Hi, everyone. Jeongmin Kim here.
And I have too many feelings for facebook.
Here's today's status that I would love to post that I never will.
Caleb, you were my first real boyfriend and you were the shittiest boyfriend imaginable. You introduced me as a "friend" to one of your cool hipster buddies after we had been fucking and basically living at each other's houses for 5 months, you kept my gift I brought you from Istanbul in its bag which you used to store your garbage, and you broke up with me over email because I wanted to celebrate our one-year anniversary. Look, that's alright. That's what first boyfriends do sometimes. They provide a template against which we can judge all future boyfriends.
I saw this license plate at a mall once and literally thought it might somehow be you.
Tragically, my addiction to social media means I don't get to see you disappear into the mist like people usually get to have happen to their first serious, vaguely emotionally abusive boyfriend. I have blocked you on facebook, unfollowed all your friends (I'm a performer so I can't just unfriend everyone- I might need their support for a project someday, dammit) but you STILL POP UP. It's been years, but I regularly have to feel those echo shitty feelings when I see your apparently now-trimmed beard and obnoxiously fit body. Before I finally managed to block you on twitter today (it was hard- I love followers more than feelings) I tortured myself by reading your tweets all the way back to May. Congratulations on dating someone. That's more than you managed to admit to doing with me for the aforementioned five months. Who knows. Maybe you learned from our failed relationship.
Here's the thing. I fucking hate your guts. Still. I fucking hate how I allowed you to treat me, how you made me feel unattractive, how my stupid, immature love for you and craving for a relationship made me accept from you what I would never have accepted from a friend. I hate that our mutual friends put you in videos and plays and shows because in spite of being a pretty bad person (at least to me) you're talented, which made it harder to end things.
Now this is what I want. I want you to break something. Not permanently injure yourself- just break it so that it is too painful to do anything other than do the absolute bare minimum- to and from work. I want you to spend this gorgeous summer- and a little into fall- recuperating painfully. I want this injury to reveal how shallow your girlfriend is, as your inability to fuck with this injury (go with me on this) means she's no longer interested.
Once the worst summer of your life is over, you may return to full strength. You may find a new girlfriend. I believe that this amount of pain will make things about even. I may even unblock you on Twitter.
I would never do this to you, both because I love not going to jail and I am not a violent person, but Dinnshenchas, who Google claims is the goddess of wronged women?
Please get on this.