my friend died. like 12 years a friend. a year ago. she had two kids. my boyfriend died. like 11 years a boyfriend… 7 months ago. my other friends died along the way… one even died on my birthday… damn it, bridgette. my best friend in high school hanged himself an hour after i dropped him off. yeah. when a person does it, the past tense is “hanged” and not “hung”… inanimate objects were hung, while people were hanged. ohhhh, the semantics and syntax of it all.
why… am i doing this again? if i ever kill myself, it won’t be from a lack of anything. i am fully aware i can love again. i am fully aware i can go have a family and kids and a career. i am decently attractive as-is and it wouldn’t take much to be more. i’m awkward as fuck but that’s totally manageable; i just have to put myself out there and i firmly believe and know it will become easier. i am smart… if nothing else, that is the single affirmation i trust in daily. my single selling point. i don’t want to love again. i don’t want to be raw… and i am scared of guilt and loss. i don’t have the energy. i am so tired… and so aware. everyone i ever chose to love is dead. everyone who ever really knew me and loved me after is dead. and yeah…. there can be more people. they’ve offered. i hear it. but…. we’re on this big fucking rock that’s hurling through space… and people abuse puppies. priorities, man. motherfucking priorities.
why……….. am i still doing this? so. about a month before my boyfriend died, my sister’s boyfriend shot himself in the head. she found him. drugs and alcohol were not involved. i sleep in his room. she needed financial help. i can do that. that’s why i can’t. i guess. the one thing i have control over. i might die by accident… and that would suck for her. but the one thing i actually have control over… is to hurt her or not like that. i need a lobotomy. for real. sign me up. dumb and happy… that’s all i want to be. fucking ghost in the shell.
how do i kill these things inside of me… which obviously need to die… without harming myself?
i’m gonna have to delete this tomorrow. too much info. i had a friend, my first year of college, back at home, though… he lit himself on fire. made the news. this other kid jumped from the underside of a bridge. splat. most of the rest just overdosed. probably wasn’t intentional. maybe. only they know. always partially intentional but never full intent…. i guess they just “got lucky.”
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I am sorry for your losses. 🙁 I had an online friend who hated March because it seemed that was when she lost family/ friends. The burden of what you are going through is horrible. You’d be crazy not to feel as you do, no matter what someone might say or advise to do.
I wish I had wise words. I do want you to know I care what you are going through and hope the very best for you. That is what you have to do for you. Wish the best to find it’s way to you. You deserve it. The fresh pain of loss may make you unable to believe this, but you do.
As I write this, I have to admit that it applies to me too. And it is just as hard to believe I deserve anything. I am continuing to try. Hope you do too.
I said that awkwardly— that you may not think you deserve it. That isn’t what I meant.
Wish the best finds it way to you…
…it’s about letting life in when you can. And when you can’t… accept that but know you can let life in later.
P.S… I am glad you have your sister. And I am glad you posted, it makes me feel less alone.