I set myself the arbitrary date of my 30th birthday to make a decision about CTB, I a few months away and I though I've felt like this all my life and I've been in situations where I came close before, this is the first time I feel afraid of these thoughts, I've been taking action towards it, making goodbye letters that I scrap and start over...
I have a masters degree, I have a loving family and friends, I've been successful with romantic partners before, but none of it has ever mattered to me when the feeling comes, when the thoughts are just there.
And as I am writing these words, knowing full well that I could turn my life around, I'm invaded by thoughts that no matter my degrees, my loving friends, my success or lack thereof in my profession; I will never feel different.
And it may be true, I may never feel better for more than a month or so, I may never be able to pay rent on my own - let alone buy a home- and the time may even come again when I can't even afford a pack of cigarettes.
I fear that nothing I've ever done, nor that I'll ever do will change the way I've always felt.
I have no answers for you, but I don't wanna let go just quite yet, so I may be projecting here and I apologize, but I really do hope you make it to 31, and that you find professional, romantic and economic success, because if having it makes no difference in the way you or me feel, I hope there's something else that does and I hope to find it
