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The saddest things are tucked away inside the crevices of our brain, and no matter what we do they can never truly escape; even though we've developed so many ways that try to convey, express, relay, radiate, exculpate and transmit feelings locked inside our cabinet, regarding our ultimate discontent with the state of things; hoping connection, or just letting something out might bring some form of release, from the existential and utter defeat of facing reality's crushing gravity; the cascading sadness falling around us like so many broken tin cans, never understanding why they were emptied like, "What was the plan, am I here for a reason other than to feel pain?" Kick me down the road again until I feel the curb's soft-end shove me back into the ground and then, maybe I'll get the release from grief I seek, but it was still better to get it out before leaving, I think.
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May 10
May 10, 2026 at 12:05 AM UTC
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The saddest things are tucked away inside the crevices of our brain, and no matter what we do they can never truly escape; even though we've developed so many ways that try to convey, express, relay, radiate, exculpate and transmit feelings locked inside our cabinet, regarding our ultimate discontent with the state of things; hoping connection, or just letting something out might bring some form of release, from the existential and utter defeat of facing reality's crushing gravity; the cascading sadness falling around us like so many broken tin cans, never understanding why they were emptied like, "What was the plan, am I here for a reason other than to feel pain?" Kick me down the road again until I feel the curb's soft-end shove me back into the ground and then, maybe I'll get the release from grief I seek, but it was still better to get it out before leaving, I think.
for anyone struggling with grief, of any kind. but especially for one user i've seen on here recently.
slow_burn
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40/M/Earth
May 10
May 10, 2026 at 12:05 AM UTC
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