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happinesswillruinthisplace

One Step Forward Two Steps Back

The relapse to my recovery

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3 weeks ago
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2 years ago

It always upsets me so much when I see interpretations/illustrations of the two headed calf poem that show a living calf being torn away from its mother and killed to sell to a museum and framing the poem as being "humanity kills beautiful things for being different".

Two headed cows almost never survive more than a few hours after their birth. The farmer finds the *body* the next day. The calf was destined to die, and that's a tragedy, but for the time it was alive, it had a beautiful and unique experience.

It's not a poem about the cruelty of man. It's a poem about the beauty of life in an indifferent universe. It's about purpose and beauty being able to exist even in an existence doomed to come to an end, as all our lives are. It's not a poem about how a calf dies, but how, even for only a brief moment, it was alive.

And, for that moment, because of that life, however fleeting, the sky had twice as many stars.


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happinesswillruinthisplace
4 years ago

I WAS A CHILD

HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO A CHILD

happinesswillruinthisplace
5 years ago

Mourning for a childhood that was never possible

happinesswillruinthisplace
6 years ago

When one single thing goes wrong and you’re about to have a breakdown in the lobby of a university building

happinesswillruinthisplace
6 years ago

It feels so lonely

happinesswillruinthisplace
6 years ago

Kinda sucks that I’ve made a fucking vent blog a week before I was supposed to start therapy but w/e it’s not like things work out

happinesswillruinthisplace
6 years ago

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happinesswillruinthisplace
6 years ago

Anyways I don’t think I can actually get my mom to sign the insurance forms for therapy so I guess I’ll just have to cancel that

happinesswillruinthisplace
6 years ago

Do you feel safe at home?

lies over lies over lies over lies over lies


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happinesswillruinthisplace
6 years ago

Just another sleepless night locked in my bathroom. Passively suicidal and remembering just in time I can’t reach a crisis line. I wish I didn’t feel like this


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