50 Reasons to Stay Alive.
- I know forsure that there’s at least one person, besides my family, that would miss me.
- Assuming there’s an afterlife, I would hate to see people cry for me from the other side. People look ugly when they cry.
- I still haven’t met Harry Styles.
- Whoever does my makeup for my funeral might mess it up.
- I’ve never been to New York.
- I don’t like being confined in small spaces. A coffin and I wouldn’t mix.
- Choosing the day of my death would be extremely difficult. I’m very indecisive.
- “I’m still young, and I wanna love again.”
- I’m skeptical about marriage and relationships in general but I want to know what it’s like to find the love of my life.
- I want to know who wins the 2016 Presidential Election.
- Donald Trump will most definitely die in my lifetime. I want to be around for that.
- I’ll break my family’s hearts.
- I’ll break a couple other hearts. One of which I can’t bear to do so.
- My dog will probably miss me.
- If God is real, she’d probably be extremely disappointed to see one of her masterpieces go to waste.
- I still haven’t learned how to drive.
- There is music I have yet to listen to.
- There are books I have yet to read.
- There are places I have yet to go to.
- There are people I have yet to meet.
- Being a writer, I’d probably take forever to write my suicide note. And when I finish, it still won’t be as good as I want it to be.
- With my luck, I would probably get into USC but that won’t matter if I’m dead.
- Everyone who thought I’d go somewhere in life would wonder where it all went wrong.
- All they’d say would be “Such a shame. She had so much potential.” I don’t need your pity.
- Only one person would know why I did it. And I don’t want him to hold that burden.
- I want to know who Shonda Rhimes decides to kill next in one of her shows.
- What if I don’t see Amy Winehouse in my afterlife? I’d be extremely disappointed.
- I’d probably raise some beautiful, socially aware children.
- A boy once told be that pain demanded to be felt (long before John Green made it into a cheesy rhetoric). I have to embrace this pain and grow from it.
- I haven’t lived a “my funeral will be packed” type of life just yet.
- Dying would only give my friends more reasons to get drunk and I hate it when they do that.
- I wouldn’t want the boy I loved to know how I truly felt through a suicide note. That would suck.
- I still haven’t demolished the patriarchy.
- I have a lot more I want to do.
- In high school, I was voted “Most likely to save the world.” And I would like to fulfill that.
- A parent shouldn’t have to bury their child.
- I may feel lonely at times but I’m not. I have people who love me. I have people who care. I have people who understand. I’m not alone.
- Should I end up in hell, I don’t want to see people I hate there.
- The clothes I’m buried in might be hideous.
- With my luck, Frank Ocean might drop his album after I die.
- A little girl once told me I inspired her. I don’t want to let her down.
- All that money I spent on makeup would go to waste.
- I’ve overcome this already.
- I’d really miss chocolate covered strawberries.
- I haven’t written my tell-all book.
- I’ve never read any of the Harry Potter books.
- There are things I have left unsaid.
- I haven’t given myself enough time to love myself.
- Like they say, suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
- There are a lot more reasons to live than there are to die.
This poem is about:
Me
My family
My community