All it took was one gentle swift against the wind & I would be plummeting to a world where I would never get to swiftly take my feet off the ground & call it a night ever again. It was scary thinking about the idea that life is just a code word for death & almost everything I have ever physically or emotionally touched has more significance than my touch ever will. Life reminds me of all the ingredients a smile is made of & why it takes so long to perfect it. My existential past, present, & future are all calling out for me now, but my vulnerable mind is nowhere to be found. I have never trembled so drastically before. I want to continue my stay to further my research on all of the reasons why humans have never picked me first in gym class, or why love has never reached out to give me a helping hand, or why my name was always at the beginning of the sentence that always ended with smiles turning into bruises & bruises turning into unwelcome memories. Life is a joke, yet it has the only punch line that has ever terrified me. The feeling of drowning has always made me think of what the true defintion of home really is. I'm so scared, but these tears won't be around much longer & that's really the only happy thought i've had in the past few years. A young boy once asked me what the meaning of life was, & my answer has haunted me ever since there was life before death & the only look I gave him was a look that even lightning would turn its back to; the only look in my life that has ever made someone other than myself fear the unknown; this is my apology to that young, innocent boy's eyes; this is my apology.
Writing this has made me realize 5 things: 1.) You can't run from air, no matter how bad you want to stop breathing. 2.) There is no such thing as being "fully gone", even after you think that you have found your escape route out. 3.) Writing your feelings down onto pieces of paper doesn't necessarily mean that people will all of a sudden come running to your rescue, apologizing for being themselves, & beg for your forgiveness out of pure love & regret. 4.) Not everyone can be the hero; but you must soon realize that just because you are not the hero doesn't mean that you are the villain. 5.) I'm not afraid anymore.