I’ve got so much going for me, yet so much against me.
At least technically I’ve still got time on my side considering I’m only 18.
Simply going about living feels like a contradiction because somehow I’ve almost come to encapsulate everything it is that I hate.
Fighting to live just feels like senseless “double-think” sometimes.
I swear I was making progress, maybe I still have, but right now it sure doesn’t matter.
I’ve got a sense of overwhelming confidence that time will heal me but have despair of the same magnitude.
It’s extremely painful cause I can acknowledge that there’s immense beauty in the world but I’m to ugly to be here.
I just want to be able to participate in that beauty and appreciate it again.
Someday…?
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I feel like I have a lot going for me too, I just cant find the motivation to climb out of the pit I’m in. Day after day, I waste my time and potential. We are still here though, so that means we haven’t given up.
I know exactly how you feel. Hehe, I’m only 16 and I’ve already predicted I’m gonnah fail my college course (college over here in England is like the second half of American high-school [i think] if you didn’t know).
The thing to remember is potential isn’t a universal thing. Potential in music doesn’t translate into the potential for physics. So, you need to figure out what you can actually do and then go out and do it.
Fighting to live. Yep. We all lose in the end, so why bother right now hmm? I get where you’re coming from but it’s not the most helpful way of thinking. Besides, you ever read the northern lights trilogy? What would you do, if you can across those harpys? Tell them how you gave up on life right in the prime of it?
Now i absolutely hate using the idea of an afterlife to manipulate peoples thoughts, so what, if anything, would you be able to say, that the world could remember you by? And don’t set your ideas of remembering to “cure cancer” or some ridiculous level, because that never works (Ever seen the bucket list?).
athousandleaguesunder,
get out there and participate, your just as good as anyone else don’t put up barriers on yourself, and don’t expect to win every time, nobody does but with practice you get better at it.
I feel that what you just write explains my life..