Suicide Notes

by Michael Thomas Ford

And just because your life isn’t as awful as someone else’s, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck. You can’t compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn’t work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

“I am,” I said. “I’m the problem.”

If I forget about the pain, I might also forget that it was a really stupid idea to do it in the first place.