I don't trust other humans anymore and am broken by the loneliness.
Do you guys ever just feel like you would rather not "exist"? Like you would prefer to be a spirit free of a body, not having to worry about human relationships or feel a thing about them?
I trust almost no one after a friend I loved attacked me with a knife in recent months, an event which was swiftly followed by a family member using contemptuous, targeted words I don't want to get into here simply because I wanted to talk to her on the phone after years of not getting to do so (we live far away from each other). I went through horrific abuse by my immediate family for years from childhood until my late twenties, and it feels like that's been my entire life. I'll feel like I'm doing things well and have people I love, and then they turn around and betray me like this.
I can't bear it anymore.
I don't like people. I can't trust them not to hate me just for breathing the wrong way. I only feel like I can trust animals, and I don't have the means to keep any right now.
I'm not yet middle-aged, but I feel too old now to make new friendships that will just die away or wind up disappointed in me (or contemptuous to the point of actively trying to harm me like my former best friend). I just don't feel interested in humans right now, because they're just so cruel, and something about me inspires them to want to hurt me. It makes me hate myself, too, because I don't understand why. I genuinely liked people and tried my hardest to be a good friend/family member. Knowing intense abuse, particularly narcissistic abuse, I don't engage in that bullsh*t. I try to live by the Golden Rule, and I feel like I never ever get that same courtesy back. Instead I'm a punching bag. Something about me is just too much, makes other people want to harm me.
I just wish I didn't exist, if that makes sense. Or was some kind of spirit looking over humanity, but not having to take part in it or rely on it or feel human emotions. I'm a creator and love my creations and trust in them fully. But to only feel safe with fictional people of one's own making must be the loneliest life of all.
I'm so tired.
I know you'll all understand.