I wonder if anyone would miss me if I died. I mean like really miss me. There is always a certain sadness that comes with death. I think its the permanence of it and the unknowingness that makes it really sad. Even the death of someone you don’t know or a family pet is sad, so theres no doubt that my death with be sad for some people. But I wonder if people will remember me and miss me. Like a month down the road will one of my friends see something that reminds them of me and think about me? Will they wish I was there to share a laugh or a special occasion with them? Will they go to my facebook or instagram just to see a picture of me, to remember the details of my face, or how I smiled or what good times we had together? Or will I become a distant memory, an unimportant figure from their past? Maybe they’ll see me in a picture and think “Oh yeah, that’s ‘what’s her name?’”. There’s no doubt in my mind that it’ll be the latter. And in that moment my life will become unimportant, I will no longer have meaning to them. I will be some dull distant memory. And my death, just like my life, will become boring, unimportant, and not good enough for anyone to remember. And that’s it. That’s the cycle. I live a unimportant life and will die an unimportant death. No one to miss me, no one to wish I was there. And it’s because of my unimportant life that I want to die. The only good thing is that I won’t be around for people to not miss me, and that makes it all worth it.
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I understand how you feel, that you would leave no impact or impression or merely a fading imprint. But having lost friends, I doubt that. Even people I was not particularly close to has affected me and I’ve seen it affect other people. The only thing currently stopping me doing anything is the impact it would have on my friends. Have you anyone at all you can talk this through with? I know we are not the same person with the same problems, but I have found help in doing this.
I appreciate the response and I’m very happy that you have people that are stopping you from doing anything…you are very lucky for that! But I guess that’s really my point. While I do have friends/family who would ‘miss’ me, I don’t think that emotion would be genuine. I think in society, when someone we know dies, we grieve and go to the funeral and tell stories/memories about that person and we ‘miss’ them. But I don’t think anyone would have the real emotion of missing me, like their lives wouldn’t change because I’m not there, they wouldn’t want me there. Their emotion of missing me would be superficial. I don’t know if that even makes sense.
But I am very happy that you have a reason for surviving 🙂