Hey, it’s ya boy, Fami, back at it again with another diary entry… Wait, i’m not doing this daily anymore so i can’t call this a diary no longer… damn.
Well anyways, i’m here again to talk about somethings that have been clotting my mind recently, first of all i want to address something i just figured out while on this heavy slump i’m having, this blog is called “Diary of Becoming a Princess” but it seems that it’s meaning has slipped my mind through all of the hardships i’m having, this blog it’s suposed to be about an outlet for my girly thoughts and anxieties about them, not just about my horrible mental health and my weirdness at tackling it! obviously i had written about other things in this diary but they where always related to my gender disphoria, or at least i tried to relate them to it, so i guess what i’m trying to say is that i’m retaking this (HOPEFULY THIS TIME) again as an outlet for that.
Guess i’m returning to my pretence of being Famiky again.
So let me start with a depressing thought just this time ok? I quitted “baking” class last friday, i don’t remember if i told you this (And i can’t be bothered to check if i’ve written about it) but the guy that runs the classes recived some scholarships from my city’s goverment and he ended up giving one to me, but that scholarship meant that now i wasn’t just a patissier student but also a general cooking student, it also meant instead of attending classes some days a week i was going every single day of the week, at first it was ok ’cause i didn’t really gave a damn about it, i mean, i thought that my unhappiness was brought up by my lack of formal studies at my age plus my lack of job (My Neetdom) so i figured “Well might as well accept the offer”, uuuuuhg, wrong move, first week was kinda boring but whatever, second week was learning about a ton of things i didn’t really care about, third week the same, fourth week the exact same, at that point i was feed up with it plus as i was then a “Cooking Student” that meant i had classmates again, most of them where really entusiastic about it and where always asking things and talking about different dishes and so on while i was always asking about basic stuff ’cause i don’t really know anything about formal cooking nor i care about it, so it was like i didn’t belong at all in there and that made me feel awful, so at the beggining of week 5 i told my teacher that i didn’t really had a passion for formal cooking, that i just wanted to bake sweets and be a patissier, nothing more, luckly he had figured i wasn’t doing very good in class so he offered me to transfer my scholarship back to baking again, i was happy about it ’cause for me it was hell just trying to talk to someone that had just gived me an scholarship saying something like “i’m sorry i don’t care about formal cooking at all” so i had to muster all of my courage just to tell him that and i had payed off!
Little did i know that thing where going to get worse from here on out, i was on baking again, and the first class i attended went really smooth, this time i had classmates again but they where just two of them, two 18 year olds that had been in class for almost two years now (I had been 1 year in class) but it didn’t affect me so everything went really well, second day though it went all sour, in the second day we had a comission for 130 pieces of carrot cake plus some local treat called “Cocada” made out of coconut, aaaaaaaaaaand while we where making them i made a ton of misses and failed at a ton of things i was supossed to be very knowledgeable at, so i was already at a bad mood ’cause i’m a horrible sore loser, but what made the day even worse was that at the end the teacher said “So there’s this argentinian chick i’m friends with and she’s gonna come in about half an hour to teach us how to make “Empanadas Argentinas” so if you want you can stay for that class” obviously i didn’t care for it at all but all my class was going to attend it plus another girl had just arrived to recieve that class plus plus my teacher was like “Soto, you’re staying right?” so i couldn’t refuse, so the chick arrived, stared talking about some things i don’t remember and then went like “What proportion of salt do you colombian people use in your dough?” and the whole class plus that other girl said something like “Something like 20 grams per kilo”, and the argentinian chick went like “Ah, then we need a little more ’cause we use a 30 grams per 500 lbs” or something like that.
I was attonished ’cause i didn’t know it at all, and these guys just blurted it out like it was common sense, i mean, it’s supossed to be common sense for anyone that works in a kitchen, except for me, ’cause i didn’t belong there.
I didn’t belong there at all
So the argentinian chick aproached me an told me “Dude we need you to boil some water” and i was inmediatly brought to my senses again, i mean, even people that had never touched a knife know how to boil water don’t they? i mean, i just need a fire proof container and a… and then it hitted me, in this kitched there are at least a thousand different things that i could use to boil water, back at home we just use a designated pot for that so it was pretty mindless but here i had a thounsand million options and i don’t know if i’m supossed to use that one or that one or that one… so i standed there, dumbfounded like if i’ve just been flashed that men in black flashlight, i completely lost track of time while thinking until the aregentinian touched my shoulder and told me “Is the water ready? i need it now” i died that moment, i hand’t even began to do the simple task i was giving and the girl was already asking for it, i lost footing, couldn’t muster a single and just stood there… until one girl in my class replied “Oh, i had already put a kettle to it, it should be ready now”
That just ended me, not only did it failed at the most simple task ever but one of my colleagues was so ahead of me that she wasn’t the person that they tasked the water with but still did it anyways, at that point i moved away from the table so that i wasn’t interfering with anyone’s job, i just stood there thinking and sulking and just losing my mind about what just happened until i broke, and in a embarasing, childish, rude, awful way of leaving i said “Teacher, i’m sorry, i don’t care about any of this, i’m leaving now, see you on friday” and before anyone could even say a word i had already packed my things and had gotten away…
That was the day of my birthday btw, the same morning i woked up to my family congratulating me and assuring me that i wasn’t a failure, that i had worth, i go and do that, so i arrived home, and obviously cryed myself to sleep.
The next friday i went back to class again, but this time i couldn’t hang on very long, i arrived full of anxiety, wondering about how everyone thought of my rudeness the other day, we started class, the techer asigned us pizza dough to each of us, i couldn’t concentrate at all, i stumbled through the ingredients, barely even remembering what i was even supossed to do while my body was shaking and my mind was spiraling down into madness, until i made a mistake while forming the base dough and i spilled a ton of water on the floor, i cracked, cried, told the teacher i wasn’t up to things, cried again, packed up and went home again, no longer that 30 minutes had passed since i had arrived, of course when i arrived home my parents questioned me, i cried again, shutted myseld in my room as fast as i could, inside i searched desperately for my cutter so i could cut my forearm but of course i couldn’t find it so i broke some metal tube i had laying arround and while crying i slashed my forearm multiple times until pain became unbearable and i cried the rest of the day.
I don’t even know how did i “recovered” from it, last time this happened (When i dropped out of college) a similar thing happened and i ended up shutting myself for a week straight, guess i’ve grown a little bit since then, while i was sad and sulking i remembered that i had this diary, i remembered how happy it made me while i was writing it and how it opened my heart in such a way it had ever before, so i decided to come back to it, hoping to theraphy myself again, hoping this last year i will spend it being myself, not being hiki nor fami, being Far Away Milky Way.
Random thought of the day:
“Who uses a kettle to boil dough watter anyways?”