Creepypasta Corner

Out Of Hell

Home again after a difficult but very rewarding day of convincing people not to give up on the gift of life. Richard Burner often had to deal with pretty stubborn suicidal people, but so far he had always been able to open their eyes to see all the beauty in the world and realize giving it all up was foolish, and the always classic "suicide is a permanent solution to temporary problems" was often pretty effective.

No matter the cost, he couldn't let anybody end like his beloved Miranda, he just couldn't...

He sat down in front of his computer and picked up the precious photo of her that he kept on his desk. He just contemplated it for a while. She always looked so beautiful with her long and soft hair, as black as night, and her glasses were a welcome bonus that made her even more adorable. Her melancholy smile was such a lovely view, but knowing its implications was downright haunting.

In Richard's eyes there was a mix of affection and contempt... how could that sweet creature be so selfish and insensitive and take the coward way out? Trying not to let those thoughts overwhelm him, he put down the photograph and turned on his computer, ready to continue his quest even in his free time by going online and encouraging sad people to think positive.

In his recommended videos on YouTube there was one with the interesting title "100 reasons to stay", he watched it and didn't regret it one bit. It was a video made by the University of Oregon where 100 students showed through signs their personal reasons to hold on to life, some were pretty simple and even kind of humorous, like "shopping", "friends" or even a funny guy dressed like a pirate with a sign that said, what else, "dressing like a pirate"; others were quite touching, like an always effective "seeing the sun after the rain".

Richard gave the videos a thumbs up and went to check out the comments, most of them were as uplifting as the video itself, but of course there always had to be a negative killjoy:

This has to be the STUPIDEST thing I've ever seen in my life! Not just the stupidest video, the stupidest THING in general! Seriously, have ANY of these dudes ever been suicidal in their pathetic lives? I don't think so, someone who has experienced true pain and suffering would spit in their faces as soon as they gave their dumbass "reasons to stay"! I mean, "dressing like a pirate"? "Wearing pink"? FUCKING REALLY?! Do I even need to comment on that? If there's someone who should seriously kill himself/herself is every single moron who had a part in this video! Even that guy who tried to be deep by saying "to feel better after feeling sad"! Pff, yeah right, so it's also a good thing that cancer exists, or else we wouldn't have chemotherapy!

Richard grimaced at that horrible comment... he certainly believed the golden rule "don't feed the trolls", but he truly had to at least try something with that user, to him he didn't sound like someone who did it just for attention, but as someone who genuinely suffered a lot and made the mistake of feeding anger and hatred to his demons. So he began to type his answer:

Now listen up kiddo, instead of simply spouting your edgy emo BS to try to bring people down to your level and ruin a positive feel good video that gives them strength, read the words of someone who has actually went through a lot but still won't give up on life. Because yeah, I am actually one who went through a lot of pain and misery, but yet I'm still there, finding something to cherish in every single day of my life and always looking for happy moments to turn into happy memories.

I've never even met my father, he abandoned me and my mother when I was still a child, leaving my mother all alone, broke and depressed with a son to take care of. Of course that made my childhood an unhappy one, my mother sometimes drowned her sorrows in booze and I was often bullied at school, and as a teenager I turned to alcohol myself, but I fucked up even harder than my mom and became a drug addict.