Breathing.

Whole Book

Breathing

by Al R.

Table of Contents

Destruction

Love

Recovery

Trigger warning: suicide, self-harm, abuse.

Destruction.

 We learn to become addicted to the pain

We learn to be empty on our own

We learn how to love the emptiness.

 -self-harm

40%

That's all I am to you?

I am not okay with just being 40%

Or just being a percentage at all

Were broken people

We get it

But telling the people who are fighting every morning for a reason to smile, that they are 40% loved by their "man" is bullshit

You are loved

100%

 Falling asleep used to be easy

Now it's the hard part

 -you don't deserve to tear yourself apart

Learning to love what we hate makes us feel whole

-fill your own holes

Learning to turn to ourselves first is key

Loving ourselves is how we learn to love someone else

Stop breaking yourself down by trying to put others above you

-you come first

Plant hope in a garden of failure.

We always look for reasons to kill ourselves

Why can't we find the reason in ourselves to stay alive?

-you deserve that

Be a warrior.

If you don't give up on the people who do you wrong, why should you give up on yourself?

There are many nights you feel stuck

Feeling like you won't ever get out alive

I promise you

You will get out alive, no matter how hard the fight is.

Dying roses are still beautiful

Changing what's on the outside, won't change what's going on in the inside.

Someone will miss you

Whoever that someone is, they will miss you.

Emptiness

The one word to describe how I feel