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Tortured Soul

@misanthrophisticated

Katzen Enigma
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Keep Trying

Life is so tiring.

What keeps me up is the smiles of all the people around me, the moments I cherish with my friends and family, and the new learnings and experiences that satisfy my curiosity in this world.

But take that all away and all that's left are disappointments. The world makes me so mad, especially because of those selfish, greedy, and ignorant people. Even at this age of mine, I've already had so many regrets in life. This year had been hell for me, and I'm anxious about what's more to come next.

I'm not happy, I'm tired, and I'm just trying to get more fulfillment from all other things such as my hobbies - but even with those, I just get more frustrated.

I don't need luxury and anything more than that to keep myself happy. All I wanted in life is to be contented and to have peace. I just wanted the normal life I planned to have years ago.

I have and had so many wishes. But I guess I just have to keep on going and keep trying to make them true.

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The Abused

I always hear stories of people getting physically hurt, specifically from those who are and were in a relationship. It’s one of the things I don’t understand, on why do they have to resort to inflicting physical pain. All I see is a lack of empathy, immaturity, and much like what I’ve explained on one of my previous post ’Emotional Maturity’, it’s seems like their lack of ability to express turns them into a bully.

Another thing that baffled me a lot of times in the past is why the victim almost always stay despite being in pain. Why can’t they just leave? Wouldn’t it just end quicker if you broke things up sooner? It turns out, it’s not that simple.

Despite being abused, we cannot disregard the reason why they first became together. At some point, the two could have expressed their love towards one another - only in a matter of time where the abuser would eventually show their true colors. If the abused truly loved their partner, then it wouldn’t be easy to let go. He/she could have thought that maybe it’s just one of those “tests” or challenges in relationships. Maybe it happens just one time. Maybe he/she’ll change. Maybe.

It’s the word ‘maybe’ that always gives hope to people. If the victim truly loved their partner, then they’ll stay hopeful for their relationship. They still try to look for the light in the darkness. They want to be the one who’ll change the person who’s hurting them. Especially, one reason above all, they missed all the good memories they had in the past with that person.

If you are in an abusive relationship, or if you will ever be, then the best way to help the abuser is to leave him/her. Letting them hurt you more only makes them think that whatever they’re doing is okay. Even if it’s hard to do, I hope you realize that it’s the best thing to do. It’s only not unless you know you could talk your way out into changing his/her way. One reason they do that is that they may have lived in a world where hurting people is okay. They may have done it because they can - they lack accountability. They may have had past traumas. They may just be hurt on the inside. But regardless of their reason, it is never okay.

Even if it’s just a scratch, a tight grip on the wrist, or a slap to the face, abuse is abuse. No matter what situation you are in, don’t let your emotions decide for your actions. If you really love one person, do what’s best for them. If you really love yourself, then do what’s best for you.

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The Sunflower

My favorite flower is the sunflower.

When a sunflower is still young, it tends to face the sun from sunrise to sunset so that it grows better - maximizing its ability to photosynthesize.

However, the sunflower stops following the sun once it have become fully matured.

Much like the sunflower, I hope one day you’d grow strong enough so that you won’t be needing to seek further comfort.

I hope one day that you’ll be free from all the thoughts that have been haunting you.

Life has its light and darkness, much like the day and night.

Even when it’s dark, I know the sun will soon shine upon us again.

But I hope one day you won’t be needing to face the sunrise, because it will be the time that you know you’re already in full bloom.

:)

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Salt & Pepper

Just a few months ago, I made a post on why I think I remained single since birth. I wrote few reasons in the post on why I’ve remained unattached throughout my life so far. They were right, but I thought there’s more to that.

Recent thoughts have made me realize what I’ve been looking for after all - especially when I saw this one quote that my sister had posted in her wall during her recent trips with her husband.

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction”      - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Maybe I wasn’t really looking for just a lover at all; I was looking for a partner in crime.

It’s not just about the pretty face, nor even the successful background. The only thing that matters that it’s someone who I could get along with in terms of vision and everyday life.

I’m not looking for my other half; I wasn’t half of anything in the first place. I’m not a jigsaw puzzle looking for my other pieces - not like looking for something that would fill the voids. I can already do things on my own, but I was the salt looking for the pepper to make one delicious well-seasoned scrambled egg.

Hence I rarely ever immediately show interests or make a move to anyone potential. I don’t approach anyone to ask for their number just because they’re pretty. I just wanted to make friends instead; I was just looking for a best friend after all. It’s only the after that when I’d consider taking it on the next level.

Now don’t think I’ve never truly found anyone interesting in my entire life. I’ve met a few so and only ended up with either a turn of events that made me lose interest or rejection. But that’s fine by me - I’m happy as long as they’re happy. It only shows that things wouldn’t work out in the long run anyway.

If you’re reading this and you have yet to find anyone - don’t look for someone that will help you with your needs. Don’t look someone you can entirely depend on. Be with someone that you can collaborate with instead. Be with someone who can make that something you could already do better. You are not half a human being, but just like a whole meal that can stand alone yet can do better if paired with another.

Just as a burger would sound good but would be better when served with fries.

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somehow, everything seems fine with my surroundings as of now, but i have the urge to kill myself again. i don't want to bother people and serve it as i am making myself pitiful while it is nonsense but it's ineffable to those who will just have a judgement towards it * and has an intention to take advantage out of it again if i seek help from them

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Unknown

Just everything started to fall into place,

Life exploded around us,

What was left to be salvaged,

Blew up in our face.

As I sit here pondering

Every way I was wrong,

I blame only myself

My touch turns all to dust, forever-long.

Try ad I may,

Love with all my heart

Through all the countless tries,

I‘m tearing everything apart.

The sense of death that surrounds me,

Unfortunately not yet physical

At times is all I see,

As my mind becomes more dull.

The longest time I’ve been alone

Through these past few years,

Dreams of noise, chaos and love that haunt me,

Dreams we all once called home.

My soul continues to fall lost

Into the darkness,

Salvation no longer an option.

I have no others to blame,

For I myself caused this pain.

I belong nowhere, deserve nothing

My simple existence remains in vain.

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Self Enemy

My mind goes over all the wrong things I did,

like a cruel flashback,

cutting me like a razor blade.

Self-loathing is a fine art,

the art of cutting yourself dry

and still bleed, bleed in secret,

a perfect lonely torture.

Some days I get it real bad,

memories keep coming,

like hailstorm from dark clouds,

turning me into pieces.

Some days are terrible,

there’s this accusatory voice

that keeps judging me

for all the things I’ve done.

It is hard to love

when the memories of my mistakes

haunt me like a black hound,

barking half-truths.

Some days are ok,

then I manage to be kind to myself.

“Why can I not be kind all the time?”

I guess is the accusatory voice again.

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A Battle when I Baffle

There is no end and still in a progressive loop

Of once mind lost in self, lack of trust and hope

A truth in rage of insult furrows my mind

For it is only an offense given to me by myself

In the mouths of others far innocent than I

I feel the tears trickle down my cheeks

For I have surfaced into an ugly mistake

I am always inadequate in this brain

I try to shine like the advice of grace given

But confidence rarely rears its head my way

There’s a sort of shade blocking its way

A shade that darkens everyday

That very shade led me to believe my feelings are wrong

That I will never belong so long as they are not controlled

I must be careful for the lines of love run cold

I hate myself truly this night

And no one but myself will give me the right

The very right to degrade my every being

Because you are not seeing what I am seeing

There is no point

My lines run cold

Can I be so bold as to say

I still love with a pang of indistinguishable doubt

All feelings enter in

As my truth blurs and checks out

Your words pierce me so deep

I cannot describe the pain I feel

God it hurts so bad

It can’t be real

Much like the love I have come to embrace

The very love that links to your face

Tears don’t give it justice

It can’t be real

Much like the love I will never face

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A Whisper in Dream

While you sleep I tell you all of the things I keep inside throughout day.

Now that you can hear but not listen I find them much easier to say.

My hopes, my dreams, my fears, and everything in between

Your subconscious hears so keen, or so it seems.

My tongue is soft; I speak so sweetly

Knowing your reaction will never greet me.

Tonight will be different in what I want you to know.

It has everything to do with what I can’t help but show.

I hold no claim to any religion but you’ve given me a place for my faith.

Somewhere it will never stale or lose its lavish taste.

You’ve shown me something I can see, touch, and feel,

And so before it I choose to kneel.

I know I don’t say it but I miss you every day.

Sitting, thinking of the perfect words to be my choice,

Yet when you call I can’t find any of the right words to say.

I’m just happy to finally hear your voice.

Even just a moment is enough to sooth my heavy heart;

Fearing the ends of conversations knowing we’ll have to part.

I’ll never be too far from you, always within arm’s reach,

And in your days of darkness I’ll be the light that you will seek.

I’ll never let you leave too far from me, I’ll stay close behind you in this world;

Secretly protecting what is mine, you will always be my boy.

I only want the best for you so the best of me I will employ.

Faithfully yours, I will always be your girl.

I close my eyes and kiss your soft sweet lips

And see the very best of you in loving bliss.

I see past the physical which makes you attractive

And focus on the things I can’t see in which I’m attracted.

Your thoughts I’d love to hear them all.

Of the things you speak disinterest never makes its call.

My day will come, I know someday I’ll be the only one.

And you I will pursue viciously,

Because I’ve given you the greatest gift I can give, to love unconditionally.

Yes our day will come, I know someday we’ll be as one.

And you I will pursue viciously,

Because I’ve given you the greatest gift I can give… to love unconditionally.

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Sometimes, like now, I reach the point where I don’t have the words anymore. I don’t want to feel this alone and helpless, but I just can’t find the right way to express how I’m feeling or the 101 reasons why.
I feel like drawing would help, it would pass a lot of time too. But I have no idea how to show it through that either, I’d just be colouring the entire page black.
I feel so broken at the minute. I want to help myself, I don’t want to be where I am. But my brain is barely functioning enough for me to get beyond that. Words can’t reach me anymore and the friends I’ve told are at a loss as to how to help. It may “only” be mental illness, but I’m very ill. I can feel it. 
I feel ashamed even saying it, but one of the first things I did this morning was call a suicide hotline. How pathetic right? I couldn’t even give the day a chance before I went begging strangers for help. Needless to say, given I’m on this blog, that didn’t help either. Nothing helps. I’m trapped and falling at the same time.

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depression is living in a body that fights to survive with a mind that tries to die
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Tailspin

My sondering will be the death of me; yet I find these speculations haunt me down the never ending stretches of highway. I cannot bid them part from me and leave me in peace. Every pillar of smokestack and dirtied, cracked window has a story of many years length, marked by numerous unsung souls, each with their respective novels, each chapter a lifetime in their mind. Every piece of graffiti marking the freeways stirs up questions about who its fated artist was and on what cold night did she venture onto the overpass to leave his mark on this world. It was perhaps the only mark he’d ever leave on the expanse of concrete jungles constructed by others seeking to leave their own marks on this vast collection of creatures, and it would soon be covered up by even more humans seeking to leave their mark. Each dilapidated building, each piece of rotting wood that made up that building… they all had their tales. Every word of their tales blended onto the pages of other’s tales, the words mingling in a cosmic orgy of letters and being. And down these stretches of highway, hundreds of other human beings passed me by. They were mere seconds of my life, barely a grain of sand on my timeline… yet they were their own timelines stretching off down the pavement, crossing the horizon to only God knows where. Even the horizons themselves, changing constantly with venue, had their own stories. Whether they were kissed by skyscrapers or rolling hills, these horizons carried on for eternity, their pages being written by the souls that crossed their borders. The skyscrapers and hills too were biographies transplanted into the Earth. All these thoughts muddle my mind and send me reeling into the arms of space-time, lost among the black holes created by those who have died. We are all just galaxies in constant orbit around each other, sometimes colliding, others never meeting. Yet though we are galaxies, our minds are more extensive than ourselves, larger than even the universe. Our minds are multiverses, criss-crossed by the paths of galaxies and stars and planets and marked by supernovas and the creation of entire worlds in the blink of an eye. So in the end, the universe is not such a big place after all. Each and every one of us, minuscule specks among the ether, is larger than anything known to man. These thoughts shall consume me like an acid; do not be surprised to find my skeleton in a puddle of my melted self.

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I want to kill myself but I dont want people’s last sight of me to be a whale stuffed into a casket.
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2 sides of a coin

we dont have a choice but to risk our ideal thoughts by tossing it to the air and let our destiny fill it in as it will resulted of which one would appears if any worst case scenario happened to us. we are dictated by destiny to lead ourselves to the path it had chosen for us to face our future which we might conclude to glance back on our confusions and regrets what if you had taken the other path and made us outlawed the destiny and faced again those regrets back along the way from the starting point. the key here my friend is move along to the path youve already chosen to lead yourself to the finish line. don’t even hesitate you could still change what you have already surpassed on, make out of every steps you have as an achievement until youve reached the end.

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do you ever get so disgusted with yourself, like you can not believe how stupid and thoughtless you are and it’s so frustrating because you keep telling yourself that you’ll do better next time but then next time rolls around and the same thing keeps happening and you end up in this pattern of mediocrity.

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Midnight Tranquility

A mended heart, once broken Crawling in it's infancy, easily forsaken Yearning to swim again in numbness Home to the unloved and the loveless Surrounded by ol good friends Like palm trees they easily bend Dancing in the wind, they have their fun Deprived of shade, I'm scorched by the sun Charred by the sun raging One bump can stop the feeling Fighting the urges My heart fails and submerges Listening to my heart not beating Cheated out of healing Slowly drowning in numbness Swallowed by the dark and devoured by nothingness

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Paradox of Existentialism

If you have ever been in that state of mind, you didn’t have to read that title twice.

Not every day but on a pretty consistent basis, I imagine my death. Vividly! Even down to being found and what the reaction would be. I think about who would care, what people would say. How it would or wouldn’t affect others’ lives. How much better everyone’s lives would be without me. The ambiguous thoughts, if I just didn’t exist.

That’s the thing: I don’t want to die. I just don’t want to exist.

I don’t want that out of selfishness, but in fact, for those around me.

I hate feeling like a burden. I’m ashamed of being a downer. I hate being an over-the-top upper. I’m infuriated that someone has to be there for me and listen to me cry, groan, screech, scream, and be all over the place. I’m remorseful that I bother colleagues and friends with my awkwardness and depressing aura, the way I pull away and silence will take over me when I’m a prisoner of my own negative thoughts and anxieties.

I’m not capable of handling difficult circumstances, but it is more burden for those who people that surrounds me too.

I don’t want to be this way for anybody. Therefore, I genuinely wish I didn’t exist.

But don’t fret. I don’t need to be rescued. I am completely safe. I don’t fear about being dead, I just don’t want to exist.

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Having depression is like being thrown into a raging, surging ocean,
 When you don’t know how to swim.
 Meanwhile, the whole world expects you to keep swimming forward,
 To keep excelling and moving onward in this thing called life. But you feel like you’re dying.
 You’re gasping for air.
Every breath is a struggle.
 Your feet can’t touch the floor,
You feel all alone,
Waves crash over your head and pummel you with water.
You want to give up the fight to stay afloat. Help comes in the form of pills.
They become your floatation device.
You’re no longer relying on sheer willpower to stay alive.
Now at least you won’t drown, 
But you still don’t know how to swim. Therapy teaches you how to swim.
Soon you are swimming forward again. Yet even with the best swimming lessons and floaties…
The. Waves. Still. Come.
Bad days still exist and people don’t understand. They assume that you should be all better.
They assume that one bad day means you’re relapsing.
You feel ashamed of your bad days,
Like you have to hide them,
But those people just don’t understand the journey. You’re still trying to swim forward when waves and currents and rapids are against you.
There’s a constant battle going on in your mind.
No wonder you’re so tired all the time.
No wonder bad days come sometimes.
Days when getting out of bed is a struggle 
And all you want to do is stay under the covers. But you don’t, because the world is waiting for you to show your face.
You choose to get up and take a shower.
You make breakfast and put salt and pepper on your eggs.
You cling to the warmth of your cup of coffee.
You take in the slim amount of theology your brain can handle.
You watch the sun rise and chase the sunset.
You remind yourself who you are. Bad days still come. 
Bad days will come.
But it’s different now.
You still feel like you want to die. 
You still wish you could. But Hope’s voice is louder,
And Grace’s streams run deeper.
Tomorrow might be better. 
Tomorrow is already full of new mercies.
Tomorrow there are moments you want to live for.
Sunsets you want to chase,
People you want to hug,
Laughs you want to share and tears you want to cry.
Memories you want to make,
Deep conversations you want to have,
Sand you want to squish between your toes,
Presence you want to live in,
Favorite foods you want to savor and coffee you want to drink.
Pancakes you want to flip,
Music you want to get lost in,
Gifts you want to give,
Love you want to find. So you choose to keep swimming.
You choose grace.
You choose to remember who you are, 
Because brighter days are coming.
His mercies are new every morning.
There are more sunsets to chase,
And someday you will breathe again