This is the butterfly project. It's just like the heart project, except you draw butterflies and name those butterflies after loved ones and people who want you to stop cutting. Here are the rules:
1. Every time you feel the urge to cut, grab a highlighter, pen, marker, sharpie, whatever, and draw a butterfly on your arm or something.
2. Under the butterfly, write the name of a loved one; or someone who wants you to stop cutting.
3. Never, under any circumstance, scrub your butterfly off. Let it fade naturally. This is to trick your mind into thinking these are your cuts. Your cuts heal naturally. Your butterfly will, too.
4. If you cut yourself before the butterfly has faded, you have killed it. DON'T KILL YOUR BUTTERFLY!!! If you don't cut, your butterfly stays alive (we need living butterflies, not dead ones; the living ones are the point of the project).
5. If you have more than one butterfly, and you cut yourself, your butterflies die. DON'T KILL THESE BEAUTIFUL INSECTS!!!
6. Someone else may draw butterflies on your arm, legs, wherever. These butterflies are VERY important. Take VERY, VERY good care of these.
7. Even if you don't cut, you can still draw butterflies; for support. If you choose to do so, name them after someone you know who cuts. It could show them your love for them, and help them stop.
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PoetryHarming isn't childish it isn't a phase it is real life And if someone doesn't realize that well, joke's on them because unless someone realizes that people do harm for a real reason it will just keep happening I want to be that person who realizes...