it’s gotten so bad i have just started walking
i’ll wake up and get ready, and walk for sometimes up to 14 hours straight. i’ll give myself minimal breaks, usually only stopping to use the restroom places or to refill my water. somedays i’ve gone until i’ve collapsed, then i just lay there, get up when i can, and then keep going. it’s all i know what to do right now. it feels like im trying to run from something but idk what.
whenever i walk past restaurants or coffee shops and i see couples, friends or anyone sitting around and talking and laughing with each other i break a little inside. it feels like there is a chasm separating me and everyone else in this world and i don’t know how to get over it. everyone’s on the other side living what seems to be a pretty great life and im stuck alone in the dark unable to ever join any of them. the emptiness i feel and the grief i feel surrounding who i could have been had so many things in my life gone different makes me just want to keep walking and walking. the abuse i went through and the extreme trauma i went through were hell, but the loneliness that’s come as a result of surviving that is genuinely the worst thing i’ve ever gone through and i don’t think it will ever end. i’m surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people and ive never felt more alone.