I’m actually so offended by this.
Who are you to tell me how I feel?
Who are you to tell me that the way I feel is wrong or not acceptable?
You have absolutely no idea what I’ve been through and am still going through. You don’t know what my family situation has been like for the past 7 years. You don’t know what it’s like to come home. You know what, no I do no have parents who care that I’m alive. Do you know what that feels like? I’ve had to live with my gran who lives miles away because I couldn’t take it anymore. I’m currently living with my next door neighbours because my mother doesn’t give a shit about me. I fucking came back from hospital today after trying to take my own life and she doesn’t want me around. When I was living with my gran there were days when I wouldn’t eat a single thing just so that my gran could eat something because she needed it more than me. I know what it’s like. I would go into school and ask someone if I could have a couple of their crisps because I thought I was going to faint. Now, thankfully, that’s over, I’m giving 80% of my wages to my gran so that she can put the heating on and eat properly so she doesn’t die this winter. I’m living with some very nice people and I have food to eat but it’s not my home. I have nowhere to call home. Last week I was homeless. Chucked out of my house for no good reason by my mum and I had nowhere to go. Excuse me if I’m wrong but I doubt you know what that’s like. Try having an alcoholic drug addict for a father. Try having a psychotic mother who wishes you had died instead of your sister and thinks you’re a failure even though you’ve been accepted to university and reminds you every second of every day.
So don’t you fucking tell me what I can and cannot feel. There are different types of suffering in this world. And fucking hell I am suffering. I’m sure you’re in a nice house somewhere with a loving family but try feeling happy when you have nothing to live for, feel so lonely, so helpless, so useless. Don’t you ever dare and try and compare me to anyone else again.
And yes, I am only barely alive. Barely.