies, mine would be something to the effect of granting yourself serenity in feeling that people recoil in disgust at your very touch. Or else I’d add something more suggestive related to embracing you.
Having just started a new a job, and seemingly a new chapter in this adventure, excitement and loneliness have proven inseparable. Confidentiality oaths won’t allow me to vent frustrations here, but the job’s with a group home that puts emphasis on experiential learning, life skills training, and urban and wilderness programming - it’s centered on building relationships and working within the context of personal strengths. As a bonus, our program gets youth who’ve been largely rejected from the rest of Calgary’s system. Interestingly, the parts of the job most offensive to other staff are those that remind me most of passed allies and friends, who have contributed greatly to my personal development thus far, and having the opportunity to experience it from this perspective will no doubt prove both extremely insightful and entertaining.
And I get mountain passes!
Having just started a new a job, and seemingly a new chapter in this adventure, excitement and loneliness have proven inseparable. Confidentiality oaths won’t allow me to vent frustrations here, but the job’s with a group home that puts emphasis on experiential learning, life skills training, and urban and wilderness programming - it’s centered on building relationships and working within the context of personal strengths. As a bonus, our program gets youth who’ve been largely rejected from the rest of Calgary’s system. Interestingly, the parts of the job most offensive to other staff are those that remind me most of passed allies and friends, who have contributed greatly to my personal development thus far, and having the opportunity to experience it from this perspective will no doubt prove both extremely insightful and entertaining.
And I get mountain passes!