I've come to the conclusion that you cannot change the minds of fools and hypocrites (you may have come to this conclusion a long time ago, but bear with me here). You cannot break down their logic with yours, for they do not operate on logic. They operate on italicized words and fluffy phrases and unicorns and panda bears and suicide threats and grandiose visions of a future that will never be. You just can't win against something so illogical as that, so why even try? They're playing a game you don't even know the rules to, so every time they come out on top while you're left wondering how anyone could still believe the earth is flat. You can scream yourself hoarse about the rules of life and science and how things really work but they'll still tell you that 2+2=17 if you just Believe it does.

So I'm just done. I'm done with fools and hypocrites. I'm done with faulty logic and passive-aggressive guilt-fests and the generation of clinically depressed attention whores and the people who glorify them. I'm done with kowtowing to people who are more pathetic than I (and I'm pretty damn pathetic) simply because otherwise they won't see me as worthy to grace their presence. I'm done with self-hating narcissists (except for myself, of course ;3) and drama queens and non-conformists and anti-establishment posers. I'm done with a social hierarchy that places the weakest, whiniest cutters and users at the top and the good, solid, stable people at the bottom. I'm done with feeling bad because I DON'T have problems, because I'm well-adjusted and normal and average. I'm done accepting faulty logic just because if I argue against it, I'm seen as a non-believer and therefore The Enemy.

I'm done with that shit, and I'm done playin' games. Instead, I'm leavin' all these depressing peeps behind and going forward with everything good and bright and exciting! (And also cynical, judgmental, and mean-spirited, cause a girl has gotta stay true to herself - am I right?) I wash my hands of them and theirs, will now officially close my ears to their complaints and problems. I will take on no more false burdens to weigh down my weary soul. You can fight no man's demons for him, after all; he's gotta do that himself.

Welcome, friends, to the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one. Shall we call it, perhaps... Elyssa 2.0?


And your friends have left you,
you've been dismissed.
I never thought it would come to this,
and I, I want you to know:
everyone's got to face down the demons.

Maybe today
we can put the past away.