I am only seventeen years old, and already life has lost meaning. It sounds ridiculous, I know. In my more stable state of mind I laugh at how ridiculous I am, how foolish I must be to think that life has no promise for a bright, creative teenager on the cusp of independence. However I might feel on my good days, I know that on days like today the reality of the crushing, empty pointlessness of the world is too much to bear.
There is a pain inside of me. It is like a hollow, black emptiness, a void of emotion where Despair and Hopelessness are […]