and for the rest of you...

[thefreefall]

I'm learning, slowly, who is and is not worth my time, my concern. It's been a really hard road, because, as many of you who have known me a long time are aware, I have problems letting go, even when it's detrimental to my well-being.

I'm really grateful for those of you who know and love me, and who respect me enough to call me out when I'm genuinely being a moron, and who point out when I'm really not making a good decision.

I've been listening to a lot of Alkaline Trio lately. I can't believe I ever thought AFI were better. Not that AFI are bad, but they're just not the same, or comparable in any way. Two songs that I've been really enjoying and identifying with lately are "Mercy Me," which is always a song I identify with ("So drive yourself insane tonight, it's not that far away and I just filled up your tank earlier today"), and "Burn."

As we burn, pretending to fight it
Everyone learns faster on fire
Things took a turn, lost all desire
You live and you burn
You live and
Like hell, we are anxiously waiting
Like hell burning silently strong
Somehow we fell down by the wayside
And somehow this hell is home
Right now, this hell is my home