i think something possessed me i dont know what this is read at your own risk ig :/
It is dark. I cannot see anything, I cannot feel anything. There is no sound. I’m not even sure I’m breathing. I am aware of nothing at all except for the fact that I am alive.
And the moment that thought crosses my mind,I doubt it. Am I truly alive? What does it mean to be alive, to be human?
Is it emotions? I have none.
Sensations? I feel nothing, it is dark all around me, in my ears, in my nose, in me.
Memories? I cannot recall anything but the dark.
Knowledge? What does it mean, really, to know something?
-I am… not alive, perhaps, but conscious.
-There is a world, out there, somewhere, with people and laughter and beating hearts
-I do not know where I am
This list does not help me.
Help me do what, exactly? It is not like I can escape. Where would I even escape to?
The world that I can picture, with human beings and warmth and light- but also pain and suffering?
At least here, I feel nothing. Maybe that means I can never be happy, but it also means that pain is nothing but a fact, something that exists out of my realm of knowledge.
I cannot see, I cannot hear, I cannot breathe, I cannot feel.
There is light. I cannot tell where it is coming from, it is so bright that my eyes cannot register a single other thing. I hear a person. They are breathing, loudly. I am breathing too. I can feel it, in the way my chest expands and collapses, quick and restless. I am aware of everything, everything except-
Life. I am alive. I am so horribly, painfully, alive that for a moment, I long for the dark place again. But the moment that warm hands wrap around me, tears drip onto my face (they are not my own), I do not want to leave.
Everything is too much. Too much light, too much sound, too much emotion. Too much knowledge.
-It is bright. It is so, so bright.
-I am alive. It hurts. Being alive hurts so much.
-There is a world, out there, somewhere, where I feel nothing.
-I do not want to return.
The breathing is laughter, I realise. Not happy laughter. I know what that sounds like, this is not it. It’s hysterical, almost (that is a pretty word, hysterical), and it sounds much more like someone crying. Am I crying?
I do not know. But it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, and I love it.