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  • Story Listed as: True Life For Teens
  • Theme: Inspirational
  • Subject: Loneliness / Solitude
  • Published: 08/22/2015

Reality

By Dillon Engle
Born 1999, M, from Vero Beach, United States
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So I have a question, and there honestly is never an answer.
Why.
Everything can be answered except for this elephant in the room.
Why.
It’s such a simple yet unanswerable topic.
Why.
Must suicide and depression have no answer.
Think about it, happiness has an answer, people are happy for many reasons. All of them reasonable.
Whereas if you look at the two we don’t like to think about, sure we have reasons, but they aren’t even close to reasonable.
Why.
People think happiness can drown it out, but it doesn’t, depression always makes you sink. That’s why an anchor is used. When saying “Stay strong” they really want you to sink in the tears you have cried. People say they care but once they feel that they helped they leave, and you never hear from them again.
Why.
We cut ourselves, hit ourselves, overdose, and always regret it the next day. But if we regret it, then why do we keep running back to it when everything gets hard. Is this what society has taught us? It’s like being in love and then that person breaks your heart. But you keep going back, just like depression. You get addicted to the pain, the hate, the memories, the scars.
Why.
Must the ones we love either be hurt the most or hurt us the most. The word love is described as an indescribable feeling. Something so great, so perfect that it can only be imagined or experienced.
Why.
Must it be experienced? Not everyone has the same definition for the same thing. That would make originality impossible. But at this day in age, originality is criticized.
Why.
Must people criticize you for being you. If that is where society is going then what’s the point of life? In 10 years everyone will be killing themselves because they will be so harshly judged, and lack the one thing we need, originality.
Why.
Must society do this to us. But once they see the scars that they’ve caused, they are the first to assure us that it will be okay. That is until, they break you down again. They pick and choose that one person, society then becomes a bully. Even though bullying is heavily disapproved of, once again we broke a rule that we set.
Why.
Must suicide and depression be unanswerable? Because we can’t realize that it’s our fault. We can’t find an answer because we cross out the only right answer to the essential question, which happens to be.
Us.

Reality(Dillon Engle) So I have a question, and there honestly is never an answer.
Why.
Everything can be answered except for this elephant in the room.
Why.
It’s such a simple yet unanswerable topic.
Why.
Must suicide and depression have no answer.
Think about it, happiness has an answer, people are happy for many reasons. All of them reasonable.
Whereas if you look at the two we don’t like to think about, sure we have reasons, but they aren’t even close to reasonable.
Why.
People think happiness can drown it out, but it doesn’t, depression always makes you sink. That’s why an anchor is used. When saying “Stay strong” they really want you to sink in the tears you have cried. People say they care but once they feel that they helped they leave, and you never hear from them again.
Why.
We cut ourselves, hit ourselves, overdose, and always regret it the next day. But if we regret it, then why do we keep running back to it when everything gets hard. Is this what society has taught us? It’s like being in love and then that person breaks your heart. But you keep going back, just like depression. You get addicted to the pain, the hate, the memories, the scars.
Why.
Must the ones we love either be hurt the most or hurt us the most. The word love is described as an indescribable feeling. Something so great, so perfect that it can only be imagined or experienced.
Why.
Must it be experienced? Not everyone has the same definition for the same thing. That would make originality impossible. But at this day in age, originality is criticized.
Why.
Must people criticize you for being you. If that is where society is going then what’s the point of life? In 10 years everyone will be killing themselves because they will be so harshly judged, and lack the one thing we need, originality.
Why.
Must society do this to us. But once they see the scars that they’ve caused, they are the first to assure us that it will be okay. That is until, they break you down again. They pick and choose that one person, society then becomes a bully. Even though bullying is heavily disapproved of, once again we broke a rule that we set.
Why.
Must suicide and depression be unanswerable? Because we can’t realize that it’s our fault. We can’t find an answer because we cross out the only right answer to the essential question, which happens to be.
Us.

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