The Diary of Elliot Parker

.: Entry Forty-One :.

My name is Elliot Parker. I’ve recently been sloppy with my thinking and it shows. Adrian kept the promise, and I saw him.

The evening was a bit of an event. A catalyst for a great deal of change.

So, I suppose I should say what happened. I went out with Clover for dinner, which was lovely, but I felt nervous. Which is unusual. But the was a bit of a difference when it came to meeting up with Adrian, who turned up at the meeting point having drunk three double rums. So, I said goodbye to Clover and Adrian and I made our way to the hotel he had wanted to use. On the way he told me about a couple of drunk girls in the pub that had kept interrupting him while he was trying to read. That didn’t make me feel great. Can you blame me I mean come on?

So skip forward to getting into the hotel room, that was around 7.30 ish. We got in, he went to the loo, came out and took out his wallet and gave me back the money for the hotel room, and then gave me more money than what was necessary to use my account to get help with his degree work. I tried to give him the extra and he said it was for doing him a favour and letting him borrow the account. I felt cheap, there is no other way to describe it. We sat and hung out chatting a little but he wanted some things that I didn’t feel capable of doing that evening, I felt a bit guilty and tried to give him what he wanted, but I wasn’t into it or in the right frame of mind, and I felt guilty. And worse than that I felt like I was a let-down, like a disappointment. I shouldn’t have felt like that. I shouldn’t have felt cheap or a disappointment or like I wasn’t living up to expectations. I didn’t want to be the old me that would pander and bend and do what was asked of me. I’ve been trying so hard to put myself first recently, and then I didn’t put myself first and put him first and did what he wanted, and I felt completely unaligned with myself. I wasn’t comfortable and it showed.

We left the room and hotel at 10.30. He wanted to make sure he could get home, the last train and all that. 10.30… 10.30… TEN FUCKING THIRTY!!!! I went from feeling a cheap disappointment to falling of the ledge into numbness. Then I did something stupid on the walk from the hotel to the train station to catch a cab, I told Clover I was on my way home. She went mad, she was fuming angry with him and the feeling cheap, like a let-down and disappointment got worse, it felt tenfold. I felt like pure shit. He then ordered an uber and paid for it instead of letting me get a cab. I got home, walked through the door and finally let the tears flow. I just felt heartbroken, whatever hope I had that his recent behaviour was a sign he had changed was shattered. I had hoped that he had become the man that I had always thought and believed he had the potential to be, but he smashed that hope. Smashed it to teeny tiny little pieces.

I was genuinely mad at Clover for being mad because it made me feel worse. It made me feel worse because she was making the issue I was trying to ignore, the feelings I kept trying to ignore she was waving them in my face. If I hadn’t been confronted with how I should have let myself be feeling I probably would have been able to bury it and hide it and forget about it in time. But no I had to be confronted and it made me feel shite.

She was really mad and I was really hurt.

That put me in a funk the next day I still felt hurt the next day I felt hurt, the day after I felt angry and hurt. I had enough. I decided I was going to get back to being happy, I decided I was definitely going to be happy and he would not stand in my way. How he made me feel was not going to stand in my way.

I deserved better than that.

I deserved much better than how he treated me that night. I deserved better than how he treated me during our relationship, during our break up and the time since. I deserve to be happy, I deserve to live the life I want to live. I had hoped and wished for so long that Adrian and I could sort things out, but that night was the night that the straw broke the camel’s back. I stopped caring if that was ever going to be an option in our future. I stopped wanting him, as he is I stopped wanting him, I wanted and hoped for the man I believed he could be, the man he has the potential to be because he is clearly clueless that he can be exactly who he wants to be that he keeps fighting becoming. He could be great, truly, but he is so keen to keep behaving and acting like a total dickhead. I wish that my hopes hadn’t been shattered and he had been who I thought he had come closer to becoming. It sucked, it hurt, I didn’t deserve that. I finally accepted my self-respect, my self-worth, and more importantly my self-acceptance and self-love.

I am worthy of not feeling hurt, cheap, worthless, a disappointment. I finally accept and acknowledge that on a much deeper level than I have ever done before. I still believe he could become the person he has always had the potential to be. But without becoming that and showing the change consistently, I am not interesting in coming into proximity with him again.

I had three-four days of being in a really low funk before I turned it around, I turned that around so quickly that I know I am getting better at this. It was nice to know that I can do it.

The 2017 Project

Well… So far, so good.

Last update I was working on a few of the 21 day challenges at once. I will officially tick them as complete after three rounds of 21 days just to make sure it sticks. I am hoping this will keep me on track.

So have I finally completed any 21 day challenges to my satisfaction? YES!

Make- A daily list of 3 positive things that I like about my day.

Make- A daily list of 3 things that I like about myself, physical, non-physical.

Make- A little notebook of positive aspects, a once a day entry of 10 things that are positive.

So I am still having to work on this one

Make- Eat at least one piece of fruit a day.

 

I keep trying to stop apologizing for myself. But it is very much, deeply ingrained and I suspect other things will have to change first. Starting with some self love and appreciation and probably a bit more confidence will help.

 

I haven’t done any Tarot in a while, I should probably also be practicing guitar more regularly and consistently.

My idea for nanowrimo has taken a back seat at the moment, I haven’t given it much thought at the moment. Like I said before goals 24 and 2 seem to be closely linked. Nanowrimo will be a totally new challenge.

I am making progress on a couple of the 24-7 goals. Actually… I can say I have completed goal number 1 now and goal number 15 (the habit swap… that doesn’t mean I will stop though I want to say it again that I completed it again and again). My current in progress goals are 3, 4, 10, 12, 17, 22 as well as the ones that take time and progress to achieve for the moment. I will let you know if I achieve more of them I promise. Anything is possible…

The 24-7 goals:

1- Write The Diary of Elliot Parker Part 2

2- Do NANOWRIMO

3- Write The Diary of Elliot Parker Part 3?

4- Write the first book of the big project

5- Finish spine tattoo

6- Finish magpie tattoo

7- Finish musical rib tattoo

8- Look for an agent/publisher for the “big” project

9- Learn to drive

10- Learn guitar

11- Finish knitting the cable knit jumper

12- Finish knitting the blankets

13- Improve views on here

14- See a west end show

15- Try and succeed at least three times on the 21 day habit swap

16- Win the lotto jackpot

17- Look for the positives more often

18- Meditate regularly

19- Keep making emotional progress

20- Keep hope and loose more doubt

21- Make posts for here in advanced, consider adding pictures, try to avoid leaving it to the last minute

22- Try to grow my hair long- aim for below the shoulder this year.

23- Become even more open-minded

24- Discover my own special brand of writers magic,

Habit swapping:

Break- Stop apologizing for myself so often. I do it a lot, it is something that really bothers me, mainly because I apologise for things that are completely not my fault and nothing to do with me. I am sick of apologizing for my own existence.

Make- Eat at least one piece of fruit a day. It is supposed to be healthy right?

Make- Write/plot at least an hour each day even on rest days. I have to start getting stricter on myself.

Make- Create and stick to a writing schedule. I have to start being more organised.

Break- Stop being hard on myself, speak kinder words to myself instead. That pretty much explains itself.

Make- A daily list of 3 positive things that I like about my day. Because sometimes it is easy to forget that there were brief sunshine moments.

Make- A daily list of 3 things that I like about myself, physical, non-physical. Because, it can be hard to show yourself some love.

Make- A little notebook of positive aspects, a once a day entry of 10 things that are positive. Literally a list of positive aspects about people, places, things; maybe one day I will post it on here.

That’s all I have for now, it might change or grow.

Three Years

Three years ago my Granddad passed away, one of the influences of my writing. To be honest, both of my late grandfathers helped me become a storyteller by nature and nurture. On my fathers side, my granddad would often tell me stories. On my mother’s side, the creativity.

The fish hook is for my Granddad on my mother’s side specifically. It is a nod to all the letters he sent with a fish hook drawn after he signed his name.

Intensely creative, a non conformist and a great inspiration.

So, yeah I miss him, but I feel like I have gotten to know him more since his passing, I feel more connected to him. Which is a little bitter sweet.

I got this tattoo the year he passed… the first tattoo I ever got. The phrase, “Promitto Memorari” is significant, those of you who read my work a lot will notice I tend to embed it into quite a few projects. Most importantly it will play a huge feature into the Big Project. It will be thoroughly significant to that story. That will be something to look forward to finding out the where the why and the how it will play into things.

I want the people, places and things I love most to be embedded into my writing because it is just as important.

So today, I am thinking about and missing my Granddad but I know that he is safe, happy and watching over me and making sure I don’t make too many stupid decisions, or at least I hope he is.

April’s first tattoo

The Diary of Elliot Parker

.: Entry Fourty :.

My name is Elliot Parker.

I am making progress emotionally. I am taking steps and leaps and bounds up the emotional scale. I am deliberately creating these better moods. I enjoy creating the better moods, the positive momentum to what it is I am desiring. I want positive things in my life. I want happiness.

What are my desires? What are my goals? My goal is to feel good. My desire? It is of course to feel good. It is my dominant intent to feel good.

So what do I believe? What are my practiced knowing’s that have turned into beliefs? I believe that everything is always working out for me. I believe that there is nothing I cannot see or do or want that I cannot have. I believe that what I want and desire is flowing to me. I believe that I am coming into a more consistent alignment with what I am wanting. I believe that there is an abundance flowing to me and through me.

What abundance? An abundance of happiness, an abundance of feeling good, an abundance of good things, an abundance of wanted desires. What else? An abundance of love, of hope, of relief, of joy of elation, of anticipation and of excitement. What else? An abundance of wellness, wellbeing, health. What else? An abundance of love, of joy, of attraction, of excitement, of expansive wonderful desires all that are wanted in my experience. An abundance of freedom, financial freedom, financial abundance. An abundance of creativity, an abundance of positive attention and intention.

Why did I do a mini rampage? For one reason, it felt so darn good.

My name is Elliot Parker. I regularly remind myself of this attractive wonderful rampage that flows what I desire to me. It feels good to just know that I am a deliberate creator. It feels good to know that I am creating my experience. It feels good to know that there are no limitations, that no matter what it is I am desiring, wanting that it has been created. There is the truth of it. I do believe in the law of attraction. I believe in love. I believe in joy and hope and relief. I believe in anticipation and knowing. I believe that the universe has said yes to what I am desiring.

So here is something amazing that people forget. We are made of particles, teeny tiny little atoms. The same things that form stars and galaxies, we are made of the stuff that creates universes. We are made of the energies that creates spectacular things, stars and planets and galaxies, and these particular pieces of the universe, these atoms chose to become you. That’s right, you are made of the universe just like I am, we chose to come into this experience.

I am sure that there will be some that disagree and want to call this crazy but who cares. I am sure that there are others who hope and dream of being part of something big. But here is what we have forgotten, we are already part of something big.

For so many years I lived in the discontent of feeling trapped in my life when I felt something bigger calling to me. What was calling to me? The truth that I am already part of something bigger.

That is how I know things are getting better. That is how I know that my dreams are growing just as I am.

I love being a deliberate creator.

What do I want to create next? I want to finish knitting this jumper I have been knitting for the last year and a half that I keep putting off. I like knitting, it creates something but it is also relaxing and fun and it can put you into a meditative stance when you have gathered enough experience whereby you no longer have to concentrate. I enjoy that. I enjoy knitting away and finding the momentum of what may have been troubling me slowing and losing its hold on the energy I am emitting. My point of attraction changes as I shift my energy to a place of ease.

Something that I realised recently, I grew up catholic. In the last few years I have gone from that point of belief to finding a looser term of what I believe. I have come to a new belief system, one that feels good, that I agree with. Now if I am asked to consider my religion or spirituality what would I affiliate with? I am spiritual, that is as far as I want to define it. I believe in the law of attraction. I believe that everything is always working out for me. I believe that what I am made of, what made me, what I chose to become part of has a pure positive focus and is filled with love. That is to say that there is no battle of duality in the way that it is conventional. There is a battle of wanted and not wanted, there is a battle of alignment and misalignment. But it is easy to figure out where you are, because you either feel good and know your aligned with pure positive energy or you don’t. When you don’t feel good, you find yourself wanting to feel good and so it becomes your intention to feel good.

It really is that simple.

Or in even more basic terms… the better you feel, the more you look for good things, the more you find them. It is your intention of finding good things to feel good about that brings those good things to come to be.

What you look for you will see. So what are you looking for? What is it that you are desiring to see?

So yes this diary entry is literally just my own rampage, my own place to rampage and feel good and bring myself into a better understanding of what I believe, I wanted to test what I believe and what I want to believe in. Now I know. I believe, I know that I am a deliberate creator. I am allowing my energy to align with my desires.

The Diary of Elliot Parker

.: Entry Thirty-Nine :.

My name is Elliot Parker.

I am a deliberate creator. I am at a loss of what to say. I know that everything is always working out for me, I know that I am creating my own future.

Recently, there have been moments, when speaking to Adrian I can see a true reflection of what is being held for me in my desires awaiting my true and best alignment. I can see the effort being made. The offers, the position of crossing the bridge. For the first time in a long time rather than saying “I am making no promises”, when I asked Adrian if what he said is a promise he said “yes” not the age old response I had come to get used to. I was sincerely really happy at the general progress. It was lovely to have made that step forward. Another step forward, was greatly appreciated.

That wasn’t the only moment recently that made me smile thanks to Adrian. He sent me photos of the apartment he has been looking at… It looks good. I mean he didn’t have to show me, and I appreciate the asking of my opinion it was a kind thing to do and ask. It was a cute apartment; I wouldn’t have said no to living in an apartment that looked like that. It’s quite easy to imagine working on my stuff at the dining table, cooking an experimental dinner in the kitchen and sitting curled up on the sofa knitting… It would probably be how I would live in an apartment that looked like that. I don’t mean that under the assumption of living with him, I meant that just under the assumption on living in an apartment that looked like that, though I wouldn’t be averse to living with him.

Another smiley moment? The invitation to go see him for a little while. He is away for work and his concern would be that I would get bored but that’s ok, because I am pretty good at entertaining myself. I would like to go visit him out there. I’d probably be a total pain in the ass, but it would be quite fun to just enjoy chilling out with him. Relaxing is something we have always been able to do around each other. Even if I do occasionally tell him off, I still find myself knowing that with him I am my truest self, the me that I want to be, the best that I want to be. So yes I do enjoy spending time with him.

My name is Elliot Parker, the truth is yeah I still really love Adrian, I strongly think that there will never be a day where that is not the case.

What does that mean for the Jonas thing? Well a crush that didn’t develop or get nurtured. Truth is well, we don’t really talk anymore, it’s just that now I have been making decisions to focus positively on my life and in that and in my absence in attention to our conversation the momentum waned and failed and that’s ok. It is good to have known and conversed in a way that expanded my opinions. I am happy that nothing happened and it didn’t progress, it means we can still be friends. It means that I can still expand my views and opinions.

That’s the thing though isn’t it, people come into our lives for a reason. They can bring new truths, make us better people, inspire us they can do so much to change us as people. We are always lead to those who help us most to grow, that is of course if we let them. So some goodbyes, even those that remain unsaid, like the fading of a conversation, that is ok. That’s the thing, I am always aiming to change for the better. I want to change for good.

I have already changed so much… For those of you who might not be aware of this, I have attended counselling on and off for about a year and a half now. The person who first walked into the counsellor’s room, someone who was broken and severely depressed no longer exists. My counsellor agrees. Yes, I still go. It helps, even when you are feeling better, you can go less often or top it up when you need it. But yes I found it truly helpful. I would give myself homework at first. I would try to keep a diary; each day I would write three positive things that I witnessed in that day. It sounds silly and simple. But it took looking for something good in each day to find it, at first it was small and inconsequential and after a while it grew. The world went from darkness to a spark of something brighter. And the more I looked for good the more I found it and the more the spark grew. That’s the thing once you build positive momentum when I suppose you can say you fell off of the wagon of happiness it can be a bit easier to find the spark again because you knew you could do it because you found it before. Yeah that is a long sentence. But it is important to understand that contrast is momentary when the positive momentum is what you are building in other areas of your life.

My name is Elliot Parker.

Counselling helped me. I am different to what I was. I am no longer holding myself responsible for everyone else’s happiness. The only happiness I am responsible for is mine.

Honestly yesterday, I was upset, in a bad mood. I decided before I went to bed that I had no intention of bringing that day onwards it’s negative momentum would be put to rest that night while I slept and the next day I would start the day from a place of positive momentum. And do you know what? That decision happened I got what I wanted and started the day from a fresh point of attraction, a positive point of attraction.