the way i see it i have two options. option one is to continue to go through the motions. continue to pretend, and hide behind the thin veil of dignity i feel i have left. keep my acquaintances and the happiness that i have thoroughly convinced myself that i have, but in reality be miserable. option two: relapse admitting defeat, and accepting the failure that was inevitable from the beginning losing the things i had recently attained in the process of being clean: friendship, happiness, and hope. and circumstantially gain something i've lacked in the last eight months: the fear of exposing my true emotion. which is the lesser of two evils? suppress the protruding ache in my chest leaving me emotionally distant, or show the world how i truly feel?