February 26th, 2010
FEAR
It creeps inside and corrodes my soul. Every fiber of me is shaking. It is restless and yet I don't know that it's already there.
It has been a very long time since I last typed something in this blog. I was torn from worlds and arenas. I was thrown by life into a lot of deep chasms. I was like out of this world yet in this world. It's only now that I thought of writing here again. I don't know if it'll be consecutive though.
I AM AFRAID. I am frightened. I fear. But those aren't feelings like when you watch a horror movie or almost got swiped by a rushing vehicle when you cross the streets. It is not like when you encountered the scariest creature on earth.
No. Instead, it is a kind of fear that I just realized today.
I AM AFRAID TO FALL IN LOVE AGAIN.
I realized it when I've come to know more of the person I just simply liked last school semester.
I realized when he was just so nice to me yesterday during our recollection and tonight's night-out.
I have noticed for so long that I get jealous when he talks about other girls or just speak to them so casually. But I had thought that it wasn't new. I have been jealous all the time when guys I like do that. It's normal and I have come to accept it that way that even though it irks me sometimes, I assure myself that it's alright; he's not my special someone to begin with.
But then, after yesterday, something just relived within me. Yesterday, during recollection, we were talking and joking with each other as each of us in our section shared our desires. I was gushing inside throughout my encounter with him but as if I was a professional actress, I built a facade that would not make me slip myself to him, baring my feelings to him like this one girl who very expressively likes him in our section. I made subtle conversations that wouldn't make him notice it at all. It was stupid, as usual. But it's an inherent mechanism in all of us to hide what you really feel from someone you love for fear of rejection. There were so many things that he did yesterday with me that, if I were a normal healthy girl, would made me giggle so much.
He tickled my feet unexpectedly, he rubbed his palm on my back playfully in a mock-comfort when one of our classmates (during sharing) starts to cry or sniff, he arranged the paper that was supposed to be stuck on our backs properly for me,and he took the initiative to high five with me during the peace-giving at mass. Tonight, he invited me to come at a Marathon stuff in Foursquare to praise God, he said (when asked about what his impression about me was) that he likes to hear what I say during our Speech class last semester and that he was intrigued that I desire to 'understand everything' as I said in our recollection, and he asked that all of us would wait for a taxi for me first. All of these may be little things. But all of them touched me.
Because he was being very nice to me. And just now I realized this fear. This fear that if I fall in love with him, I might get hurt again. Although I know that I shouldn't think that. But I have already unconsciously felt fear inside. I don't want to be conceited and say that he likes me back. I don't want to feel conceited and say he might be the one.
But there's a part of me that wishes it would happen and I don't like it. I am afraid. If I fall so hard again...I don't know what to do...I am afraid to love him and yet I can't stop feeling so hurt. Every time he's nice to me, I think to myself that it's just him being nice, nothing else. But I want to hope...
And so I wish that he won't be nice to me anymore. Get away from me...Not speak to me...
Because I might just fall in love with him so hard if he keeps on being nice to me...
And it hurts me so...because I might just get hurt again...Just have to give up again...Just feel so worthless again....
I fear that the more I get to know him and like him....I might not be able to take it when he's near me....I might not be able to put up a facade time and time again.
Because right now...I might really fall in love with him...
And I'm afraid...that I might just lose something again...Lose myself on someone...Lose my feelings for someone...I'm afraid...I'm afraid to hope for nothing...I'm afraid....to fall in love...
But what am I going to do? When without even having proven that I really love him, I'm already hurting this much as to fear his kindness to me??!!!






