Pointless
Pointless
I am who I was born to be
Some people are born to be athletes, some people are born to be actors
I was 10 then closed my eyes, and then was 16 and then closed my eyes again, and was 23
I was trying to figure out what the point of life is since I was 10
Is it to be happy? Is it to create for the new generation of people? Is it pointless?
Yet still to this day I can’t figure it out
People tell you not to harm yourself, but I don’t understand why
Do they care? So what if they care
I got a life, fell in love, then worked at my aunt’s house to make money, to…...Live
Maybe that’s it! I thought to myself, but no that’s not the reason
If I was no longer here what bad things would happen?
I turned 27 and held 3 master degrees in the STEM field in college
I became a pilot then an astronaut
I went to space and looked at earth continuously wondering, I still had 2 weeks until going back to earth
Sometimes I would think about how other people thought and thought they thought like me, in fact exactly like me
I realized maybe life was pointless
Weeks passed and I finally arrived home and in one week of arriving at home I got into a divorce
Then I felt something…...Sadness
Tears fell from my eyes and I realized why people lived, to feel happiness, sadness, to feel…….emotions
Yet I felt sadness and sadness only
Life was pointless, trapped in a body filled with sadness
But then the day I longed for arrived
Sitting in my bed waiting for the end to come
All the times I cried I was grateful for
The tears released some of the sadness in the trapped body of mine
Yet I still haven't died
So it ends now with myself in this body of sadness
Floating in the air with a rope around my neck, finally being satisfied
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