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In January I realized I needed help, I withdrew from school and sought a lonely road to recovery.

In February, I finally let go of someone who had been toxic to me for two years. I had never felt more free.

In March I grew stronger and healthier and learned how to take care of myself. I started laughing again and rolled the windows down.

In April, I moved back. It was a beautiful reunion and I was healthy for the first time in my life.

In May, June, and July I experienced a deep loneliness and an empty house that really tested all I had learned. But I found God’s comfort in my deepest isolation.

In August, I went back to school and really experienced college and friends for the first time. As a senior.

In September, I got my heart broken again..but by my best friend. I knew no matter how hard I tried it would never be the same.

In October, I lost myself in a group of people that didn’t value what I valued. It left me with a horrible hangover.

In November, I tried to heal. I tried to step back but I didn’t have anyone else. I had lost so many people this year.

In December, I took the pictures off my wall. I came home. I cried to my mom from a bathtub. I asked her “why?“ She didn’t have the answer though. She said to focus on what I have instead of what I’ve lost, to focus on my dreams and future instead of dwelling on the past.

In 2015 I grew. I loved a lot and I lost a lot. But I’m still here, and restless as ever because I know I was made for more than broken hearts and crippling insecurity

And in 2016 I’m going to find it. And I hope you do too.
Don't live life looking forward to the end
Your fate is decided by you, not a Priest or Reverend.
I  grew up Catholic and was sent to a Christian school for high school and these people just scare everyone with hell and I can see why people turn away from religion. And if you don't believe in this kind of stuff I'm not rubbing it in your face just saying what I feel.
God met me tonight.
He told me things I already knew, but had forgotten in the midst of pain and a fast paced world. He told me I am loved unconditionally, even when my mind says otherwise. He told me how he created me uniquely and specifically. He said he knew about me from the beginning. He knew I would need a sense of humor and oddity to balance out the mental illnesses I’d have to fight.

When I showed him my scars with shame and told him of my regrets, he lifted my head and showed me the cross–the body of Jesus that was destroyed with nails, and thorns, and whips, and suffocation. The darkness of the Earth that day. God said he sent his most precious and innocent son to be murdered for me. Then he showed me Sunday. He showed me Jesus and victory and light and said I’m not a prisoner of my own sin and the pain of this world anymore.

Then God said he wanted me. It flustered me and I turned my head. I’m not used to that feeling. I told God about the time I wanted to die, and the time that my heart was ripped from it’s sleeve but I continued giving it away. I shared my fears that I’ll always feel this alone. He said I won’t. And in that moment I actually never felt less alone. He reminded me that life is constantly changing with happiness and sorrow, fears and uncertainties. But he isn’t.

God met me tonight. And he taught me how to love myself again.
We are all a little absurd, just some people express it more outward.
Make my heart cold
Make it icy
I don't want to be so red
So ****** and beaten
Every time I fall too hard
And every time I bleed out
Emotion emotion emotion

It is my greatest strength
And my fatal weakness
Sometimes I wish I didn't have a heart
A new year can't change bad memories,but it can change your attitude towards them by not letting them hold you back
Happy new year everyone, sorry for not being on much my wifi is out at home.
I feel like a ghost walking around unseen
in the backdrops of these other happy lives
I feel like I'm trapped in a ravine
in a darkness that never leaves
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