maybe it's okay. i think sorrow suits me - i sabotage happiness. pour gasoline all over it and kick at it and provoke it. i can't sit still with happiness like i can with sorrow. it doesn't make me write or think. happiness doesn't fit my heart quite right. it never has. i can be alone, you know. i can be alone and i can be sad and i can take my pain in large and crippling doses and i can sit still and let it all catch me and wash over me and rip me apart and i can let the stitches come undone and i can let it seep into my heart and make me feel the blackest things you can imagine. i have that capacity. i'm that type of person. and in the end i can let it right back out again - it's like breathing in that way. i've learned to manage my pain, after all these years of having it. it's not new to me - just yours is fresher and maybe worse than what i've had before, but it's not a novelty. it comes and it goes tide in tide out crippling then fine then crippling, and i will sit and i will let it take me and i will feel what i'm feeling and i will think what i think and i will live with it like i've always lived with it, and i will not hurry to heal, and i will not force any sort of happiness, because people need sorrow like they need oxygen. it is something real and necessary and raw. i can feel it and still survive. i can let it in and let it back out again, and i will be fine. and i don't need you to know that. and i don't need to tell you. and i don't need anyone to worry. because this is part of what i do, and how i am, and i can control my dosage, and i can control my suffering. it suits me. it does.