I'm the bad guy
I'm the bad guy
All these years... and now I see.
I don't care about people
I think I'm better than everyone else
I like to be left alone
I don't care about people
I go out of my way to be mean
I don't like to talk- because I'm the bad guy
... it is so odd when people misunderstand ... Especially when they don't get that you do care
But I can't care, because I'm the bad guy. People are expecting me to act a certain way. I suppose I should stop dissapointing them, and study under Squall.
5/4-"You've got a shoulder for a reason, you know -- so that a heartbroken friend can cry on it! Don't forget you've also got an ear to lend. And a heart to give!"
It can't be- I'm the bad guy
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(okay, look, the first part is just going to be a sort of prelude, and actual account of what took place... I want to remeber it)
I'm sitting in my 9th period class, and it's an odd one because it is one where most of the people have preconceived notions of me. I would say they are all in a large circle of friends that I am not involved in.
Just noticing it today, it is something I've felt before by other people who do not open up to me, or in some classes where the people are in a majority of one circle, and I am not. WHere I am the minority, I am on the edge, the outcast.
And the type of psychological mindset that I take in those situations, or moreso, just what I feel - that very familiar "uneasyness"
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And today, 9th period involved a very interesting event. Completely personal, as I was one of the few people who were not talking, so to say.
And it relates to a girl. (Oh boy, here he goes again - I know). But the thing is, this girl didn't understand just how much I cared about her. But when I stood up to her and dealt with reality, I instantly became the bad man
I became at fault.
And it makes me laugh, because she doesn't talk to me, and throws my papers on the ground. She is such a child
Days before, she's complaining to me abouthow horny she is, and why 2-3 guys aren't banging her right then and there.
She craves attention, and is like an attention whore... when you give it to her, it has no meaning, and no meaning is returned by her.
That's what struck me, it has no meaning
Yet she gets upset with me when I don't do what she wants
If I don't concede to her, and let her be right, she gets upset
She even cried the other day because I wouldn't let her sit there and tease me, make fun of me. SHe is so emotionally wounded that she can't even deal with things in a practical realistic manner, and that's why we have such conflict. Hell, I'm emotionally hungry, too. But I don't take it out on other people.
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And essentially, 9th period today, in regards to "the main group", and the girl, which is a part of tha t group,
I realized I come off as a bad guy who doesn't care
Which is completely absurd...
I started laughing when I figured it out, because I realized that all my thoughts and concerns may have been in vain.
They think my actions are done becaues I don't like them, or I think I am better then they are.
When the simple fact is, I don't act the way they do.
And this just creates more distance for me, in my perceptioin..
But just those words
"I'm the bad guy"
.........
no one said them to me, I said it to myself.
No one said - you're evil, your tha bad guy
well, someone did say your are a jerk, but that's just the girl that is wounded in more ways than one. And it's a pity, because I genuinely care about her, but she doesn't get it. I don't think she can comprehend how I care... we really are different people...
But it just makes sense.
I think a lot of people see me as being "the bad guy", the outsider.
When all a long my attitude has honestly been "well, I'll try to be friends with them"...
It's like, it was shoved back in my face, all my concern.
And now, I just feel like it's time to embrace that part... the bad guy. People are expecting me to act a certain way, so I might as well.
Like Squall, from FF8... honestly, I don't understand why I'm so much like this guy... it's eerie, but more about that at some other time.
It's time I come full circle
My silent ways are to come back to me again...
I have the social confidence and mastery I need so tacitness isn't my only option
But now..... it will make a huge difference, because it is the option I choose.
Besides, the kids in highschool are looking for someone to be the bad guy, someone to dislike. So I might as well play it up for the few days of school I have left.
The kids in gym
The kids in physics, art
For Julie
For Sarah
For all the kids who saw me when I walked out of the doors today, going to the bus. They saw me with this wicked look of awe, suprise, anger, and joy- Which all came from understanding my position as "the bad guy"
I stared them all in the eyes....
They all looked away, because the could feel what was inside me.
I've spent my whole life trying to be the good martyr, in my mind. The one who sees what others do not, and self sacrifice and all that.
That part of me won't change, no, it never will.
But..... my mental set will be "I'm the bad guy"...
That good ol' sense of coldness, and not caring what other people think....
I'll go back to psychologically dissarming people, which I have always done, but it will be more callous
I will stop trying to say the right things, because I know I can anyways.
Like I said before..... it is so different when you make the choice to act a certain way, rather than acting so out of fear or insecurity or lack of options.
I will just go back into Squallmode, the natural me that existed for the longest time, and which is invariable a core part of me.
It's the part that *she* fell in love with, anyways.... and the part that she ;oves, my seirousness. But this doesn't have to do with her
And in fact, it doesn't have to do with anyone else.
..............I'm doing it for myself..........
It's all about me
and my choice......
to how I want to address the world.
I will always serve the world, I cannot deny this
BUt I will no longer have the mental set of needing to help anyone. Or be friends with anyone.
It's non of my business anyways, as Squall would say.
Besides, It's always better for someone to show you kindness before you show them your own.
The power of not engaging your concern
Of being aware, and nt being onbligated to action
Besides, they so badly want me to be the bad boy
Especially girls like Julie...
I can see it in her eyes, and even in her stars.
She can't help looking, but she can't bear the idea of leaving her girlfriend for someone like me...
But that's what makes it so very intriguing to her.....
How can the girlfriend of "The best looking guy in school"
(senior superlatives)
Have a crush on me, the "authentic stranger", the outsider, the bad guy.....
?
Because no matter how I may act, my power comes through...
Because no matter how much money I have, where I live, or who I am friends with, I'm still as attractive as hell.
I'm the devil, don't you know?
Because I come with good intentions, andI try to save
I'm so attractive and alluring....
I'm so mysterious
And I'm the incarnation of evil
"For Honor"
Isn't that scary?