Honestly, Seriously -- 9/18

Well now. I journal. Yea, I journal. I have my little book. I scribble my honesty in it. I talk about my day. It's nice. But, I'm bored with it and I want to type instead. And I actually want someone to read it. Why not? I don't hide shit any more. Not from family, friends, or whoever. I've learned that whatever I hide will eventually have to come out some way or another.

How's that for an introduction? No background or history. That's perfect for me. Today is a random day, so I can just start typing whatever I feel like. My name is X. It's X because I like that letter and I hate my name. Why is totally irrelevant. So, let's get this thing going.

Let's talk about fantasy football. I'm a winner. My league hates me because I have influence and use it. Fuck them. If they want to whine, let em. I don't care. I made the best trade ever today. I got the best football player in the league for two under-performing, young players. It's all about what you have to give, not what you're willing to pay. Nobody else in the league had to firepower to grab this guy. So I do it and everybody gets super pissed off. One guy, a good friend of mine at least I thought, talked about quitting. Gotta love those sore losers, especially those that like to repeat their ineffectiveness year after year. That guy pays the same amount of money to play as I do. I really love fantasy football, so this will be a repetitious subject for this blog.

Also, today was the third Wednesday of the month. Every third Thursday of each month, I get "my" buprenorphine. How I get it is irrelevant, but I get it. Bupe has allowed me to live a much more normal life over the past year or so. I was such a dickface before that on opioid pain meds. I didn't steal, but I was the world's biggest liar. You know? I'd just lie to everybody for no reason. It became so bad I started believing my lies because I had to remember so many and all their depths. Pathological lying is pretty intense. It's like living in a world that's perfect for you, awful for those who care about you and completely false. This type of lying goes hand in hand with illicit/hidden drug use. I could get soooooo high and socialize without anyone ever knowing.

I think a lot of people believe they can do this as well. I don't know about that though. I have a few friends who have said, "yea, when I was on heroin, nobody could tell but i was fucked up." Well, I didn't crush their delusion, but you could tell. Everyone could. The only reason I know about how effectively I hid my habit was because of my intervention. It wasn't really an intervention, it was the reaction I got when I came clean about abusing pain pills. My family and my girlfriend were TOTALLY caught off guard. I had money, I slept regularly. I mean, I'm really not trying to glorify my using but I was a fucking amazing liar. And it sounds like I'm proud of it.

I am more ashamed of this than anything else in my life, including my small(ish) penis and lack of sexual ability. Now, years later, I am still treated like a criminal. I never stole anything from anyone. I didn't need to do that to maintain my lifestyle, had a good job. Now though everybody is always skeptical as to whether I am actually clean. I purchase drug test strips in bulk off of ebay just to show my family. They were so hurt by the extent to which I went to cover my ass. I really don't know if they'll ever really trust me again.

I don't want to talk about this kinda shit all night tonight. Today was a fun day. The high was seventy one degrees outside. I went to the local park and played disc-golf. I scored three under par. That's the kind of thing that I wish I could think about and want to write about all the time. I want to talk about my great job and how well it's going with my fiance. But, I don't have that right now. I paid a price to get away from abusing drugs. It cost a lot, but it was totally worth it. I think that's all I have for tonight though.

Final thought: Fantasy Football is not for the weak. It's a social game and social skills certainly come into play. The weak are meat and the strong do eat.
 
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