TW: This post talks about suicidal Ideation
It has been an eventful time for everyone huh...
It has been a while since I was not able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Last time I struggled to see a way out was scary, it was dark, and it lead me to try some pretty drastic things to try and get out the other end. To be honest, I was never meant to get out of that tunnel, but through pretty much sheer luck I made it out the other end.
I am going to keep going through, it would be fucking pathetic of me if I didn't, especially given that I know full that there is an out that doesn't involve me ending it.
Getting out of this tunnel still leaves me with my permanent physical pain, only subsided by medication or substances that leave my head numbed to a point of non-functionality.
Getting out of this tunnel still leaves my mind warped and altered by illness and "experiences". Fragile to anything said with an ounce of tonal shift or change, read as a threat of being ostracised rather than an expression of voice.
Getting out of this tunnel still leaves me uncertain of my future, my relationships, my career, my livelihood. I might find a reason to keep going but I'll be damned if it keeps me stable.
A lot of the time I want to stop, I am a tired wee lass who has been tired for a long time now...
but I don't get to stop things there, I am not allowed to...
It isn't some "brave thing" and it isn't me "being strong". My main reasoning is that I would be a hypocrite if I did. All the things I have said to friends, telling them that things do get better, the times where I have been on the brink of collapse, been fucking terrified that someone is going to "call it quits" at the same mental point I am at now...
I don't get to tell them that things can get better, truly believing that things have a chance to get better, and then off myself at the same point. Who am I to say it can get better for everyone else except for the one exception being myself.
So I am saying this to you, reader. You, your loved ones, the ones you hold dear...
It gets better, it fucking hurts a lot to traverse, and you might be alone through it, but it does get better, I know it gets better eventually. I have to hold onto that desperately, if I believe it for others I have to believe it for myself.