Went out at night
Yeah, I’m surprised too.
It wasn’t as painful as I thought, but I did enter and exited beforehand thinking that I’d socialised 
But walking away I thought, I should actually make an effort… And it went well. 15 minutes turned into 3 hours.
Now, these are with my art peer group and I wasn’t shaking like a shitting dog, which is some achievement. The inner wound of “I’m not worthy they are above me and will judge me” didn’t exist at all, I deserved to be there even if I don’t like socialising at all. But I passed with flying colours.
Phoenix allowed my real self to show through and it wasn’t as life/death as before 
Conversely since the wound healed and self love is the new operating system, I’m wholly not interested in relationships anymore. That’s been totally eliminated. I see the try hard couples all out on the weekend so snuggling up thinking “what’s with the performance? Who are you trying to convince here?” Are they marking their “territory”? Thing is, I don’t care that much to enter your business like that, I’ve got me and my freedom.
They say "love yourself and someone will appear to love you back". What if I don’t want that? What if I’m actually happy by myself? What if that is a distraction to my own goals in life? I’m about to crush it in my creative practice, what does a woman add to this? Sure I’ll still be friendly and open and shit, but for that, I can’t be arsed. Chasing that love ended with LBFH actually settling inside with Phoenix healing that wound.
