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[vent] why do I crave a sense of purpose and meaning? Looking at you, agent Smith... (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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Edit: thank you all for your wonderful, heartwarming support! ๐Ÿฉท I must've had a particularly bad episode (?) last night and I needed to vent. Wish you all a pleasant day! ๐Ÿฉต

cw: passive suicidal thoughts
I wish that I didn't feel the need to feel any purpose with my existence or meaning in life, but I do and it hurts so badly. I was so close to going to the psychiatric ER today because I didn't know what to do with the immense, overwhelming chest pain. I "play" with the thought of ceasing to exist because I hate that I'm just a piece of meat. All I do is survive each day. Alone and ugly. I wish I was a simpleton. I wish I didn't feel every goddamn moment. I got some morphine pills the other day, a fairly minor dosage, to help me endure IPL hair removal. I have a few pills left that could make me numb and dumb for a few hours. Not that it's a viable solution. Next year, when I have saved up some money, I'm thinking about traveling abroad again in order to rediscover myself. I feel so silly. Sorry. Aight. Night. ๐ŸŒƒ

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[-] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks!

I feel like a lot of the pain in the world today is from people being forced into an existence they had no say in, we have very little agency in what type of life we can live, it has mostly all been decided by people who lived long before we were even born. This is one of the concrete thoughts I struggle with when I play with the thought of ceasing to exist. I wish I had the motivation to instead think: "in that case, I'm going to be the one to change this rotten existence!!!" Etc. ๐Ÿคฃ

Aww cool! I actually studied at a music programme in highschool! I had been playing classical piano for eight years at the time, and my parents thought it would be a waste to... waste all that effort. I changed major to song and electric guitar during my second year, only to end up quitting focusing on performance all together and instead learn compositiong and arrangement. I am currently looking for a vocal trainer who also sings jazz, because it would be so cool to be able to sing like Frank or - depending on how my gender affirming journey unfolds in the comming years - Diana Panton. And if the singing doesn't work out, I'd like to learn how to play like Joe Pass or like the guitar player in Diana Panton's first album If the Moon Turned Green.

In what capacity do you do music? ๐Ÿ˜Š

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