Wednesday, September 1st, 2021
Update for today:
Recon went away, I feel a lot lighter and a bit relieved, honestly.
Yesterday was intense, and today was much more positive. I wasn’t stressed. I wasn’t dwelling on the past; I was just at ease.
I came to a realization, in a bizarre way.
After writing my entry yesterday, I was drained. I needed a healthy escape. Just forget about my issues for a bit to avoid burnout.
Earlier that day, during work, a co-worker of mine asked me if I knew about the new spiderman movie coming out soon.
I say this because it reminded me of how much I loved spider man growing up. He was my favourite superhero
You see, I had the 90s Spider-Man show on cassette, and I used to watch it all the time.
My favourite episode was the one with Venom in it, and I decided to rewatch it last night just for the nostalgia.
The episode is about a spaceman that grabbed a rock (promethium x) which turned out to be an alien symbiote, a living being that bonds with its host to survive.
Long story short, the symbiote gets on Spider-Man’s suit. He awakens from a nightmare to realize that he is in the middle of downtown Manhattan, hanging upside down in a black Spider-Man costume.
The webs are stronger, and shoot automatically. He’s super strong, and he can now change outfits on demand.
In this episode, he was falsely framed for a crime he didn’t commit (stealing the promethium x from the rocket ship)
And everyone was after him. He grew extremely frustrated with this false narrative that everyone believed.
As a result, he began acting out. Rebelling. In one battle with a villain, and he almost killed him with a steal door. This is unlike spiderman, as he’s one of the good guys.
In another scene, he throws one of the villains off a bell tower but sprays a web to catch him just before hitting the ground.
Spider-man was acting out for two reasons.
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The alien suit he was wearing bonds with its host. Meaning it slowly merges DNA with the host and gains more and more control over the thoughts and actions of this host over time.
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He’s angry that he’s being framed as a bad guy for trying to do the good thing, which was to save the astronauts from their wrecked ship before it falls off the Manhattan bridge.
I say all of this for one reason. This is how I felt in my last year or so of high school.
Being framed for something I didn’t do, caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Everyone believed a lie about me and hated me for it.
All because I tried to be the nice guy.
For me, I equate weed to that symbiote. It was something that took over my thoughts and feelings. It made me angry, and that anger made me feel strong. That IDGAF attitude, that was me. It felt like a superpower in the moment, but the whole time it was only to my detriment.
In the show, spider man becomes the one thing he was wrongfully accused of… the bad guy.
A self-fulfilling prophecy.
In high school, I was wrongfully framed as the bad guy. And that’s precisely what I became.
A self-fulfilling prophecy.
Spiderman eventually got rid of the suit, and so did I. And he re-emerged as his old self.
His true self
That’s all for today,
Till tomorrow
- Mat