I want to apologize to the many who may have worried for my life about a month ago.
I live.
For the sake of addressing this now, the reason I am making a public thread is because so many messaged me. Perhaps indolence seeks to caress me, but I see this as the best choice.
And I feel you should know.
I had a sister. My only sibling. My own age. I will not trouble whoever reads this with the additional ravagings of my life, but know that she was the only one I ever had. The only one I felt true emotion for - the only one I allowed myself to feel emotion for.
Many had worked to offset my physical needs, but only she had given me more.
Once distracted with the demagogues and pleasures and noise of world, like all children were, she had walked further than I and sought to save me as well.
A radiant angel in the systemic darkness of night, her wings had covered me and surrounded me with an Eden of light.
Always acting with the knowledge, determination, and sadness of one far older, she had effectively raised me.
She bent my mind to logic, she teased me with philosophy, she indulged me in conversations I could have with no one else.
And with what humanity I could find in my soulless casket, I sought to learn. To prove she had succeeded, if for no other reason. To prove she was transcendental.
In her success, I found joy. In her humility, I found sorrow. But always, I sought to prove myself, if only for her.
But the nightmares which haunt all who would give them form through their own treacherous thoughts lurked.
Always above me, those apparitions hunted her with greater ferocity. And, like some blind tool of the malevolent, I questioned her regarding my own daemons. And, without thought, she always answered me, always took my pursuers away by throwing her own mind before them.
In my admiration, I would not contemplate that she would be left alone, that she would find a riddle unanswerable.
And so, the leviathans hunted. And, through sheer number, they found her.
Nihilism. Determinism. Absolutism. And a thousand others, elevated by the diction of intellectuals, as if hiding their true form.
All unrelated. But, in a show of universal cruelty, they all came together for her.
On the 15th of November, a Friday. I had the honor. The curse. The enlightenment. My eyes, pried open as if to be gouged.
It was I who found her.
I had rushed in her room, a dark foreboding in my heart - a foreboding I had hidden for some time.
Deep within the depths of my erudite shell, the mask she had created for me, my soul collapsed.
It was a simple set up. A chair, kicked over. The ceiling fan had been dismounted, its mount repurposed to serve a far darker god.
And before me was purity and truth, kindness and joy, the embodiment of the philosopher's stone, as if she was the Greek goddess Epigone, hanging from a tree after finding the body of her father Icarius.
Her feet were pointed towards the floor, as if mocking it because it was not worthy to support them.
The noose around her neck left a blue and black ring under and above it, as if the collar which held her in the world had become visible with her death.
And I simply looked. I didn't call out, or approach, or back away.
But I was trembling.
And my eyes were teary - my arrogance gone, my apathy having fled.
I can't truly describe what I felt, for I felt so much.
I had always known, deep down, that it would come to this. That this was how destiny would one day betray me.
And out of all I felt, surprise was the only emotion absent.
I had always run from the foreboding, but now, as if in some nightmare made terrifying by its sheer realism, I saw my dread given form.
I don't know how long I stood there, but eventually they found me...and her.
And throughout the rest of the evening, I heard them mock her. They cried. And remarked over and over. "She had so much potential, how could she have done this?" "She was doing well, why would she do this?" "She was so ahead, she had such a great future, why would she throw it away?"
And so the plebeians, unable to comprehend what she had comprehended, unable to see what she had seen, rambled about her.
I could ignore so much, I could be so cold, but I could not ignore the scorn. I was forced to listen, to be affected by every word, and then to have them question why I didn't partake. But I endured, because I knew what I would do.
That night, I had a nightmare. I found doubt. I saw an apocalyptic beast, a dragon with many heads. At first, I only saw three - they were grotesque, and upon each head was a word. "Fear." "Ignorance." "Chaos." Those were their names, the words on their heads. And I saw them devour flesh, and I was afraid. And then I saw three more heads, but these heads were beautiful, adorned with diamonds, their skin constantly twisting into beautiful fractal patterns. Their heads were perfectly symmetrical and androgynous. Their heads were adorned with their names as well. "Logic." "Veracity." "Impartiality." Everything I had once praised. And then, I saw them slaughter and feast with the first three heads, as if there was no difference between them.
And I was terrified.
A final, seventh head emerged, its neck protruding from in between the two sets of three. It was much larger than the others, and its name, the word on its head, was "Truth." It was repulsive and beautiful. Constantly changing, eyes and mouths and toothed orifices appeared and disappeared across it, oozing maggots and human waste. Wings of light and perfect orbs of dancing rainbows swam across its features. Tentacles, cut open and bleeding, burst from across its already hideous face. I can not describe how terrible it was, how horrified I was.
I tried to scream, but found myself paralyzed in fear. I had never been so terrified.
And then, in its eternal dance between beauty and filth, I saw her face flash over it. It was logical, she was an epitome of perfection to me, her face was in place with its rainbows and fractals.
But it was her face.
Being desecrated by this beast.
My fear turned to rage. My terror disappeared in an instant, unspeakable horror replaced by a confidence and a hatred I had never felt before. I stared at it, watching it twist and distort and molt in ever more sickening ways, but repulsion or fear never again crossed my mind. Only rage. I had been a bodyless observer throughout the dream, but now I willed my consciousness toward it, as if intending to somehow harm it, to kill it for what it had done. And I woke up.
My heart was pounding. I was sweating profusely. I could hear a relative crying in an adjacent room. But I know what it all meant. I had seen knowledge and reason devour her alongside chaos and blindness. Everything she loved - everything I loved- I had watched betray her.
Over the next few days, I said my goodbyes. This site was included in that - through my profile update, easy to miss. I said more to those who inquired.
I looked at the scars on my arms and body. Mathematical equations, representations of hyperspheres and transdimensional constants, I had painfully cut into places on my skin, signs of my devotion to the absolute. They were intermingled with random lacerations and slashes, evidence of my emotions in the sea of reason.
She had never approved of my cutting, but now I felt shame beyond understanding. How could I have cut, have wounded myself in pity, when she was undergoing so much more pain? How could I have felt sorrow when she was standing against so much more?
But I had known what I was going to do from when I first found her. As I said my goodbyes to my internet endeavors, and as I wrote cryptic poetry to those I knew in real life, I procured the needed chemicals.
Using the most of my knowledge and equipment, and taking advantage of how distracted everyone around me was, I prepared a solution of sodium pentobarbital.
And on the night of November 19th, I prepared a syringe loaded with the solution.
I found my Ulnar artery and inserted the syringe into it.
I was very emotional - to an extent I had never been before.
And I was joyous for this - I faced the terrors which had killed her, and I told them that they would not claim me.
Emotion would kill me. Not thought.
My heart would end this, not my mind.
And as I choked back tears, I thought of her. Despite the resistance in my overloaded vein, I forced every drop out of the syringe before I allowed myself to fall limp.
When I woke up, I knew I had failed her. I had failed everything.
The nurses rushed to my side, calling the attention of doctors and relatives.
Their smiles and energetic greetings mocked my failure.
Despite having just come out of a coma, I cried.
The lectures never ceased. Family members, mental health "professionals," religious demagogues. All harassed me, rambling about that which they could not comprehend. I was always surrounded with the helminths, yet I had never been so alone.
I had once discussed nihilism, complained of apathy. I had once claimed allegiance to them.
But I never really knew them before now.
No insult or jeer could harm me.
No expression of love or kindness could move me.
I was livid on the night I had attempted suicide. Filled with emotion.
I was truly alive on that night, unaware this fact would soon be shrouded in irony.
Afterwards, I was soulless and empty. Not broken, or derelict, or depressed.
Just...nothing.
I know what it means to be dead.
And so I have "lived."
My life maintained by those who never see any other truth.
My life maintained by my own weariness.
I am too tired to fight those who wish to make me live.
I am gravely sorry if this hurts anyone.
It is something I have to say.
Something which deserves to be articulated.
To someone.
To anyone who cares to listen and see.
A reply. An explanation.
An apology.
















