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Transition Period
Janet Ossebaard
TRANSITION PERIOD
I know, I have been very quiet over the past few months. Forgive me.
A lot has happened, yet I couldn’t find the words to write something that made sense.
Today is called November 2, 2023. I don’t have a clue as to what that even means anymore.
My time perception is getting worse and worse, and if it weren’t for the outside world, it would have been gone by now. Occasionally I have an appointment, that’s what keeps my idea of time alive. When that falls away, I’m timeless, dateless.
We moved house and country a few weeks ago. We drove for 3 days straight and arrived at a beautiful place in nature. I speak five languages but I don’t have a clue as to what people are saying here.
I have changed my name. Not for you guys, but for the locals here. Not that I get to see many…
It feels like I’m in a transition period. I want to sever myself from my identity with Janet Ossebaard. After all, that identity is what is keeping me trapped in this dream. I know it’s the next step, but what I didn’t know is that this transition period would feel this weird, this disorienting.
Days go by. I still sleep in my tent with Claudy and Mims. Temperatures at night are around 7 degrees but my little tent feels warm and comfy. It’s a small greenhouse, so to speak. I am so glad we left the heat. I just love the cold on my skin. My body was built for ice and snow, not for heat. It’s like I can finally breathe again. The land climate here makes the cold just lovely. Not wet, like in the Netherlands.
God… how I don’t miss that country…
There are hardly any chemtrails here. I cannot even begin to tell you how different it feels not to be bombarded with poison, like in our previous place. The air is clean, my lungs feel different.
Today is also the first day after several weeks (a month?) that my laptop is open. I just couldn’t do it sooner. Like I just said, I feel strangely disoriented and quiet. Contented, but sad at the same time.
Memories of my childhood have come flooding back from a secret place in my brains, a place even I could not remember. They surprise me with their presence. After many years of psychotherapy and soul searching, I thought it was done. I really believed there were no traumas left to deal with. I was wrong.
I remember how lonely I felt as a child. Two sisters, but no real connection. A dominant mother, watching every step I made and making all my decisions for me. A kind and erudite father, who was slightly autistic (like me), who loved his family very much but who was never taught how to show that. My mother hit me. A lot. Whenever she felt like it was OK to do so. Sometimes I didn’t have a clue why she suddenly slapped me in my face. Hard. When I later confronted her with it (in my years of therapy), she denied it was hard and often. She called it an occasional pedagogic correction. She really had/has no idea how terrified we all were of her. Once, a friend asked me what my childhood was like. My answer (that I didn’t really think about, I just spat it out) was: “Like a concentration camp”. She allowed no personal growth, no personality development, no authenticity. She decided what we would wear that day, what our hair should look like (she cut it herself), whether or not we could go out (always NO), we weren’t even allowed to pick up the phone or make phone calls. She did take good care of us in the sense of safety (I wouldn’t be surprised if she had endured sexual abuse as a child), but it was like a god-damn concentration camp.
There was no space for adolescent behaviour. No loud music. No anger or anything that didn’t fit her idea of the perfect children in the perfect family. When I went to Groningen University (I was 18), I didn’t go out, I didn’t party, I didn’t drink or do drugs. Sounds wise but it wasn’t. I was mind-controlled by my mother, and subconsciously I guess she would be around every corner to slap me hard. In the face. BANG! Out of nowhere.