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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
Alternate: Splat! Use that word in a story or a poem.

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The Way I Made It Hurt

The first time I cut into my arm felt like the best thing in the world
The sharp blade piercing into my flesh
Feeling the tingle was so exhilarating
The first pool and then a flood of my very own blood felt like the most powerful thing
Like I was above everyone else
That was the only time I ever felt good about myself.
After a while, it just stopped working.
Each time I did it, I had to carve deeper and deeper,
Drawing more and more blood each time to feel anything.

Question- "it felt like the best thing in the world" ...

Submitted by BlondBlondiie on August 13, 2008 - 07:42.

In your poem you say " it felt like the best thing in the world" , what exactly is that?? i mean i understand to some extent why people use self-mutilation to feel things, but what is it that people feel from that, that they can find no where else??Im just trying to understand the un-understandable, is it to acataleptic for outsiders to understand??

"happiness shines in a cirle of ponies"..words to live by!

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AHHHH!!!

Submitted by Schila on August 13, 2008 - 09:35.

Dang... isin't there something more powerful than cutting yourself... Anything?
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Credula vitam spes fovet et melius cras fore semper dicit - Credulous hope supports our life, and always says that tomorrow will be better. (Tibullus)

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