doing this with anything is an awful hit, but god, there are so many youtube accounts that serve as the last existing records of so many dead people's voices. feels especially perverse
life is a spiral and you will meet almost the exact same situations again and again at different stages of your life. how will you react now? will you meet this challenge? will you do what will push you forward? are you ready?
My father called to "discuss" my mother but we went over none of the facts or feelings that were a consequence of how I was treated, specifically during my engagement. He immediately requested I apologize to her.
"Some things shouldn't be said."
"I said what I said to prevent all future contact from her- why would I apologize for getting what I want?"
I didn't notice until the 15min phone call ended, but it was the 15 year anniversary of my suicide attempt & psych ward stay.
I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache
of all the things tumblrinas say to indicate that we’re losing it, “I’m rattling the bars of my cage” is one of the best. like, this thing you’ve shown me has hinted to me that there might be a world beyond what I am intimately acquainted with. a transcendent beyond in which I would be free in a way currently unimaginable to me. I’m glimpsing for the first time the possibility that what I had understood to be reality might be something I need to escape from. I haven’t quite stepped into the beyond yet. I’m still in the cage. but. I’m rattling the bars