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Saturday, 27 February 2010

This girl

is in a bit of a pickle.scrap that.
im knee deep in pickle.
and i dont like pickle:p

Game over.

This time exactly last year, me and my best girl decided to go for a walk, it was freezing cold, about to pour with rain, so obvioulsy, was without a doubt ideal weather for it.
theres this footpath that runs from one end of truro to another, via a lot of fields, farms and whatnot, so there we were bumbling sown this path, talking nonsense, decided was real good idea to have a little rest in a farmers field. We sat down, passed abottle of wine between us and laughed. I was always giggling about something. we carried on walking through the woods, down by this stream. then the storm started, and being the pair of 'on the ball girls' we were we took shelter under a tree.i know.i know!!we were listening to dons ipod, the usual rubbish music we take pride in, and she laughed so hard she slipped headfirst down the bank into the stream:) so theres me, dying from laughing so much, fishing her out by her feet, and convincing her, that 'no, of course we dont look like tramps' so i could get her to walk home! so we went back to where i used to live, and it was soo cold. so we sat on sofa, made mugs of tea, and hid under my duvet, listening to knocked up, by kings of leon.which was still on repeat when we wook up 3 hours later.
what can i say?!erm not a lot really. I'd like to say this sort of thing was a one off, but that would be a lie.about 3 weeks later we went paddling in the stream after a good night out-those boots were never the same.we've slept in hedges about 5 minutes away from where we live-cos its too far to walk. i've run into the sea with all my clothes on (fully sober i might add). ive jumped a four foot stone wall with a pony with no breaks and a broken arm.ive dressed up as a fairy to go to tescos far too many times to admit.i went to a lecture in my pj's at uni once cos all my clothes got locked in the halls wash room.ive died my hair the brightest red you can imagine.formed a spice girls tribute band (im proud).

That girl used to do all those things, and love it.Sure, Ed went along for the ride, but it lurked in the background, lived with, ignored, denied, dealt with.That girl had friends and loved to get up to no good and never hid away from her friends, and could always find the funny side in anything.

This girl has an eating disorder.she thinks about food, purging, staying away from her friends so she can give Ed the full attention it wants, her weight, and her inability to be good enough.she thinks of all the things shes failed at.she thinks about si, and feels like shes just a puppet, with si and ed moving her strings.she doesnt feel she can do anything anymore at all.because the voice in her head is so INTENSE and LOUD she cant hear anything else.

This girl feels like shes at the end.

xxx

4 comments:

Samf said...

Vics! You are still that same 'up to no good, fun loving' girl. Shes still there somewhere as is my crazy, 'lets cause some mischief side'
We cant let this evil ED side take over every piece of our lives.
Fight it, I know it hard, and I know its bloody exhausting, but fight back at it and slowly and surely it will shrink back into the background and the real, beautiful you will creep back to the surface.
I know you can do it hun.
Stay strong, big hugs, Sam xxx

mariposai said...

Sam is right. That fun loving girl is still there, and this is definitely not the end. There is lots more fun and happiness to come, so don't miss out.

This time last year I wanted to end it all, but now I'm so glad I didn't give up, because so much great stuff has happened in this past year that I am so glad not to have missed out on.

Better things will come, and Vic will emerge victorious!

Sarah x

Sairs said...

I agree, I can see that in you when you post still. I think right now, you are going through a really tough time and you've had some horrible bad luck. That doesn't mean though that this will be forever. Life does suck sometimes, but you know, it will get good again, you just need to give it time. You love making things right, maybe you need to just really concentrate on that right now. Find some really huge idea that takes lots of concentration or lots of time and sit and just focus on that. I mean really focus. Have Julian Paul next to you so he can whisper encouragement in your ear (I know he wants to because Ziggy is on the phone to him right now!) and just try and take your mind off of this. I know I know it's easy for me to say when I'm not in your boat and I don't mean to sound like a complete horrible person. I guess I just wish I could help.

This will pass hun! I really believe that!

*hugs*
Sarah

P.S. Ziggy says that he things you are really amazing and he is doing a special Ziggy dance just for you. Harold is blowing butterfly kisses :-)

Jessie said...

That girl is still there and reading all those memories makes me sure of it. I loved reading those stories and I laughed so hard about them! You will have good times like that again and things will get better.

xoxo

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