Ulcasterdropout said:
ever watch an animal drown? I have. It's not a quick easy ordeal.
True story: I actually almost drown once.
A bunch of us were swimming in a resevoir late one night. There is a measuring tower way out in the middle where everyone was climbing up and jumping off of it. I was back on shore with a few others, including the girl I was seeing at the time. I'm a horrible swimmer and I sink like a rock in water, but she convinced me to swim out there with her. It was a good distance to the tower but I made it. Of course I played it all macho saying it wasn't so bad, but in reality I was terrified, exhausted, and barely made it out there.
So we spent quite some time climbing up and jumping off of this tower. After awhile we got tired of it and decided to swim back to the trucks. Swimming back I lagged behind, WAY behind. I was exhausted from climbing up that damn tower, and the trip back just wasn't working out. About halfway back I started to falter, I resorted to a doggie paddle (just to stay afloat) and tried to yell for help, but I was so exhausted that I could barely make a sound, and they were so far ahead of me.
I remember going under the water, completely helpless, I was so tired that I couldn't even lift my arms. I held my breath as long as I could, sinking, thinking to myself what a yutz I was for even trying to swim out there. I don't know how long I was under for but it seemed like minutes, so many things went through my mind. I had just started to swallow water when my best friend grabbed ahold of me and brought me to the surface. He swam me all the way back to shore by himself.
When we got back the two of us just layed there, gasping for breath, not even able to get ourselves up off of the ground. Everyone just sat around us, realizing that I had almost died right there and then. No one spoke a single word the whole way home.
That day changed my life. I realized that you could die at any time, without ever seeing it coming. And if you died right now, would you be proud of the life you led? Would you have accomplished everything you wanted to do, seen all that you wanted to see? Would the people you love know how you felt about them before you died? You see life through different glasses when you have spent every ounce of energy you have just trying to stay the fuck alive, and failing.
Ulcaster bro, I hope you really don't want to kill yourself and die, because someday if you ever get the gumption to actually try suicide you may get to the brink and change your mind, too late to stop it. Believe me, death is a scary permanent motherfucker when you actually face it down. We are all here for a short time, might as well make the stay as long as you possibly can and just enjoy the time you have.
Death is forever, life is fleeting. Savor it man, just savor it.