par·a·digm (pār’ə-dīm’, -dĭm’)
noun.
A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.
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My way of viewing reality.. has shifted. And not just by a small fraction, it shifted completely from how, what, and who I am before to what I am now.
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well, its not a surprise. I’ve felt it ever since last year, my principals that I held up high in my life have fallen apart one by one. My ideals, my goals, my perfectionisms have been poisoned by the so-called adaptation and reasoning. I’ve settled with things less than my standards one too many times for the last 3 years of my life.. I was lying to my self that I’m satisfied with what I had in me, what I had with me -when honestly I wasn’t- and I’ve always known, deep down inside.
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Result ? I’ve become a man less than the man I was before. I’ve said things I wouldn’t said before, I thought of things I wouldn’t even dreamt of thinking before, I done things, bad things, that I know I will never, ever do if I am still the man I was.
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Worse, I felt less guilty than how I should feel.. I know I should regret that I’ve done, said, thought of those.. I know I should feel guilty. I know I should be ashamed of myself.. I know I should be sorry.. but God help me, I just can’t. I want to, but I can’t. And I don’t know how to go back.. I don’t even know if I want to go back..
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Today, I slapped a female. Not once, not twice. Four times. FOUR frigg’n times.
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Not only that, I said things I have always thought of her, bad things, that I have always buried deep down inside, that I have always wanted to say, but have always held back.. because I was afraid to break the already fragile form of her. Because I used to care too much for our own good… used to love too much for her own good.. used to settle for less -way too much- for my own good.
I’ve done that much in one day, no, not one day, not even one hour.
And you know what ?
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I don’t feel a thing.
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Not a s i n g l e spark of regret or guilt. I know I snapped, I know I was angry -the angriest I’ve ever been for 22 years- I know I was dissapointed, very, very, VERY dissapointed, and I know I went berserk.. but regret ? guilt ? shame ? SORRY ? where have they gone to ? why can’t I feel them anymore ? what am I now.. ? what have I become… ?
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For all females that might read this.. I apologize. I have never used any form of violence to any other females as long as I have lived, and I have always wanted to keep it that way. But not today. Not TODAY. And not to her. Specially her.
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If this is what paradigm shift is, if this is what and how I’m going to live the rest of my life as, then so be it. I’m tired of being the nice guy that I have always wanted to be, that I have always want people to see me as. Let someone take over the role, I quit. I had my share of being dissapointed, of being cheated, of being lied to, of being bitched about. Its my time to do all those to people, its my time to pay back all the things I’ve experienced to the people that made me experiece those.
Starting from TODAY.
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This is not a blog entry, this is a declaration. This is a warning. This is a safety sign. Read it slowly and carefully.
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KEVIN MARIO OSCAR HARTONO IS NOT HERE ANYMORE.
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He’s off to a better place, where good guys get good things, where good guys don’t get cheated on a whim. Where forgiveness actually matters and not being abused. Where good guys find good girls, where lies are non-existent and constant dissapointment is an alien word. He went to that utopia and he’s going to be there for a good while. Not sure when he’s coming back, I’ll send postcards if I have time.
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So yeah, this is it. The end of the line. I’ve said what I want to say. I think I actually starting to feel glad I did bad things.. but what goes around, comes around. I might have to prepare myself for my own karma, its not going to be pretty, but bring it on. It couldn’t be any worse than what I’ve been through for 3 years, nothing could be worse, actually. So I think I’ll be fine. I know I’ll be fine.
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Today is the day where that chapter of my life called "Being Stupid and Nice" ends.
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The next chapter will soon start,
It won’t be very heartwarming, and I won’t be the victim like the last one.
*grins* I think I’m going to enjoy it.
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you know, my caterpillar, you will always be my caterpillar no matter what you’ve done to me. you will always be in my heart no matter how I despise you, no matter how hard I wished I never met you.. you will always be the one I care about.. no matter how many times you go on and off with random guys..
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you, no matter how pissed I am at you, I will always care about you… that one fact that I hate the most, but the one fact I can’t change. I hate how you make me to finally hate you this much… but..
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you…. just to you, who the crescent will always belong -no matter how much I HATE you.
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~v out