I need to let Carole (and by extension, the rest of the Amoeba) go. And I think I'm finally ready to do that now.
I said this to a few people already, but a general heads up (this is why it's a public post)... I don't want to hear anything further about any of them, good or bad. The good still hurts like fuck and quite honestly will until my own life gets more back on track than it is currently. I've still got a ways to go on that. The bad... Schadenfreude to me is like Burger King - delicious for five minutes and god awful for six hours after that. Plus... I'm just using them to hold myself back. Not healthy in the slightest.
Some tell me I have a right and every reason to stay angry, but the time to get angry about any of it was as it was happening then, not now when it's stupid too late. All it's doing now is getting in my way... and quite honestly I have enough methods of self-sabotage at my disposal to add one more. So to use a gaming term, I'm going to default to my nature and not my demeanor and just fucking forgive them already. All of them. For everything. I'm just so fucking tired of holding on to every wrong, every slight, and I know what I'm like, I'll just carry that shit until it actually does put me in my grave finally. Lord knows it nearly did twice already, don't tell me this shit doesn't happen for a reason. So I'm done. All accounts closed and squared. Clean slate as of now, yippee ai oh kai yay motherfucker.
Of course, letting myself off the hook is a slightly different can of worms, but hopefully if I learn from my past mistakes (and there were plenty; I am not a fun person to be around and certainly not an easy one to put up with when I'm in any kind of pain), I can also manage somehow to forgive myself as well. I know everything going to shit wasn't all my fault (sometimes it's too easy to take the whole thing onto my own head, others times I have to stop myself from absolving myself completely), but I can certainly take responsibility and atone for the parts that were. *wry smile* Builds character after all... I don't know any person that couldn't use more of that.
Anyway. I want to go into the next phase of my life, whatever it turns out to be, with a free heart and a clear mind. Here's hoping this means I'm making some progress in getting there.
( I've had this song in my head since last week, maybe now it'll leave. )