Letter to Jason, Part Two
You trust me with possessions. Im quite sure that I could ask to borrow anything which is in your dorm room, and you would let me have it with very little hesitation. For Gods sake, you know what you once loaned me.
But you dont trust me the same way with your mind, or your heart. I dont have them. You wont share those, for whatever reason. And you know what? I dont care anymore about what difficulties you say you have with it. I dont believe that anymore. Because if theres nothing more to it than yourself, and the fact that a school full of kids ignored you, then you have no reason to be the way you are. But you havent given me the full reason, have you? No, I dont think you have. But once again, you probably wont admit that. You say that before I met you is irrelevant. You insist its not important. Well, if thats the case, why not turn the tables? Why not have me ask you why, if your past is so irrelevant, should I give you the key to mine? Everything in that binder, EVERYTHING, relates to something in my past. Whether its a past of when I was in high school, or if its an old memory that I happened to be thinking about, why should I let you read it? Theres a lot in there of before I met you. So, going by what you say about your life, isnt that part of the binder irrelevant to you? So, why would you want to read it? You claim these things with you are in the past, dealt with, and buried. Well, my red binder is full of the past, and yet, how much of that wasnt stuff I had to move on from? But its still in the past, so why should I let you read it? The things that I did have to deal with, that I have dealt with, and moved past, I still talk to you about. I still tell you about all of this stuff, I still give you pieces of my heart, my soul, myself. Yet, what do I ever get back? Dodges to my questions, and crypticism.
If you know about my insecurities, why do you do this? Why do you pull me close to you, and then push me away?
I dont know what else I can say. I feel as if I could talk until Im blue in the face, or type until my fingers fall off, but it never seems to have any effect on you. Or should I say, any lasting effect. Or perhaps Im like that guy who dug his way out of prison with the part of a nail clipper. It took time, but he did it. Is that what youre trying to get across to me? It takes time but it can be done? Then, Jason? Prove it.