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How to Gracefully Fall I

  • Writer: ventingcouch8
    ventingcouch8
  • Oct 29, 2025
  • 1 min read

Part I - Start


Start…

Start breathing...


Doesn’t sound like a request, does it?


I need a minute more. It’s so peaceful here. None of the chaos reaches me here. I am safe here.


Why can’t I just stay? Why should I go out there?


I built for myself a perfect cocoon. But now I have to leave it.

Actually—no. I’m being forced out of it. Thrown out of my own safe space.


Breathing isn’t easy. At least not for me.

It takes a great deal of effort and strength, especially when I know it’s going to take a part of me with it each time.


I become more of a stranger to myself with every breath I take.

But I have to breathe.


Breathe…

And breathe…

And breathe…


Until I disappear into nothing.

 
 
 

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