I kept meaning to post this. I kept thinking about it in my head for the last few days and just haven’t found the energy to write it down.
I took a bath the other night, at two in the morning. It was late and I wasn’t tired and I felt gross so I decided it would be a good idea to shower, but with how dark it was a bath seemed more reasonable and more relaxing to me. I was in the bath and I laid my head back to wet my hair, and I could hear all around me… I knew it was just the sound of the water in my ears and the pipes behind the wall but it sounded like whispering. Loud. Ear shatteringly loud whispering. I tried desperately to make out what they were saying to me, I couldn’t hear any words though. It was too loud to be understood. Everything got kind of…off, after that. And I could feel my brain slipping into dark areas. I started to fantasize about killing myself. I was so tired I would fall asleep the second I shut my eyes and it was so dark and smelt nice. It would have been so easy to just push my head down a little further, and take a nap. Permanently. But I started to think of the logistics of it. I don’t usually get up early. Even if I’m awake I lay in bed the entire day, only getting up to use the bathroom or if my parents are making me. So they wouldn’t find anything weird about me sleeping in. Around ten am, my parents would get upset at me for not getting up yet, and would try talking to me. They’d open my door and tell me to get up, but wouldn’t go in. Therefore wouldn’t notice I’m not there. Around maybe noon is when they’d find it weird and go and do the same thing, but assume I’m still just sleeping and let me be. Around 1 thirty ish is when they’d go in, and finally notice I’m not there. They’ll start looking for me until eventually someone notices the bathroom door is locked and they’d yell for me. When I don’t respond is when they’ll get scared. My mom will be too scared to go near, just kind of yelling at everyone, while my dad and brother likely somehow get into the bathroom. And they’ll see me. Just kind of…floating. Thats where I can’t tell what would happen next. Up to there I can plan it out a bunch of different possibilities, but after I’m found I can’t think of anything. I don’t know what would happen.
What I do know. Most of my friends don’t hear from me much. I’m a rather sociable person in person but it’s rare that I text someone unless I have something defined to say, which isn’t often. This also includes responding to people. The only person I really commonly talk to is Dead Man. And if I went that long without responding he would just assume I’m still asleep. A reasonable assumption considering my mental state lately. Most of the time I have a main person who I speak to obsessively all hours of the day, but after the last one ruined me I haven’t been able to get a new one, so currently I have nobody like that. And my family would not discover me until around two.
At that moment, as I lay in the bath listening to the deafening whispers all around me, I came to the conclusion that if I were to die in that moment, nobody would know for at least twelve hours.
I would be a ghost. Even if ghosts aren’t really real thats the best word to describe what state I would be in at that time. I’d be dead. Happily non-existent. But to everyone else in the world, I’m alive and well, just resting. Not a single soul would know. For twelve hours.
It’s a certain kind of almost painful to know you mean that little. Especially after I took into account that that would be if I died at two. But I stop generally interacting with people after Dead Man goes to sleep, around ten each night. Meaning it could just as possibly be sixteen hours.
Nobody would know.
Who would care.