(CW: Suicide)
7 days. Each act of suicide is a devastating tragedy, but suicide itself is a cheap trick; a horrible vanishing act. And yet its product is so easy to visualise. It's harder to picture a life which decided to keep living – which is a miracle. Here's what that looks like for me today.
This morning I took myself to hospital because roughly 36 hours ago my brain completely stopped functioning and started instructing me that it was ‘time to leave’ and so I just needed to go somewhere that I could feel more certain that that wouldn’t happen, so now I am waiting for help.
I spent this afternoon carrying and stacking stone slabs by a swimming pool, then moved barrows full of sand, which will be mixed into the concrete to lay the slabs. At one point I looked out across a field at a line of trees turning orange, and I thought, "You are exactly where you need to be."
🩷 you don’t know me, but I’m glad you’re here. Also this showed up on my feed this evening
bsky.app/profile/2wsp...Malachite Kingfisher - an absolute gem!
📍Bagamoyo, Tanzania.
#Birds #NaturePhotography #Tanzania 🪶
Oct 14, 2025 22:59
