25/11/2022
The thing I've figured out about loneliness is that no one knows how quickly it can destroy you.
I've tried socialising and it's still gotten me no friends.
I always wake up to no notifications.
I go to sleep without a word from anyone.
Anyone I've reached out to left me on read.
The closest people I have to me are the people I work with and barely any of them accept the way I am which is a fu**ed situation.
I am in silence more than anyone around me.
Yet somehow I'm just not worthy or interesting enough for anyone to even care for.
So you cut people off. You spend time alone
Because at least the loneliness doesn't make you feel so alone. Yet you are.
Loneliness is a place you become very cathartic.
You find yourself in this mindset of what people created of you or want to feel about you. In that space, you've lost yourself. But that's okay. It's a stepping stone to rebuild.
So you start changing the way you look, the way you feel, the things you enjoy doing, and all of a sudden, the people that were your "friends" magically disappear..
You never had friends. You had people creating a version of you that they wanted.
But then your depressive episodes hit you like a freight train when you're alone.
Even when finding yourself, you're reminded that you have no one. There's not a single person you could call that would be there anytime for you. Or maybe you do? Maybe you're lucky to have that one human. Or animal.
You start overthinking.
"You're alone. You'll always be alone" on repeat.
Left with voids in your heart of people that have trampled their way through and never apologised for their actions.
Left with thoughts that make you wish you didn't have to wake up tomorrow.
Thoughts that know there's no point having any expectations of a message being written to you.
Loneliness is a place you can't get out of.
You just hide it with lies.
I'm in that place.
I am so fu***ng lonely and it's killing me.
And yet, I know no one would even notice if I was gone tomorrow.
That's what gets to me the most.