Maybe the new me will be different.

They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

I wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn't hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently do it to me? Even my parents treat me like I'm stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.

I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.