My aggressive journey to say a few words. (AKA) I'll be saying stuff that won't matter to many of you but it'll ALL mean something to me.
Published on July 19, 2004 By wnx_decoy In Life Journals
When you walk into a quiet room and you know it's that way because of something you've done, what do you do? Do you ignore everyone and add to the selince? Or maybe you start trying to talk to everyone in hopes of getting their mind off of it. Maybe you could just try and please everyone be just leaving them alone and praying that whatever you did wrong will be in the past by the time you've returned to the room again.

I've decided to go another route that may be garder to deal with. I've decided to go make one more person ungappy in gorpes that the maforite will forgive me. The one person that was with me when I walked into this room is the one that I'll, most likely, end up leaving behind. ...Though I hope not even this one.

I don't know if what I'm doing now is helping, but, hopefully, it is. I've been standing here, listening to people whispering about me for a while now, and I think it's time to end it.

I messed with one of my friends earlier not knowing the full consequienced of my actions, and I don't see myself getting over THAT fact any time soo. In fact, I KNOW that this one is going to take some time to make-up, and I also know that I can't do anything that'll make everyone happy at this point.

As it has been stated before, I was irresponsible, mean, rude, callous, and many other things along those lines. All I can say about what I've done is that I thought I was doing the "right" thing, considering the circumstances. I see now, that I was wrong, but I"m trying to fix this now.

I"ve always considered myself to be a very cool, calm, and typically collected human being. From what I see now, looking back, I wasn't being me. When Brandon Costlow doesn't thinak about others first, we need to take a step back, and that's exactly what I'm trying to do.

I"m just gonna go back to July 13th because that was a day of peace for me.

The whole time I was doing all of this, one thought kept running through my mind... "Will God like that I'm doing this?" The whole time I was getting, "I don't know." for a response. This last time, however, I asked if God would aprove of me trying to start over, and I got a demanding "yes!" back.

I realize I can't solve all the problems I come up against, but I know God CAN. If I can get him to aid me in my journeys I'm sure I'll manage.

My only obstacle now, is cleaning up the mess I"ve made. If my round-about apology isn't enough then I'll do whatever it takes to make it up to everyone.

I recently had to break up with Ashlee because I read a few comments about getting to know people before making these kinds of decisions, and now, I'm willing to say I'm ready for round 2. I"ve made a couple new friends, strengthened friendship, and wanted nothing but the best outcome the whole time.

If I ever seemed to not care it's because I was confused, not because I really didn't care. Being called things I've never been called before relly hurt me. I've always been the kid to go to for help, but when people are trying to help me I push them away. I guess the adjectives used were necessary to get my attention though... So, thanks dharma, poetmom, bigdreamer, and everyone else who stepped in to try and show me that I did this all wrong.

Hopefully, this has shed some light on my side of the story, and explained some of the reasoning behind my actions.

One last thing before I let you go... I'm sorry for hurting Ashlee and Ashley, I'm sorry I did the things I've done, and I'm sorry I pulled half the world into it.

Capt. over and out!

Comments
on Jul 19, 2004
One last thing before I let you go... I'm sorry for hurting Ashlee and Ashley, I'm sorry I did the things I've done, and I'm sorry I pulled half the world into it.


Brandon....this article shows that you really are the mature, responsible teen I thought you were/could be. I hope everything works out for you, and that things start to look brighter over the next few days. I'm sorry if I said anything to hurt your feelings, and I appreciate being mentioned as someone who helped you to look at the situation in another way.

God bless you!
on Jul 19, 2004
If I ever seemed to not care it's because I was confused, not because I really didn't care. Being called things I've never been called before relly hurt me.


I know it wasn't that you never cared or anything. I relize that everyone called you everything and hurt you with the words they said, and I guess partly because of me. They told me that since I was hurt they were hurt. And I guess they shouldn't have said all of those things for you, and for that I blame myslef. Maybe I shouldn't be, but I feel like I need to take responsiblity for what was said to you just because I was hurt. I do appreciate all the help and support, but now I feel like we(me, you, and ashlee) should've talked about it ourselves with not as much other people getting into it. But I guess that's what you get for putting something on Ju about it. So I guess what we've all experienced is a lesson well learned here. I expect things to cool off with in the next couple of days. If you're doing what you think God would want you to do , then keep on doing it. Don't let others get in your way. So I guess what I'm trying to say here is that I'm sorry if you were hurt in any way during this whole thing. Even though you hurt me I'm still and always will be there for you and forgive you. So now if you'll just forgive me, and then we can all try to put on a happy face. And I'm also sorry that you had to hurt someone else.

~carebear~
on Jul 19, 2004
I know I said I was on a JU vacation... but you told me you were writing this, so I told my self leaving you one comment wouldn't hurt.

I'm sorry, that I was the reason you were called names. I'm not going to go on about how I hurt. Because I don't think it really matters to JU people at this point. Which is okay, I understand.

Let me just say, Life sometimes throws obstacles at you, You just have to be strong enough to overcome them.

Right now, I don't feel strong enough to hurdle a toad. But I'll be okay.

Ashlee
on Jul 19, 2004
'm sorry, that I was the reason you were called names.


I don't really think you were that reason. I don't know why, but something just tells me you weren't. (if that makes any sense)

~carebear~
on Jul 19, 2004
Something tells me I am. If I wouldn't have posted that first article. none of the names would have came to him. You would have been able to find out the "right" way and chances are, we'd all still be hurt. So I guess that's just life for ya. You may think you're doing something "right" when it turns out it'll only cause pain.

Sorry I don't sound too optimistic today.
Ashlee