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trying to feel like me again

My older sister, the one that lives in a different state from me with her Dad's side of the family


What should I do if the things that make me happy usually aren't having that affect? I don't know why, but lately writing hasn't made me happy nor reading, and they're the things I always go to.

It'll be fine. She's probably getting more down there than we could give her here. And her father...well, he's not the best but at least her uncle and Aunt are there to supervise them




Death is forced to remember how to feel when the Gods decide that Death is too boring so they throw them down to the mortal world. They say that Death will only be allowed to come back when Death remembers how to feel and learns to respect the humans, instead of seeing them as a lesser being. Or so they say.
The story is written in first person from Death's perspective, and it's in a format of a letter. Death is writing to someone years after this event took place and they're trying to tell the story so that it won't be lost. They're also trying to come to terms with everything that has occurred. Death meets a lot of different characters that have really big impacts on their life. Death isn't just telling his story, he's telling all of theirs.

The world is ending for that Sarah is sure. Only nobody else seems to think so. The sun is still there and there aren't aliens in the sky or robots going about. Everyone says Sarah is crazy. Well, not just Sarah. It's her entire family- they've been insane since the beginning of time. It's unfortunate that Sarah inherited the crazy because she always seemed like a bright girl, everyone had high expectations for her. Sarah had always wanted to separate herself from the rumors about her family. She wasn't like that, she swore. It took years, but she finally convinced people after years of being away from her family. Everything had started looking up for her until the start of the end of the world. Follow Sarah as she tries to convince her small town of Erast that the worlds really ending.


She was just a girl. I didn't know her. Maybe she'd seen me around before and decided it was okay to approach me like we weren't strangers, or maybe I just happened to be there by chance. I wasn't sure. Even to this day, I'm still not sure if what happened actually happened or if it was all just a dream. It was some day in late fall and I'd been sitting at a park on a swing because no matter how old I got, swinging would always feel like the place that brought me home.
She walked up to me and just stood there. Her face had a big smile on it, but her eyes looked a bit weary, a bit sad. She didn't say anything, just stared, and for a moment I was afraid she was preparing herself to confess her feelings to me. I guess in a way she did, but it wasn't love she felt. I can't even describe the way she felt, but I could feel it radiating off of her, to me like the radio waves of some song.
"Uh, hi." I said, breaking the silence that I sometimes wish I hadn't. "Can I help you?"
"Maybe some day things will actually start to get better. Maybe things will actually look up for you. Maybe you should take that chance at that maybe, instead of a chance at your life."
The next thing I know I was crying and she was gone. I never saw her again, but that doesn't mean that she wasn't with me. Her words became a sort of mantra, inspiring me, motivating me. She showed me how lonely drowning could be and for that, I remained forever grateful.

Books mentioned in this topic
30 Things I Love About Myself (other topics)Challenger Deep (other topics)
Throes (other topics)
P.S. I Still Love You (other topics)
Delirium (other topics)
*hugs back*