Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts

Friday, April 20, 2012

Lovefool (or my views on Love...)


I've been thinking about writing my thoughts on love and sexuality down for some time. Its really hard to sit here and try and present your view when you know its very far from normal.

Growing up, I never really thought about love. It was a very foreign thing to me. I had a lot of crushes in high school and I was never strong enough or sophisticated enough socially to pursue them. In fact, my relationship with girls and the female sex has always been pretty rocky since elementary school. I was always really a misunderstood outsider. I really still am. Most women lack the patience and courage to get to know me. I've set up really high defenses and only the very persistent have broken through.

I tend to come off as brusque and robotic. Even around men and other people I don't know. There is a serious air about me that clouds my sensitive and passionate side. I have often been compared to a synthetic life form or even an android because I come off as lacking the humanity and emotion that most average people generate.

I really wish sometimes that I had a skill set socially to engage others. But the later days of my youth and dawning teens were spent a lot cut off from the social progression of my age group. I was either stuck in rooms by myself or left alone at home. Most of these years, I had only my thoughts to entertain me and really did not learn how to progress and move forward socially.


There was quite little I really ever wanted in my life. And as my years peaked in high school it became clear I wanted a girlfriend. Most of my weak attempts to engage the opposite sex left me discouraged. Eventually, I gave up most of the notion altogether content to live as I always have been working toward as an old man in the Dune Sea.

But as time had progressed, a lot of my wants and desires as a human being began to become more clear and I was not happy venturing this life alone. I wanted to share myself and my existence with another. My guy friends all encouraged me to get laid, but I wanted more than that. I wanted a partner, a friend, a confidant, and someone to love. I have a very old world outlook on many things and this is one of them.

Love is the greatest power in the universe. It touches us in ways that no one can understand, and I want to feel that way about and share it with someone. Sex is often seen as a tool of pleasure and desire of the flesh. However, I've always seen it as a spiritual experience drawn into and shared between two physical forms. Its not just sex, but making love. Experiencing flashes of another's mind, body, and soul. Its everything you feel made flesh. If two people feel strongly enough these experiences can be beyond imagining.

Its very hard to sit here and write these things because I may not be able to form words to describe it. At the same time, Its almost as if I find myself building a up and romanticizing sex. I AM a hopeless romantic but still believe that this is how it should be. In reality, things can be just as intense.

I am a guy who relished ever caress and touch. The simplest gestures from holding her hand to running your hand up and down her arm. Its those small moments that give breathe and life to love. These are the simplest ways to my heart. I honestly melt inside every time I think about it.

These things are all pretty much rendered meaningless when I lack the courage and the strength to even kiss a girl if the moment presented itself. I still don't know what the hell I am doing.
I've experienced love before. I've been with a woman and explored every aspect of a relationship. These are not the ramblings of a love stuck child, but a passionate man. A man who actively seeks another to share himself. Good or ill, I am someone who will stand by Love.

--Nick

Sunday, May 23, 2010

"Never. I'll never turn to the Dark Side." (or My Struggle)

What determines our morality makes us who we are. Our thoughts give way to control which is used to temper our anger and forge our rational actions.

While I struggle to find my own sense of humanity in the refuge of my life, I find it harder to control and tame my darker impulses. Over the last few years I've done terrible things. Some in the name of love, others in the name of justice, and some things purely out of hate and anger. Maybe I was drunk and out of control, but these actions are still my own. I thought them out even if I had no control.

Years ago, I had spent my time working on myself. In fact, I spent a whole summer weight-lifting and training. I wanted to be physically fit and ready for the demands my life required. 'Why?' I tell you why. I wanted to be a Jedi Knight. No, not some freaky dork who dresses up for conventions. I wanted to use the spiritualism of the concept to help me control my own darker impulses. In many ways, I wanted to be a modern day monk.

I am my father's son. I have his quick anger...the patient 'Koonce Anger'. There is no doubt my sons will have it and there sons and so on. This is my weakness. I for some god forsaken reason tend to release it when in competition. I be playing a game. A game I've spent hours learning and mastering to be beat in seconds by just anyone who has never played it. Its a quick way to draw out my anger. Its why I never accept Andres' challenges. No thanks. I'll just flip out and break something or hurt someone including myself.

Some people suggest that I am bi-polar, but I just believe its something I will always have...and I will always struggle to maintain such demons.

My capacity for good is unequaled. I am a modern day knight. There are just so few of us left. But I also believe my capacity for violence and madness is its equal. Sometimes I feel like chaos and order in one body. I wish I could understand it. But I don't...

Until then, I will seek to tame my own demons. I will do everything to purge my maddening thoughts from my very skull. I will fight. Sometimes I wish I didn't have to do it alone.

But my spiritual guide is with me, and a friend reminded me of my own power to conquer such thoughts and feelings. He reminded me that even if it seemed I could no longer summon the strength. Its still here...and I'm gonna find it.

Godspeed

Nick Koonce

Monday, May 10, 2010

A Time for thoughts...


This is my first official Blogger Blog. I have written a few on Myspace, but had never really put much into the whole blogging thing. It gives me something to do when not obsessing about something unimportant and gives me time to reach back into the pit of my mind and pull out all the thoughts that dwell in that deep dark corner.

Now I know I should be writing something worth a damn, but honestly can't think of anything super important to highlight. Today was the first day of the week mind you...So there is nothing new to talk about. I could talk about last week, but it sucked so much that I really don't want to rehash it.

I know, I know....Lame. That is why I've decided to talk about what I am looking forward to this week. The biggest thing I need to focus on is my Workout....I have been a complete ass and have been neglecting a complete three day workout routine. This is probably why I've felt like shit as of late. Something has been off and I'm pretty sure it comes from my lack of routine in my workouts. Work has been hell on this because my schedule is always changing. My days off are no longer the same and my free time consumed by friends, This continues to be a constant struggle.

Another thing I am looking forward to is what's new on the Xbox Live Marketplace. I know that is a dork-ass thing to be concerned with, but the Xbox is my most coveted source of entertainment and R & R. Every week presents golden opportunity for me to Demo new games, buy discounted old ones and see what is coming to my box soon enough. I am really looking forward to Tuesday's Rock Band Judas Priest Track Pack.

And what I mostly look forward to this week is hanging out with my friends. Everyone I chill with this week and all the peeps I see on Drunk Friday. Whether it is playing video games, watching a flick, drinking a beer, or wasting time, my friends are my best pick me up. So thanks for being there for me.

Well, that's all I got....Until next time....

Godspeed