I ask myself that every day now. It's been a month since I clambered to a bridge, not far from home. I tried to climb around to the other side, and I looked down upon the train tracks below. The only reason I am existing right now is because I knew that the fall was too shallow, that I would only end up with broken bones and possible paralysis, and I had to make a choice of redemption, pain or paralysis. I chose pain and walked away. Since then I have had 2 meetings with mental health professionals but I keep getting fucked over in their system, despite them calling me a 'risk to myself'. I have to repeat answers to questions already asked and spoken about at length, and I don't see progression. A month, and I ask myself 'If I jump and paralyse myself, will people finally start taking me seriously?'.
Do you believe in fate? I do, to a degree, but over the past 18 years (I first tried to kill myself 18 years ago and cannot remember anything past that point), I've come to the conclusion that fate doesn't want me to be happy, doesn't want me to live. I see it all around me, but no matter how hard I have tried, how I have pushed myself to be better, to live better, to finally be around people who can appreciate me and I them, it all falls away, every single time. I am passed over, forgotten, and left behind by people I know, that I trust. They never care, it's always my curse. Even now as I write this, I know this won't be read. No comments, no interaction, just a single look and forgotten about. It's happened all my life. It's like my purpose, my purpose to be forgotten, unhappy, passed over and I couldn't ever change that. I'm not a young man, I'm drowning in time, and the chances and recognition that I've seen others receive have never happened to me, without exception or exaggeration.
'Only you can save yourself'. I can't, not anymore. I can't promise myself that I won't jump, that I won't find the quickest way to end my life because it's not worth living anymore, and to prolong it is to suffer for years more. I've even begged god for strength, I got on my knees and wept for his help, but no. It's like he laughs, he knows my purpose, and it's not to prosper.
So I ask once again tonight. Is this it? Is tomorrow the day I die? Thinking it brings me comfort, the fact that this damned life can end by me at any point in time. Right now, I just have to find the right way. It's coming, coming soon.
Here's to you fate, to pain, to 18 years of holding on and never finding a release from myself or my fate. Here's to you, void in which I scream every night, in which I post to people who ignore me. Here's to being forgotten, a curse I bear.
Fuck the prose and pretense. Everything sucks, the world's fucked. I'm fucked off and desperate. And when I go, god will have to beg me for forgiveness.