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to be honest, how do you ever really recover from an ordeal like that? i know i can’t run away from things forever, but for now at least i’d rather be held back by the admittedly frightening terrifying pale thin cold clutches gripping my wrists so hard i feel— all blood circulation getting cut off. it’s all an excuse for myself anyways. forgive me for putting me first, but i need to do this for myself now. i need to stick my head in the ground, cower away from everyone and just allow myself to be pulled under. for now, i say, for now. don’t know how long how that now will be, don’t ask don’t ask me questions i can’t answer! why, why, stop demanding things from me let me take things at my own pace! i can’t do it! so that’s why i’d rather stay behind and cower. you can all progress ahead of me first, i swear i swear i don’t mind humiliation seems to come like a day-to-day thing now, the rising sun every morning glaring mercilessly down at me, melting me till i am nothing left but a pile of bones and perhaps a shredded wisp of whatever soul is left. thank you for listening to my speech.
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Jul 26, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 at 10:49 PM UTC
shredded
to be honest, how do you ever really recover from an ordeal like that? i know i can’t run away from things forever, but for now at least i’d rather be held back by the admittedly frightening terrifying pale thin cold clutches gripping my wrists so hard i feel— all blood circulation getting cut off. it’s all an excuse for myself anyways. forgive me for putting me first, but i need to do this for myself now. i need to stick my head in the ground, cower away from everyone and just allow myself to be pulled under. for now, i say, for now. don’t know how long how that now will be, don’t ask don’t ask me questions i can’t answer! why, why, stop demanding things from me let me take things at my own pace! i can’t do it! so that’s why i’d rather stay behind and cower. you can all progress ahead of me first, i swear i swear i don’t mind humiliation seems to come like a day-to-day thing now, the rising sun every morning glaring mercilessly down at me, melting me till i am nothing left but a pile of bones and perhaps a shredded wisp of whatever soul is left. thank you for listening to my speech.
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Jul 26, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 at 10:49 PM UTC
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