Saturday, October 29, 2005

Parents and children

I don’t really understand how this relationship parent-child works. Where do those maternal feelings come from? Why do parents love their children that much???
I mean I sometimes feel like a stranger in this house. Here are my parents who form a couple, who love each other and here I am, a stranger living in the same house as they do, eating at their table and asking them for money. I sometimes feel that there’s no bond between us, that they just tolerate me. I am aware of the immense love my mum has for me, but still… this place doesn’t always feel like home.You’re pregnant. You give birth to a child. At first you are amazed that you gave birth to a human being. Then you see how helpless he is without you and you help him survive. You give him a proper education and send him to college. And then it’s over. Or at least it should be. You as a parent did you best, but now he’s on his own. But why do parents take care of us as long as they live? Just because we’re a result of their love? That’s a stupid reason. Why do they put up with us for such a long time, even for a lifetime? Why do they always try to ensure we have everything we want and why do they both the things we want? Why can’t they simply say: ‘Son, I just don’t want you in my house anymore. Please pack your bags and leave’. Why do they have to worry and cry for a stranger? I just don’t get it…I’m sure many of you will simply tell me that I’ll be able to understand such complicated feelings in a few years time when I’ll be married and I’ll want to have children. Maybe you’re right. Maybe I’m just too childish to understand such emotions or maybe I simply don’t have them.  

 

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Friday, October 28, 2005

This sex business

Call me old-fashioned, bashful, out-of-date, call me anything you want but I just don’t understand all this fuss about sex. Everyone’s talking about it, everyone’s done it, everyone likes it. Well, it simply makes me think we’re ‘nothing but mammals’.
Today we were supposed to revise the historical story. Instead we talked almost half and hour about a controversial Romanian story. Creanga, a Romanian writer (one of the best!), wrote ‘The dick’s story or the story of all stories’. I’m not going to get into details but the story is about a man who plants dicks’ seeds -> dick plants grow -> he sells them (dicks) and becomes rich. And guess what? Our stupid Romanian teachers said it was a masterpiece for it’s kind. What kind? Pornography???? He said that literature is full of examples like this, but I truly believe that this is just too much. I mean, how low can you get? He wrote stories for children, for God’s sake!!! And, no, the teacher went on an on that it’s well written and it’s a masterpiece.Blow jobs, 69, the ‘f’ word, all these make me sick. Why do we like so much to brag about our sexual life? You did it? Fine, I’m not interested in hearing all the details! Keep them for yourself! And why do we do those kinds of things? To show your love for your boyfriend? Hell no! If that’s what love mean, I never wanna love!   

 

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

A simple day of a simple person

Today was a great day. :)
I had classes from 7 o’clock and surprise: I had a test paper. Subject: Latin. But it was OK cause I knew from another class what verbs we would get and what tenses and I tried to translate the text and maybe I’ll get a 7. That’s just fine with me.Then I had two stupid, boring, useless Romanian classes. That teacher just doesn’t get it! He’s so caught up in his ‘perfect’ way of teaching, and he has these communist ideas that he makes me sick. I swear I’d better learn by myself! GRRRRRRAt History and Geography was ok except that the Geography teacher told a colleague of mine to leave the classroom cause he’d been rude.Then I went to the library to borrow ‘The Godfather’ but stupid me, I forgot my pass at home. :)) I went of course home, entered in a second hand shop and bought a cute sweater then slept for about 2h. I went again to the library only to find out that ‘The Godfather’ and ‘Lord of the Flies’ are too new to have them and they only have the classical writers. I’m referring to books, which are in English, not translated in Romanian. I mean, WTF??? I can buy classical English books from any bookstore in town if I want to! The library is supposed to offer you books that are harder to find. And I desperately wanted to read one of those two books! Oh, well, I guess I’ll have to wait until I’ll be living in Bucharest to read them.I met with my boyfriend after that and came to my place. Like usually, we had a struggle full of laughs and we had a great time. Yeah, he’s great for caring so much about me and for loving me with all his soul. I’m a difficult girl and he sometimes suffers the consequences of my whims. :D Oh, I’m going to watch TV. I do that only on Wednesday, cause I really like that show. Kisses! :* 

 

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Saturday, October 22, 2005

I’m a rainbow too I’m a rainbow too I’m a rainbow too I’m a rainbow too
I wish I didn’t have feelings. I wish I were a cold-hearted stupid bitch. I wish the persons that I love didn’t suffer. I wish death was just a nightmare. I wish poverty didn’t exist. I wish I could make people smile and forget about their problems. I wish I could stop pollution and the destruction of the Earth. I wish I hadn’t been born in such a cruel world.I simply can’t see my mum suffering. It tears my heart to pieces. My grandmother is in hospital; she’s been paralysed on the left side for 3 day now. I knew my mum was going everyday at the hospital to stay with her, to feed her, to watch over her, but it was not until today when I visited my grandma that I saw the state she is in. It’s an awful image: that little, blond-haired blue-eyed woman, sitting there in a hospital bed unable to move and being semi-conscious. My mother was there. She still has the power to smile and to make jokes about my grandmother’s situation, but I know that inside she’s crying. I know that my grandma has been a very difficult person over this last 2-3 years, but my mum loves her so much! I don’t even wanna imagine how she will feel when my grandma will be dead. :| I don’t want to see my mother crying anymore!!! I don’t want to see her suffer! She’s such a strong person, she’s so good with others, she always helps people who ask for her help, she has a golden soul. So why does she have to suffer??? WHY?And all that pain and suffering that’s all around us… I hate hospitals cause I only see pain there. How can doctors and nurses be immune to all that pain? How can they not care? :( I’d never be able to do such a job. I’d rather starve than working in a hospital. It’s the ‘house of pain’. There are also so many people in the whole world who have no one to take care of them, no on to talk to, no one to love them… And when they are sick and unable to do certain things by themselves, whom do they turn to? It’s such a material world out there! If you don’t have money you’re condemned to death by today’s society. It’s such a cruel world. There are so many modest people who don’t afford to pay for an operation and here, in Romania, are many retired people who don’t have the money to buy the medicine they need. And many of them simply die. How can we allow such a terrible thing to happy? WHY?When I think of all those rich and stupid people who care more about a football team than a man’s life, it simply makes me sick. They have money, more than anyone could ever dream of, but they refuse to help others. WHY are we so selfish? Why do we have this retarded impression that if we help someone, we won’t be able to help ourselves? Why do we believe that by giving money to charity or simply buying bread for a homeless man we do a bad thing? Where is our pity and our love for our kind??? WHY did we kill all that was good in us??? WHY?I’ve just remembered about a shocking thing that happened to my aunt. Her mother was a bit senile and had some periods when she just disappeared. My aunt kept an eye on her but at one moment she disappeared again, but this time, never came back. My aunt was so sad. She announced the police, put her picture in newspapers, did everything that she could to find her mother. She also called to an asylum for mental diseases where her mother was once brought from her ‘walks. She was not there. After 2-3 moths of suffering she received a call from the Police Department telling her to go to that asylum to identify a body. She went and… it was her mother. She had died for about a week. And those bastards didn’t call her! They’d lied telling her that her mother was not there. Her hands and feet were eaten by rats, her body was decomposing… I can’t imagine how did my aunt feel, but I know she was on the point of madness. Heartless people… cruel… full o hatred… how could they do such a thing? They have no respect for live not for death… they don’t fear anything or anyone… they think they’re gods but they nothing but shit.

In moments like this, my soul is full of hate! I hate each and everyone who makes people suffer! I almost hate God for allowing us to do such things. But I can’t hate Him. I just question His decisions and I’m praying that our end will come as soon as possible, because we’re getting more and more evil and one day there won’t be anyone good on this planet.

 

This is my grandma. Please God, don’t make her suffer!

 

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Friday, October 21, 2005

Friends, over and over again

I don’t know why I keep caring for people who don’t deserve me. I thought I’ve learnt my lesson well and such incidents won’t repeat… but no, I still make the same old mistakes.
I thought we were friends. I thought we were best classmates. I thought I knew him. Yeah, he had his way of being which was completely different from mine, he was relaxed, I was agitated, he didn’t talk so much, I did, bla bla bla. But he was just so strange in showing his real feelings! Only one time I felt that special feeling of communicating with him, of really being his friend. I’ve made mistakes, I don’t deny that, but how could he piss me off almost everyday???In the first week of school we made an agreement: he won’t make stupid remarks as he usually does, and I won’t act like I own him. Of course he broke the promise, but he apologiesed and everything was OK…. until yesterday. I moved at the back of the class, where I usually sit during the English classes, and he made fun of me! Oh, how I hate that attitude from the ones I care for! And he knew that and still made fun of me! I mean, he was supposed to be my friend, we’ve made an agreement and still??? I simply couldn’t take it anymore. I moved to my former place and I’m not talking to him anymore. And what’s worse is that he acts like he couldn’t even care less. Maybe he really doesn’t care…And I can’t ask myself: was it my fault? Where did I go wrong? Was this friendship only in my imagination? Guess I’ll never know for sure. :(  

 

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Thursday, October 20, 2005

For all of you

I’m not really good at drawing but at least this one was made with passion, out of love.

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005

Have I ever…?

Have I ever told you I’m a rainbow?

Have I ever told you I truly believe in dreams?

Have I ever told you that everything is possible?

Have I ever told you that the clouds are made of cotton candy?

Have I ever told you that Peter Pan exists?

Have I ever told you that everyone is special?

Have I ever told you how much I love this world?

Have I ever told you how much I love you?

Have I ever…?

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Friday, October 14, 2005

Letters

Looking through my stuff the other day, I found 2 old letters that have never been sent. I remember perfectly the circumstances in which they were written: two hot summer days when sleep was avoiding me. They’re both written at the candlelight, the first one in my room, and the second on the balcony. The addressee is one of my best friends who lives in Bucharest, so far away from me. He’s the only one who is able to understand me perfectly. Thanks, dear Alex, for being by my side through all these years. I miss you!

 

 

                                                                                                         20.06.2004

 

 

Dear Alex,

 

 

Have you seen ‘Schindler’s List’? I’ve never thought that a film could stir inside me so deep feelings of pity and rage, at the same time.

 

 

We’re all so blind! We don’t realise how valuable our lives are! We’re living blessed times and we don’t know to be grateful for what we have: families that support us, friends that are by our side and last but not least, LIFE. I’ve never thought I’ll ever be able to realise what a human life means.

 

 

I can’t live as I’ve done till now, indifferent. I want to make money to help the ones who are in need of them, I want to make people happy and I want to live my life! There’re no more borders for me from now on, cause I know death’s around the corner and I can die anytime now. I want to live my life at max!

 

 

I love you for what you are! Thank you for always being there for me and listening to all my complaints. Life is everything and love, no matter how it is shown, means life! I love you, Alex, and I love this world! I love gypsies, I love black people, I love Jews, I love Nazis, and I love all of you, because men mean life!

 

 

I LOVE LIFE!

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                         27.06.2004

 

 

Dear Alex,

 

 

It’s so hot in my room, but here, on the balcony, it’s just perfect. You have no idea how beautiful the sky is!

 

 

And the night, the night’s oh, so beautiful, too! I’m just sitting here and listening to its stories. There’re trains coming and going from the railway station, there are people coming back home from town and others watching a late movie. Every living being has a story to tell, but unfortunately, they’re too busy for stories. There’re just so many things you can learn from a grown-up. And I don’t necessarily a personality or a famous person, simply a man who LIVED. How many people really live their lives? How many people still smile? How many people are still humans?

 

 

The story of my life is short and incomplete. Short because I’m only 17 years old, and incomplete cause I’ve not lived my life properly. Look, I just saw lighting! And it’s thundering. I think I’ll I contemplate the storm… There’s a storm coming!

 

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Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Me, myself and I

It’s all about me. My problems are the biggest, my pains are the worst and my ideas are the best. When will I stop being so selfish? When will I pause for a moment and think more about others instead of me? I don’t have excuses for acting like I usually do.
 But today I felt at ease with myself. It was such a beautiful autumn day, with a warm sun and without any wind blowing that I simply couldn’t stay indoors. I got dressed and went outside for a stroll through the town. Baia Mare is a quiet little mountain town and of course there weren’t many people in the streets. It was just me and my thoughts. And let me tell you they weren’t a few. I sometimes wonder why do people think so much, talk so much with themselves, always need to be thinking about something. I tried a few times not to think about anything and I even managed to do that, but only for a few seconds cause at on point I always thought that ‘hey, look, I’m not thinking about anything!’ and spoiled it all.  So, back to my autumn day. I don’t really like autumn. Usually it’s all about rain and cold weather in this season, but this year it has been really generous with us and blessed us with some warm days. I felt so attached to this town as I’ve never felt before. Is it because I’m aware that in less than a year I’ll be living among strangers, in a big town where I’ve been only for 5 or 6 time in my life?…. I’ve never particularly liked this town. ‘It’s to small… I know everyone. There’re no cool places left to see.’ And now, all of a sudden, I remember all the places I’ve been, all the fun I’ve had in this town. And I don’t know if I’m ready to let go of it. I’m not mature enough to move alone at the other part of the country although I sometimes I desperately want to be there, far away from my parents and all. No, I’m definitely not mature enough.  Skipping the ‘love for my town’ thoughts I ended thinking about the people that I’ve loved. Things that we’ve said, kisses and hugs that we’ve shared… they’re all so vivid in my memories. And every time I’ve ended with a broken heart… but I’m able to smile, even if it’s a bitter smile, when I think of Them… I just want Them to know that I’m fine without Them, that I don’t cry about things that could have been but never were, that I’ve forgiven Them… Life’s unfair. I feel such a pity for those old beggars. It just tears my heart apart. They are women and men who worked a lifetime and now don’t have enough money even to buy a bread. And they don’t beg. They simply stay there, at a corner and look at you with those eyes… I’ve never seen so much pain and humiliation than in those eyes… I can’t just walk by. At least I look them in the eyes and try to tell them that I understand them, that I know how unfair life has treated them and that I love everyone of them. And when I have money and I give them some, I feel so good! And the gratitude in their eyes means a lot to me. I actually picture myself in their place… old, hungry and alone… they’re our parents, our grandparents… why do we treat them like this?????? And I’m home… no more thoughts, no more selfishness, and no more autumn sun. It’s all gone… till next autumn.

 

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Sunday, October 9, 2005

Electrical storm

There’s an electrical storm inside me. I thought I’ll never be in this situation, but here I am, with my soul wide open and no one to understand it.
 It all began last night when I watched a documentary about the 11th of September on discovery. It wasn’t like all the other documentaries that focused on the terrorists and the crashing and all that stuff. This one was special because it’s main ‘characters’ were the simple Americans who died in those attacks, the ones who were on board of those planes.  I have to admit that I’ve been living in my own little world for some time now: no TV, no newspapers, and no nothing that was connected to the outer world. Yeah, I knew about the attacks, I knew about the tsunami, about everything but it didn’t affect me at all, as if it hadn’t really happen, as if I read that in some books and I knew it was fiction. Seeing that documentary last night, I realised what I’ve missed. I’ve missed world pain and suffering, I’ve missed world tears and prayers. And I’m ashamed of that. How could I possibly have been so ignorant, so caught up in my own fantasy world? Where was my mind on that tragic day of 11th of sep? Where were my prayers for all the people that died then??? It’s not about America and Americans. It’s about people. A life is a life, no matter what! It has the same value. And nothing is as important as life.  I cried throughout the whole documentary. I simply couldn’t stop. The victims’ close relatives talked about them: they were husbands and wives, parents and children, grandparents. And now they’re dead. They called their loved ones from the plane to tell them how much they loved them and to wish them a happy life, no matter what. And they were so calm. They accepted their destiny. They weren’t afraid of dieing. The people from flight 93 even rebelled against the terrorist and saved the capitol. They fought for their lives, for the right that God had given the to live. And they almost succeeded… They were people just like we are! It could have been us in their place! I just can figure out why someone would do such a thing. Why does one want to kill his brother? Cause we are all brothers and sisters, we’re all the same in god’s eyes. Why do people kill each other??? Why do people like to bring pain, despair, destruction and death everywhere they go? WHY? There’s just so much evil in this world… This world is simply too big and too complicated for a little girl like me. I’ll never be able to understand it, to figure out if it’s love or hate that makes it go round. In the current situation I’d go for the last one… These earthly possessions are that important to us? Why do we all want to have a well-paid job? Why do we want cool cars? Why do we want money??? Everyone knows that money doesn’t bring happiness, and they still want to have money, lots and lots of money. We’re living in such a material world that at one point god won’t be able to take it anymore and he’ll just tear this world to pieces. And I can hardly wait for that day to come! I can’t take it anymore! There’s just SO much pain in this world we’re living. So much pain…. Why can’t we live in peace and harmony with each other? Why is this world full of prejudices, stereotypes and hate??? Why can’t we just live for today??? Wouldn’t it be a better world? I just want all of this to stop. My soul can’t take this anymore… every time I leave my world and enter the real one, a part of me dies… it’s just too much for me… make it stop! Please, make it stop! MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

 

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