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Drowning.
<p><sub>I can't breathe.</sub></p><p><sub>I tried again.</sub></p><p><sub>Nothing.</sub></p><p><sub>My lungs burned.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>The water surrounded me, cold and unforgiving, pressing against every part of my body.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>I can't...</sub></p><p><sub>My chest tightened.</sub></p><p><sub>I'm so scared.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>Is this how it's going to end?</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>I tried to move, but everything felt heavier.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>I couldn't tell which way was up anymore.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>The surface looked so far away.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>So impossibly far.</sub></p><p><sub>I wanted to scream, but there was no sound.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>Only bubbles escaping my lips and disappearing into the darkness.</sub></p><p><sub>I'm too young.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>I haven't even lived yet.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>There are still so many things I haven't done.</sub></p><p><sub>So many places I haven't seen.</sub></p><p><sub>So many things I thought I had time for.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>Why does it have to end like this?</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>What did I do wrong?</sub></p><p><sub>I thought I had more time.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>My thoughts became scattered.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>Then, somehow, I remembered home.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>Mom.</sub></p><p><sub>Dad.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>I should have listened.</sub></p><p><sub>I should have stayed home.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>Maybe they were right.</sub></p><p><sub>Maybe I should have turned back when I still could.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>Would they even know what happened to me?</sub></p><p><sub>Would anyone find me?</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>Or would the water simply keep me here until there was nothing left to find?</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>I'm sorry, Mom.</sub></p><p><sub>I'm sorry, Dad.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>I wish I could tell them.</sub></p><p><sub>I wish I could go back.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>The darkness beneath me seemed endless.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>I sank deeper.</sub></p><p><sub>And deeper.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>The light above became smaller, slowly disappearing until it looked like a distant star.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>I reached for it.</sub></p><p><sub>My fingers stretched toward something I could no longer reach.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>What would become of me?</sub></p><p><sub>I was drowning.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>And the terrifying part wasn't just that I couldn't breathe.</sub></p><p><sub>It was that I didn't know how to come back up.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>I kept reaching.</sub></p><p><sub>Kept trying.</sub></p><p><sub>Kept looking for the surface.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>But the deeper I went, the quieter everything became.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>I was surrounded with...</sub></p><p><sub>Just darkness.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>And then the thought came again.</sub></p><p><sub>Is this the end?</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>I don't know how long I stayed there.</sub></p><p><sub>Seconds.....</sub></p><p><sub>Maybe an eternity.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>But somewhere above me...</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>The light was still there.</sub></p><p><sub>And I was still reaching for it.</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>It because farther and unreachable </sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub>Is this the end?</sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><sub><br/></sub></p><p><span style="font-size: 10.5px; vertical-align: sub; background-color: transparent;"><strong>(Tried expressing everything I felt while staring at this image;</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10.5px; vertical-align: sub; background-color: transparent;"><strong>This isn't just about drowning. Sometimes, the deepest waters are the ones nobody can see.)</strong></span></p><p><sub></sub></p><p><span style="font-size: 10.5px;"><br/></span></p><p><sub><strong><em>~inspired by the image.</em></strong></sub></p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/2d775f2515b88dadb132fc2c1bef1d3b.jpg"/></p>
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