13 years old
At 11 years old, I repeated to myself: I will never pass the age of thirteen.
At 12, when I was asked about the future, I thought: good thing that I won’t be older than thirteen...
At 13, I was organizing my farewell while trying to learn second-grade equation. I was going to school, but I only thought about finishing the suicide letters.
And then, suddenly, the 13 years were behind.
When i turned 14, I said: it’s okay, I won’t pass 14...
But I passed..
Now I am practically an adult, dealing with a future that I never got the job of planning - but how would I? I never thought about colleges, entrance exams, relationships or children...
After all, dead people don’t study, dead people don’t date, dead people don’t start families.
Birthdays have become reminders of a life that has gone on for too long.
While my colleagues were talking about colleges, I closed my eyes and wished to stop existing..
What exists after death? What is the life I’m missing there? Maybe finally there was serenity, or maybe there wouldn’t be anything, anyway.
Maybe the only thing holding me here is the fear of finding out that there was still something waiting for me here, or regretting it too late.
Despite this, in the silence of the night, I beg for eternal rest. Or courage.
If I weren’t a coward, I would not have gone beyond thirteen. And it would have been better that way..
But I passed.