I'm not good at tying relationships
I'm a housewife in my forties. I like Shinto and Buddhism. However, I quit after 3 years due to a female friend I've been on good terms with until now, and the lessons (ikebana) I started doing because of a long-cherished wish (ikebana). My pattern is that my self-esteem is hurt by “words,” and we break relationships.
“If I were you, I wouldn't say that”... I don't want to go out with people like that because they're too pure, even if I say it myself.
A female friend I was on good terms with is a “sync” from my former workplace. I was unemployed when I quit my job, lost my home due to the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and was living as an evacuation with my parents, but since my mutual friend got married, I was invited to “celebrate my marriage” from the same period. I declined due to my circumstances. If I were the only one to secretly celebrate with friends around me without telling them anything, maybe they thought it would be bad for me if they found out later. But that wasn't said by the same period. I felt the temperature difference in her, who had not been hit by an earthquake. Even so, I somehow switched my mind, and after that, we kept in touch with each other for about 5 years and attended each other's weddings, but after all, we often felt a temperature difference between our peers, and they moved away from me.
When it comes to ikebana, “○○-san is winning,” I was compared to students who had the same level of arrangement, and I couldn't enjoy my hobby, so I quit.
I haven't made any new friends since I was 23, and I just have friends who are connected through New Year's cards. I've been my childhood friend since elementary school. There are times when I live far away from my parents' house and my friends, but I haven't met them, and I don't want to meet them.
I like saying funny things, talking, and laughing with people, but I'm not good at humans. Especially after becoming an adult... Actually, I wanted to volunteer in the future through ikebana. I was vaguely thinking about that even though my body was weak. It's almost half of my life, I don't have children, I haven't been able to live a life with my feet firmly on the ground, and I'm also impatient with myself. I don't know if it's the cause and effect of not having a relationship and not trying to keep it up until now. Even so, humans aren't good at it. I get peace of mind from praying in mountains, forests, shrines and temples, and playing with my little niece. I like beautiful things. Is it weird that humans aren't good at it? Can I leave it like this?
