you don't want to die, you want to live

this is a thought I had when I was younger

you know – that feeling you have when you look at what you have around you, and you are literally unsatisfied with everything

you overthink and you think that maybe life will be better if you are not around anymore

but overthink more, and you start to find the root of it

the reason of your unhappiness is because life isn't the way you want it to be

you are unhappy at how life currently is, not at life in general

if you change your life for the better, you will most likely feel better about it too

then it becomes clear

you don't want to die, you want to live

you don't want your life to be over. you just want the shitty parts to be gone

and that's what you should do

remove the parts you don't want, slowly

make more for new happenings to enter. and if you don't like them, remove the new ones too

until you are left with a life you somewhat like, eventually

and then go from there


84 comments

  • Holly

    This is deep and I wished more people realised this. Its not that they actually want to be gone, it’s just that their life isn’t what they want it to be at the moment because its crap… life is simple but it’s just hard that’s why we don’t want to stay

  • Neha Sharma

    From past few days,I was feeling very sad. Everything is going apart ,my life,my career and to be honest I feel like dying.
    But your emails are always positive making me feel to do something and work on my happiness.
    Thank you very much🌼

  • Zoe

    That really hits deep because I was at a point in my life where I thought it would be better if I wasn’t around, but in quarantine I found the real meaning of life. Funny thing is, i was on Instagram and I saw a quote that said, “ I didn’t want to die, I just wanted my life as I knew it to end.” Thank you for this❤️

  • Cassandra Lapp (@cassandralapp)

    I needed this

  • taeska_

    sometimes, life feels so shitty that even if i k ow that dying is not the choice it surely seems like a good option. I can say that I’m trying to be better and not think like that now.

    It’s true, we don’t really want to die, we just want everything that’s making us suffer to die. It’s the sadness and pain that we want to kill and i believe if we try, we can kill it.

    Yes, life will not always be sunshines and rainbows but a part of it will be. There are rainy days yes but it’s on us how we take them. Do we take them as messy creating puddles or do we see them as something giving life to plants, at the end of the day, there will be a rainbow and the sky will clear up and things slowly but surely will be okay.

    Thank you for writing this.


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