as i exhale, it seems almost as if my lungs shake, making the breath that leaves me feel uncertain and foreign. you'd think that since i've breathed like this for as long as i can remember that it'd become a home for me but it's still not me, something inside me tells me that something is wrong, that the uneasiness of my breathe isn't normal. i stared into nothing as i breathed like this, my limbs would sometimes go numb and the world would move in slow motion, sometimes my head would stop running thoughts ,and as much as i should, i liked it. i liked feeling nothing, the uneasiness of my breathe would somehow comfort me. i could forget for 5 seconds and sometimes that was enough.