It was my birthday. To celebrate, we went to a store with lots of childhood friends (@Marc for example, or @Charlie from high school). In this shopping mall, there was a store like Fnac, selling all kinds of things: anime goodies, video game stuff, character-themed jewelry, cards. As I got closer to the card boosters, I was looking at them and suddenly felt an intense urge to leave. A nostalgia breakdown. I wanted to cry, to run away. I made sure no one saw me and left the store. I thought someone had followed me, so I kept running until I reached a sort of entrance or wooded park area near the store. A slightly chubby young girl dressed in white stopped me to ask something. I put on my “social kindness mask” to help her, even though I was not okay at all. Once she got what she needed, I ran off immediately. I quickly noticed that I was being followed — my friends were running after me, and I had nowhere left to run. In front of me was a house with a courtyard, surrounded by a kind of fence that prevented jumping over the edge. I was tired. Exhausted.
Tags #birthday, #store, #breakdown, #nostalgia, #escape, #mask, @Charlie(high_school), @Marc