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            <title><![CDATA[How my ex-girlfriend did me a favour by blocking me]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:00:22 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I&#39;ve been told I&#39;m a monster by some, and by others an abusive prick of negative energy. Maybe I am all those things, but sometimes are you truly the monster people make you out to be or are you purely the victim of those who were around you.</p><p>More often than not in the world today people are more likely to believe the story of an ex-girlfriend over that of the guy cause hey, equality!</p><p>Now I&#39;m not saying I&#39;m a saint or nothing but I hardly believe that anyone could be as venomous or as poisonous as we make them out to be.</p><p>But that&#39;s just the beginning of my story.</p><p>Just last weekend I was sitting in the middle of the studio I work for talking to my master and mentor about my issues with the fact that I could never be alone with my thoughts.</p><p>3 hours later after a long talk and a little bit of manly crying somehow I&#39;ve sorted it out and suddenly it didn&#39;t matter that I was alone on Valentine&#39;s day this year (Sorry Crystal late night coffee and Pride + Prejudice + Zombies doesn&#39;t count).</p><p>Suddenly I could be alone with my own thoughts. The voices are still there constantly telling me I&#39;ll never be good enough. Anxiety reminds me that there&#39;s always work to be done, while Depression nags at me that no matter what I do I won&#39;t amount to anything.</p><p>But after Sunday the 2 constant demons I fight with daily suddenly stopped mattering and all that mattered was the music I work on.</p><p>I realised today while sitting in my room at 2 in the morning that this transformation started when she blocked me over Christmas over some misunderstanding of me sending heartfelt messages to people I love.</p><p>When she blocked me I felt angry, I felt annoyed, I felt desperate. It was unfair, everything that we were, we were supposed to be friends but suddenly I&#39;ve become this terrible monster of a person to someone who I held dear to.</p><p>And after last Sunday, it no longer mattered. She&#39;s free to do whatever she wants and react however she can. It no longer mattered.</p><p>I learnt after that another ex of mine only kept me on Facebook because of some pictures but called me a choice set of names and blocked me after I decided that I need to end this charade of friendship and start eliminating the various chains that held me back from me being me.</p><p>Now I&#39;m not saying I&#39;m there yet, I&#39;m probably not a good person either since my personal stance on things are decidedly neutral and very self-centered and I don&#39;t like blaming people for the way I&#39;ve become (despite whining to my best friends about how the world sucks and I&#39;ll die alone and alcoholic). But I&#39;m sure I&#39;ll get there someday.</p><p>I hope one day I can be friends again with the people who have left me behind or that I&#39;ve left behind. We all say things and do things that hurt each other but no one should leave the world behind with things unsaid or deeds undone.</p><p>I hope you&#39;ve found the peace I have.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=a643526f3359" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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