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Ambiguity

I don't know who I am anymore. who I ever was for that matter. I hate that saying "I just have to find myself" it feels like a lame copout. an excuse to leave behind your responsibilities, an excuse that makes everyone feel like crap. everyone but you. nevertheless, here I sit at the bottom of a dark closet asking myself: who am I? that question is just a breath away from: I need to find myself. where does one go exactly, to find one's self? I might need to buy a ticket I have been so caught up in pleasing people, I don't know how to please myself. I want to cry. I want to feel that deep aching rip in my chest that comes with the choking toddler sobs. I want to taste the salty tears as they trickle down my face, tickling my checks’. I want to release this swirling scream from within my lips. I want, I want, I want, I don't know what I want. how could I? I don't know who I am. I wonder if there is really even anyone to discover? will I always feel this way? I can't remember before I felt this way. even though I am sure that there was a before. could this possibly be a feeling that people live with? I need air to live. I need light to see. I don't know who that person in the mirror is but, life goes on. Do I need simply to repress this feeling, like so many others: alienation, loneliness, longing, and now this, this ambiguity within myself. that is myself. I am... a question
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