Late Night Emo Girl Thoughts
My best friend told me that I dumb myself down to match the energy of the guys I date. They’re boring. They don’t have ambition. They’re just tolerating me. They flaunt me around like I’m a trophy, and when they’re done, they put me back on the shelf until they need to be this exquisite peacock again.
My needs and wants are never met. Something as small as “can you please acknowledge that you have a girlfriend?” was like pulling teeth. If I wanted to go out and have fun, it took so much convincing. Or I would have to pay for everything. The only thing I was ever good for was sex. Because I was convenient. And I thought that if I had sex with these people, they would love me. But it was never me that they loved. I thought if I stopped talking about my ambitions, my hopes, my dreams, everything I wanted, maybe I would be able to be more like these people I was with. Maybe they would find me more relatable. Maybe they’d feel better about being with me. Maybe they would love me.
So I began to lose myself. I wouldn’t tell anyone what kind of music I liked. I wouldn’t tell anyone what my favorite movie was. I wouldn’t say what my hobbies were or the food I like to eat. I became the most watered-down version of me I could. I became the perfect mold for these men to work with.
As I lost myself, I was so hoping that someone would love me. Because who wouldn’t love someone that became exactly what they wanted? I began going out of my way to make people happy, just hoping that someone would notice. Or care. Or even love me. I wanted more than anything for someone to love me, I was willing to do anything I had to.
I beat myself down to practically nothing because I wanted to hold on to these people who didn’t care about me. I wanted to be in their lives even if that meant embarrassing myself. I blew up their phones, I said stupid things, all because I was terrified of losing people in my life. But they were never even there to begin with.
These people just wanted to claim they had an Asian girlfriend. I was just a fetish to be checked off. I was never seen as a human, yet I was willing to give these people everything.