I don't know why I torture myself. Its like a trainwreck really, I can't look away, but I really really want to.
Facebook is like this for the "sub-fertiles" of the world. Even after you've hidden all of your mommy friends because seeing cute pictures of their adorable children and learning all about the time of day they are awake breast feeding their adorable infants makes you feel sad, jealous and left out of a world you may never be a part of...you still aren't safe. The lucky fertiles out there still find their way to sneak into your newsfeed. And when they do, that sting returns.
Yesterday I found out a member of B's extended family is pregnant via facebook. She got married just 6 months ago and yesterday announced, "... we've got ao bun in the oven. We're SUPER DUPER excited."
And I'm "SUPER DUPER" jealous.... I'll never be that person who gets to have that joy and blissfully ignorant view of pregnancy and the ease at wich it happens. I'll never be that person who doesn't carry around the emotional and physical battle scars of years of trying to get pregnant that wound parts of your soul you never knew were there. I'll never be that person who can actually plan when they want to have their childern.
I'm jealous, and it makes me mad at myself! Which is the last thing I need right now, self-deprevation. I don't want to be jealous anyomre. I don't want to be sad anymore, but I don't know how not be. I guess maybe I just need to acknowledge those feelings, let myself feel them, and then try to let them pass and not hold onto the sadness and jealousy.
But facebook sure doesn't make that easy.
At least it feels good to place blame somewhere... Stupid facebook.
B (the hubby) suggested that I start writing in a journal to help me deal with the emotions and pain of our not so easy journey to build our family. It took me 2 years to listen to him, but I finally did... So, here's my journal. Simply my space to get out what is inside of my head, as I try to live peacefully in the present moment, while awaiting our child, wherever he/she is coming from...
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. "
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16 June 2010
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