I am thinking tonight about camels and straws.
They talk about the straw that broke the camel’s back. The one tiny thing that pushed it over the edge.
But it wasn’t the straw that broke the camel’s back. It was all the weight piled there before the straw even touched it. It was every burden thrown atop it, one after the other, til its legs were shaking. If the straw had fallen on an empty back, it wouldn’t have hurt. It’s not the straw. It’s everything that came before.
It’s not the fact that your favorite television show got canceled that broke you. It’s all the stress of your thankless job that happened first. It’s not that the supermarket running out of your go-to granola bar is so earth-shattering. It’s that you’ve been dealing with an ailing relative and all the stress that comes with it.
An empty back doesn’t feel the straw. The straw just pushes that weight that was already breaking you just slightly over.
And here’s the thing. Sometimes the straw breaks your back. And then it slides off, and you think, okay, I’m fine. I can keep going. That extra weight is gone.
But the bundles are still there. Everything’s still stacked up on your shoulders. So the next straw breaks your back again. It slides off and you think you can keep going. Then the next straw breaks your back. And then next. And the next. And a goddamn hayloft is shedding over your head and every time the next straw falls off you think it’s okay, this is over now, I can handle this I handled it before the straw was there I can handle it how.
But the straws are just going to keep breaking you back. Over and over and over again. Until you’re finally allowed to put the fucking packages down.
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Texts to my Therapist
[03/10, 11:39 pm] K: All of them are friends with the school friends at least a FEW
[03/10, 11:39 pm] K: And I'm not
[03/10, 11:40 pm] K: Most of all after doing something which felt like climbing Everest things with R didn't work out
[03/10, 11:40 pm] K: It just makes me feel like a failure
[03/10, 11:40 pm] K: Failure at everything
[03/10, 11:40 pm] K: Really
[03/10, 11:40 pm] K: I just really want to end everything
[03/10, 11:40 pm] K: Idk how
[03/10, 11:40 pm] K: All this pain all this love
[03/10, 11:40 pm] K: Where do I pour them
[03/10, 11:41 pm] K: Till when can I carry them
[03/10, 11:41 pm] K: Shouldn't I have some good time, good people good things happening to me
[03/10, 11:42 pm] K: I have no good friends. I can't keep relationships, didn't get into a good college can't figure out what to do with myself. Iam not getting better. I am just getting worse
[03/10, 11:42 pm] K: I am rude to people
[03/10, 11:42 pm] K: I get angry so often so much
[03/10, 11:42 pm] K: I destroy things
[03/10, 11:42 pm] K: I destroy relationships
[03/10, 11:43 pm] K: And if I was to think that okay R didn't want me do you think it makes me feel better
[03/10, 11:43 pm] K: She was my FUCKING BEST FRIEND. MY SOUL MATE. I ACTUALLY LOVED HER. ONLY HER
[03/10, 11:44 pm] K: Why do I have to pay such huge price for the mistakes for the ignorance of my teenage
[03/10, 11:44 pm] K: I too want to be friends with my old friends
[03/10, 11:44 pm] K: I too want to love someone
[03/10, 11:44 pm] K: Why don't people come into my life or don't choose me
[03/10, 11:44 pm] K: My self love isn't enough at the moment
[03/10, 11:45 pm] K: It makes me feel pathetic
[03/10, 11:46 pm] K: You'd say like anyone else I should wait. Bc obviously nobody can make things better for me. You can't bring someone into my life. I wonder is it just me????
[03/10, 11:46 pm] K: I see all the people around me having good changes
[03/10, 11:46 pm] K: I am the only one having changes that are just bad
[03/10, 11:46 pm] K: How can I find balance here??? The middle ground???
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School trades be like:
Me: I'll give you my time, my money and my last braincells
School: I'll give you exhaustion, depression, knowledge that will never help you in the future, stress, and your parents scolding. Good trade isn't it?
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