Sometimes, when I’m driving home from work late at night, I’ll pass one or two individuals taking a midnight stroll. Every time I see these people I have to wonder what compels them to take such walks so late at night. Relationship issues? Are they stuck in a dead end job? Do they feel unappreciated? Are the facing things out of their control?
I moved back in with my mom. Typically, I would be running around huffing and pouting about my predicament. If you don’t know, my mom has this god-given gift of making me feel inadequate and unappreciated… so much so, she should have a Marvel Comic featuring her. This time however, things are different; it’s as if there is an eerie calm. I’d like to think it’s because of Danny. Perhaps he’s the one keeping me calm and my mom sees him as competition of attention that she cannot compete with, because when it comes between my mothers guilt-giving bullshit and his positively in general he has 90% of my attention.
Do not misunderstand what I am saying, love my mother and I’m thankful for everything that she has done and sacrificed in my benefit, but I would love to spend time with someone who builds me up as opposed to breaking me down because I didn’t take out the trash leading to the inevitable conversation of “Why are you so lazy after working a 12 hour double and doing 3 hours or homework rararar?!?!?!?”
I know for a fact that she is having issues in her own personal life. For the past week, my parents’ relationship has been openly on the rocks… understatement. My dad told her that he was filing for a divorce because after 27 years her superpowers finally got to him. Since I was 13 I’ve always thought that my parents lived in a partnership more than a marriage. I thought that they were two individuals who would make great business partners, but as lovers I never saw it. They are currently working things out my mom may even move back to Houston to be with him. I now think deep down, in some weird bizarre way, they do love each other.
My family is changing. Our opinions of each other are evolving. We as individuals are growing. This is a very interesting, exciting, unsettling, and petrifying time for all of us. I find myself dealing with everything by keeping to myself and my thoughts, explaining why I have been both moody and unmotivated to be social; keeping busy with both school and work… and the occasional 1am walk on the beach.