Pretty much given up

Pretty much given up on what I do, how I do it, what I think etc. Online/offline. Everything always gets distorted and it reminds me about how cursed I must be. (Yes, I have a faith and I do believe in divine election but that I'm just not a part of it.) I was praying last night/early hours of this morning that if God can sacrifice me to the eternal fire so that someone else, some random sinner that I don't even know or care for can be given the chance of salvation, then I would gladly keep living in mental anguish, knowing that my pointless life can have some kind of purpose, in a roundabout way, for someone else. Anything but suicide, which is just giving in for the sake of giving in. 

Probably only a matter of time before I'm booted off here. Various reasons being weighed up. None of them factual, none of them humanitarian. No real welcoming or interest in anything I write. And anything I do write just seems to get me shut out so I can't access my profile again and have to start again, probably because someone has triggered an alert to get me kicked off. S*** just keeps on happening. All my life, like a curse. 

No matter I guess. Suicide forums are probably more obliged to keep me on but even then they have their limits and will probably block me after a while. It's only when you truly feel that you have no-one though, I have found, in my 20+ years' experience of living with despair and self-imposed solitude, that you can truly be free from society. Not that I want to be. I love people. I love being around people. I care deeply for people. I would lay down my life for my friends, if I had any. But the hate and corruption of this fallen world is a reality that never fails to surprise me.

Whether or not it is autism that afflicts me, (yes, afflicts me) it is just one more demonic attack in the history of my existence that I shall either learn to live with, by myself if necessary, or see that it destroys me. I doubt I'll ever get a diagnosis (I resent the retort of the 'you can just go private' brigade on principle - I was born under the NHS and I'll die under the NHS, so help me God) but it doesn't deter me from at least trying to help myself when I feel I have even a modicum of willpower to do so.

I've apologised before for posts that can be misconstrued or misunderstood in some way, just as a precaution if nothing else, but I just don't care anymore. I pretty much know I'm doomed. If I had any serious willpower, I'd like to starve myself to death. Sticking it right to God: 'if You want to use me, then just keep me alive without my relying on my need to sustain this cursed body and mind that You've burdened me with'. See, I don't even care about blasphemy anymore. I welcome eternal damnation as a release from this hell on earth, with all its component mockers and casual insults as I bear my own cross. 

I would never willingly hurt anyone; physically or emotionally. And I hold to this. It won't be enough to get me into heaven but nothing will. I wasn't created to last forever. Well, none of us were. But God won't have me, I believe. Not because of anything I've done/haven't done and not through any especially existential crisis of faith that I'm not chosen by grace to be saved. It's a gut feeling I can't shift and I'm destined to face death as the atheist does - either convincing themselves that they've done 'all they can' or wracked with guilt for not accepting the gracious offer of life everlasting.

I crash and burn every day, only to be revived with the dawn to crash and burn tomorrow. Thus the curse of being alive and the shadow of death that hovers over me but which I cannot merge into. I am stuck in life and I hate myself for living.

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  • Numb. Numb that I'm still alive. It's not my time yet. Numb that I'm so close to people that I could physically reach out and touch them (which of course you can't do) yet feel so far apart. Numb to the thoughts that go through my head, to the prayers that I pray, to the feelings and emotions that flicker and die before I can even attempt to express them. Numb to the pain of it all. (Un)comfortably numb. Dead to the world. Alive to spirit and truth. That's all I care about now.

    Last day with my children tomorrow after giving them everything I have today. Walking around in a daze whenever I'm without them. My children. The wife and children I abandoned with no intention of doing so. How it still destroys me nearly two years on. Spending time with them. Being reminded, painfully, of how it used to be when I lived with them. How I gave them everything. All the money I've ever earned wasted in rent. My mental health shattered after 12 years of marriage. Nothing is getting better. It's all downhill from here.

  • I hope you can enjoy your time with your children today. I know the pain of my divorce.. 26 years ago now. Looking back it was only God who put my life back together. I  was totally broken by it all aswell at the time. I did have the children though living with me so I realise that is a big difference. In a happy marriage now, things can be made good and new over time. Its about surviving day to day initially isn't it. I will keep praying for you x

  • Thank you and thank you for your honesty. Divorce is hell. The separation was tough enough but I left the option of the finality of divorce to her as I couldn't stomach the sin. I knew that she could be free of me and happier as a result so we parted and made it legal. The stain of divorce weighs heavy on my conscience. She was my first relationship, the first person I'd ever been with. An autistic girl after my own heart. No-one and nothing compares to her. My children are evidence of what we have together and we remain friends. My heart remains broken and that is fine. Sitting with her now. Superficially friends, with the kids happily playing upstairs. Like nothing's changed. But, of course, everything has. I'm no-one post-marriage. No purpose, no drive. Just existing and hoping that some hope remains. She was quite convinced that it's bipolar and I see her point. The kind of person who it is very hard to live with, despite our mutual love. Do this, do that - seek help here, seek help there. It's all I ever get but nothing works. The NHS is broken and I hate the thought of private healthcare. I'd rather die than receive prioritised healthcare over someone just because I'm paying, or paying more for it. No, I'll wait my turn and wait until my number is up. Go through the motions. If they can save me, so be it. If not, then so be it. I just don't care anymore.

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  • Thank you and thank you for your honesty. Divorce is hell. The separation was tough enough but I left the option of the finality of divorce to her as I couldn't stomach the sin. I knew that she could be free of me and happier as a result so we parted and made it legal. The stain of divorce weighs heavy on my conscience. She was my first relationship, the first person I'd ever been with. An autistic girl after my own heart. No-one and nothing compares to her. My children are evidence of what we have together and we remain friends. My heart remains broken and that is fine. Sitting with her now. Superficially friends, with the kids happily playing upstairs. Like nothing's changed. But, of course, everything has. I'm no-one post-marriage. No purpose, no drive. Just existing and hoping that some hope remains. She was quite convinced that it's bipolar and I see her point. The kind of person who it is very hard to live with, despite our mutual love. Do this, do that - seek help here, seek help there. It's all I ever get but nothing works. The NHS is broken and I hate the thought of private healthcare. I'd rather die than receive prioritised healthcare over someone just because I'm paying, or paying more for it. No, I'll wait my turn and wait until my number is up. Go through the motions. If they can save me, so be it. If not, then so be it. I just don't care anymore.

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