I
didn’t go camping last night, I chickened out when my arse fell off at the
slightest touch of rain. Main reason was lethargy, and lack of equipment. The idea
is now firmly lodged in my mind however and I plan to purchase a tent soon. I can’t
go camping out in my big oversized jacket, no matter how snug it is.
I didn’t regret it when waking up bright-eyed at two in
the morning. It’s bad enough in a comfy flat. Sat under a tree, exposed to the
rain, in pitch darkness, with a headful of horror books and movies, ain’t no
good surely. In a tent it’s bearable because you can snuggle up and feel
safe/protected from the night.
It was the drink talking. I was on whiskey chasers yesterday, an idea which doesn’t usually even occur to me. And I was inspired by Natasha. She’s a service user in Pathways who lost her only child to social services. She was doing really well, over a 100 days, then relapsed for six weeks. I could see she had recently self-harmed. But she is bouncing back by a five day excursion to the Lake District. She turned up to apology in her camping gear and that’s what got my brain churning over. She looked like such a free wayfaring spirit. So cute.
I don’t know much about portable cookers, but I know enough about camping to deduce that chilli beans and sausages are essential under the moonlight. I’ll try again when I’m not half-cut. A torch, firelighters, a good book, water or pop…I’m definitely gunna look into it. I’ll stay local at first, and then maybe venture further afield. But you know what I’m like, don’t you really? Always talking bollocks. I never get around to anything. That’s why I intended to make a burst for it yesterday, before I talked myself out of it. Which I eventually did do.
The seed of re-using is back again. It came from erotic dreams last night. I’m always gung ho about it after such lewd affairs on the astral. I could get a 40 whizz bag in the morning and sit there all day. I’ve had to adopt my higher self to overcome carnal compulsions so far. The battle is only ever half-won, as you are already aware of. Yesterday I wanted to go and spend the night outdoors; today I’m thinking about sex. See the difference? One is a fulfilling hobby, the other is a destructive behaviour.
For me anyway. Please don’t let my own personal
afflictions somehow reflect upon you. You might be in your twenties with an
active interest in porn, wondering what it is I worry about. Full respect. I would
just plead with you to be careful that you don’t end up middle aged with
nothing left to live for except it. Still, so what if that does happen, then
where’s the harm? All I need is porn, I got my porn, I’m half-decent at being
satisfied with my porn. Raging success bro. But on a deeper level you probably
won’t be. There’s so much more to life than naked performers on camera.
Porn always made me depressed afterwards, from the beginning. But it was so titillating, I always returned for more. Now a part of me sees it as just people being stupid, playing around with oil and toys. It all feels amateurish to me. And because I live in a <permanent state of psychosis>, it’s not long before the videos become part of my condition. The women will start giving me instructions, or making more eye contact with the camera than they did at the real actual time of recording…the portals will open and I’ll be made very unwell, all in the course of a single afternoon’s entertainment. When I was younger the porn houses used to be called Evil Angel and Diabolic and other heathen names, and with me, and the flowery tendrils of my contagious ‘illness’, it was easy to see why.

