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M.J. Rahahleh
Amman, Central Province, Jordan
Its hard to determine who I really am.. To start with, I'm into Gothic Rock, Mythology (especially Greek and Norşki).. I don't give a damn what anyone thinks about me, Its simply no body's business since its my own life.. After all, who cares?
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Saturday, March 22, 2008

The Triumph of Defeat

There are a million reasons for me to hate this world. Starting off with my own self and ending with what ever I've been through in this miserable time of being on this earth… I know the last post sounded a bit pinkish and happy, but its been always like that, as soon as I start feeling actually happy, everything just comes down in a second, the day after I had that time of my life along with Zaid, Ryan called, yeah yeah yeah… same old dull Ryan, the one that crashed and destroyed my whole existence almost 3 years ago… seems like he didn't learn from last summer's incident, I thought that was supposed to keep him away for at least a couple of a years… but NO… as he always does, he finds a way to wreck my world down to ruins… everyone I have unanimously agrees that the first relationship they had was the best… and as always, in my perverted world everything is upside down… Ryan was the worst mistake I have ever done; he was my school pass time and the let-loose place of all my teenage wickedness… I met him on the 29th of September 2004 when I was 15 and in the worst time of my life (to my surrounding atmosphere, that is), he works in Virgin Records Austria and I was still this wicked creature that is still feeling his way out in this dark world… he was always somehow able to ignore whatever I say and just smile. Although that made me even more pissed off, he didn't seem to care at all; he was one of those guys that I call nowadays "the drugged people"… those people that act like everything will be OK when it just won't, like everything is painted in either bright gay pink or baby-boy blue… and since I was still a boy at that time, he used to call me his big baby boy, I despised that name since the moment I heard it, and I still do, whenever I remember it I just feel like I've been shifted back in time into that the awful period… although he is the person I hold such huge grudge for, yet I have some memories about him, he was the first one to make me feel the bitterness of love, how it feels to be forsaken, how it feels to be alone in the dark, talking to my self and bleeding for I have no reason to live… and it reminds me of the first Goth song I've ever listened to, again, H.I.M. or His Infernal Majesty was the first Goth band to conquer my little universe… Killing Loneliness… I remember the New Year's Ever of that night, I was in my bed with nothing else to do except sorrowing my own defeat… and the part that made the biggest impact on me in that period (and still to this moment) was " Nailed to the cross, together… As solitude begs us to stay, disappear in the night, forever… And denounce the power of death over our souls and secret words are sent to start a war"… That was the first time I had the chance to even think about the "Power of Death"… before that, I was this regular teenage, and just another one that thinks that death is a plague, a curse, a bad thing to happen… And I spent more than half a year only listening to that song, until I watched the video of it on TV… Seeing the heartagram for the first time, and the "eye liner" Goths, I was totally amazed… I had this false impression that Goths are like Satanists because of the "black clothes" style… Ryan was the first person ever to make me write the cursed words of love, devotion and emotions over a tree that was in my school, which I cut down with my own hands as a part of the "moving on" process…

Ryan and I stayed for quite a while, which was the most memorable thing about him, that him and I did last for a while… I still don't know if I was right by convincing my self that I stopped loving him… because, at some point, I must hate him for leaving like that because I still do have some emotions for him… I don't know… last year, when he came with his new Swedish boy-toy… Tim, a person that would be recognized as a model, and he is really dumb like a blond model… when I first saw them together, I was hanging out with my friend Yara, that’s when she said: isn't that Ryan? I couldn't help but to look, and I was unfortunate enough that he was looking that way also; he started walking towards me… I had to put on a face of the many faces I've got, so as always I went for the sarcastic "Whatever!" face… He came and said: hey Yara, how is it going? Yara said: always a pleasure to see you Ryan, I know that Yara hates him, at least because I brought her headaches over what I used to tell her about him over and over again... I was remembering that period when he said: you changed; you look taller… and happy… I said: Yeah right… All of that because you went to far far away to Brussels... that’s when he said: Tim, this is my ex-boyfriend MJ and his friend Yara… I kind of chuckled hearing that, he said: and what makes you all giggly now? I said: I hope you didn't come up with a ridiculous nickname for this "Tim"… Tim said: and what is that supposed to mean? I said: baby, you won't get it even if you had a brain… Ryan said at that point: enough of this, we're going, later… I said: thank goodness, now go away… the rest of the evening went by slowly, I was thinking about Ryan... Me and him, and what we used to be… Yara was talking to me and I wasn't really paying attention, she said: hey, if you have something to say to him then go say it, don't keep me talking as a dumbass here with my self… I said: no I don't think I have anything to say… let's just go home ok? She said: I have to go see my sister, so I'll catch later… I said: fine, later… when I got to the end of Wakalat Street, I found Ryan in his BMW Z4, he was looking at me in this weird way, Tim wasn't with him, so he said: hop in, I'll drive you home… I said: just run over me, for me that would be easier than talking to you… he said: what's wrong? I just want to talk to you… in my head, voices were screaming NO, NO, NO, DON'T… but I did, I had a déjà vu about how he used to pick me up after school, and remembered all of that, fit felt like I'm the same insecure fragile teenager again… he started driving and said: you know how I feel about you, right? I said: do we really have to do this after you run over me? He said: why are you like this, you were the one that asked me to just go, or you forgot that part? I said: and that was closure, no need to do more questioning… besides, I'm not considering getting committed in anything right now… he said: as if I can find anything I'd care less about than your troubled love life… I said: you shouldn't have asked in the first place then… then there was a long period of silence when he broke it by saying: why? Why did you ask me to go? I said: to be honest I still don't know, but I had to change things, you don't know how weird that period was for me and throwing you away was the first resolution to be made in order to change everything… he said: throwing me away? And you say I don't know? For your information, I did know, hell I was your boyfriend… I said: that doesn't matter now, its history anyway, he said: it does, you destroyed something great with your own hands. I said: and I'm sure I can live with that… then he stopped and looked at me, the same way he used to 3 years ago… and he kissed me… all of me was screaming "NO, RUN AWAY" but I couldn't resist… and I felt something, I felt this old feeling rushing back in, it felt like it has been forever since I felt like this for someone… and then he moved back, and he said: I know you felt something, I felt it in the way you responded to my kiss, just like you always did, you threw away something that was totally amazing, but its never too late to get it back, it all depends on you. I didn't know what to say except: yes, I will take you back… and he held my hand and said: I promise I'll never fail you ever again, if I ever failed you before… I painted a smile upon my face while I was storming up inside, thinking of the consequences of what just had happened… then he said: I'll move back from Brussels within 3 weeks from now, I just need to sort out some things… I said: before you sort out anything, you go and dump Tim… he said: consider that done… he's nothing and he'll never be… I was trying to enjoy whatever was happening but I couldn't… he drove me home and said: I'll call you… I didn't say anything, I just walked away, I got into my bed and I felt like I'm sinking into my own sea of sand, what have I done? All I could've think of was how Ryan left before without saying a word, and I was more determined than ever to get my revenge for that, although I caused that my self… the next day, I was in the same spot as the day before but Yara wasn't with me this time, and Tim showed up, he said: well, well… if it isn't you… I said: don't you have something to buy, say like a brain? He said: do I hear bitterness? I said: no, that’s your own brain trying to process something out of your league… he said: keep up the hostile attitude and I'll be gone faster than you can say "screw you"… I said: and is that a threat or a promise? He walked away and I couldn't see any sign on his face that Ryan dumped him yet… I had the idea of postponing my plan for a while in my mind… and so on 3 days went by, when I was peacefully in Starbucks, when Tim showed up and said: bitch, how dare you? I said: go get some Prozac, its not my fault that you're not good enough… and he simply felt that you can't fill the void that I've left, so you just move on and go suck on something else… he said: this is far from over… I said: and I'm sure I look on the outside as frightened as I am on the inside… that night, I saw Ryan where he said: I have to leave tonight to Belgium to arrange papers and things, I'll be back in 2 days but I will call you meanwhile… I said: sure... bye… when he called the day afterwards saying: I'm almost done with everything, and I'll be over there in Amman as soon as possible. I said: Don't bother to come back… he said: what? I said: it's been fun watching you breakup with your boyfriend and everything, but I can really spare being with you right now… he said: no, you didn't just do that... I said: yes I just did that, I toyed you like a sucker and you fell for it… and the most fun part was watching your toy boy Tim all swallowed and red and furious... just like your departure 2 years ago wrecked everything for me, I just got my revenge back… see you in an another life time and enjoy whatever is left for you.

And that was pretty much all of it, this was one of many times of what I would do just to satisfy my ego or just to get my revenge… but when Ryan called me this spring, I couldn't process anymore… I felt like I'm the same sick twisted teenager that I've always been, that I can't even grow out of being this… immature… and after I hung up on him, I smashed my phone to the floor, I felt as if I have to do something about it, I had to let it out, and the first thing I had in my hand was my phone… and all the way back from university, I was absent minded, didn't say any word to anyone… and when I got home, I didn't know what else to do than to cut my own wrist, I felt as if I can't live anymore, I felt like I'm not even meant to live, as if I'm a failure, and in order to save others from my own self I should get it over with… and that was the reason why I decided to tell Zaid that I can't go on with this, even if I have feelings for him, its just impossible for me to go on…

Monday, March 03, 2008

Sleepwalking Past Hope...

I don't know why I do certain things in a certain way… a way that leads me to blaming my self at the end, knowing that I wasn't supposed to do whatever I have done in the first place… usually, people look at the weekend as the time to relax and run away from everything that is happening around the week… but for me, the weekend is not a day to relax, it is just another day… since I have this tradition of walking around my house everyday around sunset (the most time I hate of the day), it gets worse since people usually go out on Thursday mainly, and I am forced to talk to people that I didn't even think I could talk to… yesterday, I went out for the usual walk and to Starbucks to get some coffee… and as usual, Wakalat street was the usual sea of people at the weekend, I just felt like I don't want to be there, but since I am already there, I'd get it done and I'll get whatever what I want and go away, I turned the sound of my mp3 player to the max and walked as fast as I can just to get there… at some point, I just had to stop… I walked to a side street and stood over there, closed my eyes and just listened to the songs I had playing on my mp3 player… at the moment I closed my eyes, a song that I am obsessed with nowadays started playing… Ghost Love Score by Nightwish, lately, I have been listening a lot to Nightwish music, which is considered as a Symphonic Gothic Metal band… the last part of the song is the part that made me almost cry at that moment, which was the first time I ever paid attention to what Tarja said… she said: Redeem me into childhood, show me the real me without the shell… like the advent of May, I'll be there when you say, time to never hold our love… at that point, I just wanted to open my eyes, look next to me and find someone that I could at least relate to… and although it sounds a bit stupid, I did open my eyes, hoping that I will… but as usual, no one was there, it was just me alone by my self as always… I tried to pick up the remaining pieces of whatever multiple personalities I have and I continued to Starbucks, although Wakalat Street is not that much of a walk, but at that night, it felt like it took me ages to even go by a step over there… And when I walk, I either look at the floor or give a cynical hostile look to whom ever I look at, and I was damned to remove my sight off the floor, I looked at the tables outside Starbucks at the terrace… and I saw Zaid sitting with this guy over there, I acted as if I didn't even care about it, and just walked along inside to the counter just to get my coffee and my cheese cake and get going. While I was waiting for everything to be ready I found Zaid standing next to me, talking to me… I couldn't really figure out what he's saying since I had my headphones on, ironically, the song playing was "Planet Hell" by Nightwish again… he reached out and took my headphones out of my ears and said: hey stranger, it's been a while.. Why don't you answer your phone? I said: you know… I'm a big fan of the "silent mode" in my phone… he said: good to know you still have the same spirit. What brings you over here? I said: and why would I come to Starbucks, Their famous roasted chicken? He said: you can stop being cynical now or else I'll just go away… I said: is that a threat or a promise? Besides you already have your "date" to take care of… he said: that is not my date... But you know what? I'll go… another couple of minutes passed while I was still waiting for my order, it was almost ready when Zaid walked in again and said: I have to talk to you… I didn't say anything, I just ignored my order and walked out, I just wanted to go sit in my dark corner that I have always decorated with sentences written in my own blood, I just wanted to be there and cry for a reason I didn't even know… I felt like a moth getting closer and closer to the flame that it will eventually burn it, but the moth loves this flame more than its fear of death… but I was a chicken-moth and I just walked away from my flame… I almost got to the end of the street when I lost control and just turned around, found Zaid still standing and looking at me in a way I'll never forget… I said: you want to talk, fine, we can talk… he didn't say anything, he just walked, and I followed him, he stopped at an isolated side-street and kept looking at me in the same way… I had to say something, I said: you still want to talk or what? Do you want to talk about the fact that you went out with someone else and you called me right when you were with him? Hell I don't know even if it's someone or you're seeing more than one person… my vision started to get blurry as I started having tears in my eyes, yet he didn't respond, I didn't do anything after that, I just swallowed my own bitterness as I always do and said: have it your way, I have other things to do… before I even moved an inch to go, he kissed me… I didn't want to either respond or reject the kiss, but I pushed him away, he said: what did you that for? You don't know anything, the guy with me is my brother, he's back from outside the country and I'm just spending time with him, and he's the same guy I went out with when I called you in addition to some of his old friends, and our plan was to go to Abdoun but we went to Shmeisani to have something at Chili Ways restaurant, and I kissed you because I want to make you snap out of whatever bubble you're living in or simply so we can share our breaths for one last time… when he said that, my memory jumped back to the moment when we had our first kiss… when he said: I want to share every single breath I will ever breathe with you… that’s when he started talking again, he said: you have no idea what you do to me when you act like this, when I thought we broke up before 4 months I felt like I can't even breathe because I know that I will never get to share this breath with you ever again… and you know what, I don't care, you can be as much hostile as you want, but with me the rules have to change, because you're different, every guy I have ever dated before always called my his love or whatever names they ever thought of, but you were the first one ever to call me your soul mate… I know we are soul mates and I am not going to accept the idea that you and I have to go separate ways from now on, I just can't… even if you changed into this guy that lives in his own head, you're still the same person I knew and loved, and I still love.. You have never made me feel unwanted, even if you acted like you are rejecting me but the look on your face said the exact opposite… I just know that this is something that we could both live for… fuck I don't know anything anymore, I just know that I want you, and that’s all I could care about right now… then he stopped, we kept looking at each other and didn't do anything, at that point, it felt like words are simply unnecessary, and I felt like his words hurt me more than violence, simply because all of what he said is right, all of what he said is what was showing in his black eyes that were starring at me… then I said without thinking: why would you even care? He said: because it's you… you give me a feeling I've never felt like I'd feel, from the little things that we match in like how we always order apple juice together, to the fact that whenever we kiss, you put your hand on my chest as if you're trying to reach out to my heart to see if its still beating for you, and its still beating, all you have to do is just feel it… I didn't say anything, I had the part of Ghost Love Score playing in my head again, and I closed my eyes, knowing that I will find someone that my heart relates to as it always did… and I did open my eyes, he was still there, and he smiled, and he said: and what you're waiting for? I went along with my feeling and I kissed him, and I felt his still warm tears on my face, then he said: I love you… it was one of those moments that you feel like you're in a movie, that its like a written script of a fairy tale and it everything gets resolved in the end, but this has not been the end, this is just the beginning… then he wiped out his tears and said: I should go back to my brother… and when I call you, you'd better answer or the next time you come near to kiss me, I'll bite you… he rushed back to Starbucks and I still had the feeling of going back to my special wicked corner, this time I felt a bit happy for I thought I found someone who is willing to accept all of my issues… I got back on track and got my headphones back on, this time, the shuffler choice in the mp3 was Planet Hell by Nightwish… "A Deep World, A Dark Path, Not Even Crossroads To Choose From, All The Red Blood Carpets Before Me, Behold This Fair Creation Of God"…