u/CrispyChicken135

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I have been struggling lately. I've been struggling a lot.

I play a role everyday. I play a role of someone I'm not.

It feels like there is no me, like there's never been one.

Maybe I can't see my true self, maybe there is none.

I feel numb, apathatic and I feel like I just put up with this piece of shit of existence that I call a life.

Sometimes I catch myself in the kitchen, staring too long at a knife.

Still there's something inside me, clawing and tearing to see the light of day.

I ignore it, supress it and keep it shut deep inside.

Not by choice, but by habit.

I act happy, I content, I act as if I'm not suffering through every single fucking moment of this miserable existance that people expect me to have.

I wear a mask so perfectly, so naturally that sometimes, just sometimes, this mask feels like me.

I can't take it off. I can't see behind it. I'm blind to the light that is life and I just want to fucking end it.

Full stop.

I don't want to die. I don't want to end it.

I want to live and be happy and content and I want to see the light that all the people around me can see and bask in its glory and say to myself: "This is my life, and this is me".

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u/CrispyChicken135 — 15 days ago