Tears slowly rolling down my discolored face comes from pondering my short fate. I listen to my left blinker click in the distant background of my thoughts while I wait for my turn to enter the freeway heading east toward the dusky sky. Getting the green arrow, I squealed the tires on my red Mustang GT. The car rocketed across the stretched road onto the freeway. I made my way through six lanes of traffic into the carpool lane. My heart matched the speed of the car, which became a hundred and forty miles per hour, and my stomach was left behind at the signal light. I reached into my cigarettes and nervously placed one in my dry mouth. I flicked the lighter and watched the sparck burst into a flame that commenced dancing to my impending doom. Taking one last drag off the disgusting stick, a wounded laugh was forced out of my mouth from know what was ahead. I calmly jerked the steering wheel to turn my engine compartment toward the south concrete wall. I finally reached the last few deadly encrypted sentences in my explicit book as the car brought me closer to the end of my short fate.
3 comments
First off, you’ve got a great way with words. Very talented.
Secondly, and I speak from experience, crashing your car, even at 120 mph, isn’t always a sure-fire way to die. I drove my car off the freeway going close to 100 mph and into a forest. My car was totalled, but I walked away with a few scratches.
I had to be thankful, though. I could’ve been paralyzed or a vegetable. What then, you know?
At least your car works that’s more than I got.
Dear Friend:
You’re in tremendous pain, and life feels very bleak and hopeless. But consider —
There are no perfect suicides.
The control we have writing about them is not what happens in real life.
First, many of us have tried to kill ourselves and ended up badly injured and in horrific pain — and still depressed. Not a good outcome.
Second, what about the other people you might endanger trying to kill yourself in a car wreck? I know you are going through a tough time, but consider that you don’t want to take innocent people with you.
I almost did it like the way you are planning — here’s what happens — people leaned out of their cars and yelled, “Are you trying to die? @@##$$!!!!”
That kind of got me to thinking — was it fair to take other people with me?
Consider calling a suicide help line, and finding a counselor. You still have chances for a happier life. One or two calls can’t hurt.
Cordially,
Struggling to Survive (been there)