For some time, I’ve felt as though I’ve been merely an observer in this life, rather than an active participant. Sometimes I wonder if I actually died from one of those suicide attempts in my teens and everything since then has been some kind of lucid dream: a never ending limbo where I yearn for a belonging that remains painfully, agonizingly just out of reach.
Maybe it’s finally time to sever the cord tethering me to this purgatory. Free me from this simultaneous emptiness and insurmountable despair.
“It takes admirable courage not only to try but also to gracefully give up.”
- Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959












