{"id":502,"date":"2011-09-05T02:36:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T02:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=502"},"modified":"2011-09-05T02:36:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T02:36:55","slug":"but-why-does-the-faucet-stop-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"But why does the faucet stop now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am suddenly thinking so rationally and logically about this.  Why have I moved on?<\/p>\n<p>After all the tumbling of the emotional road, I am here writing now.  Without tears.  Without wanting.  Without misery driven within.<\/p>\n<p>I am confused.  I am mixed up.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, I am not attracted to anybody.  I just want to have it all, but the intimacy is lost to me.  I want companionship, but I don\\&#8217;t want the burden.  Like yo lady said, I just want to be independent&#8212;I want to define my identity.<\/p>\n<p>I miss someone doing things for me&#8212;backing the car in garage, finding deals for me&#8230;and bragging about how great he is.  But I am back in loneliness and there\\&#8217;s a feeling that I want to flee far far away.  So that I can shoot myself, drag myself across a dirty rough pavement to feel real pain.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I went over to Francis\\&#8217; place.  I don\\&#8217;t know where we are&#8212;it seems like we\\&#8217;re both lost souls wandering this world, attracted to each other, but never crossing the threshold, because we know better, we know to keep our distance.  I hold my tongue so much here&#8230;keeping a tide of compliments, desire at bay.  I want to say <i>It would be you that I want to choose<\/i>.  But when I am with him, there never seems to be the right moment.  Either I am sulking about something or that I don\\&#8217;t want to ruin the moment.  So I still have not said anything at all.<\/p>\n<p>After bike-shopping, furniture-shopping, record-shopping&#8230;a long conversation over tea, we had dinner&#8230;and then there we were again.  Side by side.  I wondered and wondered&#8212;how and why.  I wanted to stop obsessing.  When I first walked into his place, I suddenly felt this cold wash of reality over me.  This isn\\&#8217;t where I want to be&#8212;it felt so foreign and unappealing.  I felt that I didn\\&#8217;t belong, that I was a stranger in a strange place.  Yet I started talking and it felt comfortable&#8230;and uncomfortable at the same time.  He morphed into someone I didn\\&#8217;t know&#8230;and back to someone again.<\/p>\n<p>If I went back or if he found someone, we couldn\\&#8217;t do this anymore.  But this is what we have right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am suddenly thinking so rationally and logically about this. Why have I moved on? After all the tumbling of the emotional road, I am here writing now. Without tears. Without wanting. Without misery driven within. I am confused. I am mixed up. Most importantly, I am not attracted to anybody. I just want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/?p=502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">But why does the faucet stop now?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j.unoccupied.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}