{"id":130,"date":"2001-09-14T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-14T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamusutaa.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2001-09-14T02:40:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-14T09:40:00","slug":"i-cant-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2001\/09\/14\/i-cant-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t sleep."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nights like these when I wonder if I accidentally drank too much caffeine.  I can&#8217;t fall asleep, thoughts keep racing through my head.  Partly it&#8217;s about the events of the last few days, but mostly it&#8217;s one of those &#8220;what I&#8217;ve done with my life&#8221; sort of random thought processes.<\/p>\n<p>What does it always come down to?  &#8220;Why don&#8217;t I have a girlfriend?&#8221;  But then immediately followed by &#8220;Do I even really want a girlfriend?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s the laundry list of failed attempts dating back 8 years.  The one that hurts above all is the one who all the rest inevitably get compared to.  I can&#8217;t even say her name, as she may eventually read this, and this is not the way I&#8217;d want her to find out my feelings&#8230; if I even know my own feelings, hazy as they are; it&#8217;s been 3 years since I last saw her, 6 since I met her.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those weird cosmic things.  If you ever read the stories about how a couple gets together because of some weird coincidence, or some random event that occurs that shoves the two of them together and they live happily ever after &#8212; this is the complete opposite.  Through random occurrence, spooky events, and yes, a fair dose of lack of courage on my part, we never got together.  It was close though.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those things that&#8217;s always in your head.  A vow to yourself.  My vow is that if I <i>ever<\/i> run into her again, I will not let her get away.  Fate, it seems, wanted to make it difficult.  So I&#8217;ve left it up to fate.<\/p>\n<p>[long pause while I think of something to type]<\/p>\n<p>It seems the only way I can stop dwelling on the distant past is to start dwelling on the more recent past.  I already know which of the missed opportunities of the last year will be the ones that will keep me up at night years from now.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think I would do something about it.  But, what if I run into her?  What if it&#8217;s while I&#8217;m on a date with another girl?  Fate would <i>love<\/i> to do that to me.<\/p>\n<p>I hate my subconscious mind.  It&#8217;s always the worst case.  I want to go to sleep, but it&#8217;s not over yet.<\/p>\n<p>And tomorrow&#8217;s gonna be a long day at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nights like these when I wonder if I accidentally drank too much caffeine. I can&#8217;t fall asleep, thoughts keep racing through my head. Partly it&#8217;s about the events of the last few days, but mostly it&#8217;s one of those &#8220;what I&#8217;ve done with my life&#8221; sort of random thought processes. 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