I think experiencing things I never have before is more important to me than most people. Not always so much creating new experiences but when something happens to me, embracing it because its new and different, even if its painful.
Sometimes, I make them happen. I had some suicidal friends who would cut themselves, and I didn’t understand why. So I cut my arm several times pretty deeply. It was interesting, but I still didnt entirely understand. I couple of years later I became suicidal and wanted to kill myself, I picked up a knife, and had a inexplainable desire to cut myself. I don’t know how to explain it, but I felt a real urge. I think I would have, had I not experimented previously.
Later, when I was feeling down, but didn’t actually want to die, I did cut myself, I it wasn’t till then that i really realized why people cut themselves, its almost like the blood is stress in a physical form leaving your body. I felt stress, and depression and anger inside of my, in my chest, painfully and I did a action to figuratively relieve my stress (cutting my arm) and I could kinda imagine the blood coming out being stress leaving my body.
I don’t suggest cutting as a means of coping with life. I believe it can help people cope, but at the same time it creates new problems, problems which I feel outweigh any relief achieved from cutting.
Another time, I walked from the city I live in to a neighboring city, walking all night from midnight to 7 am. I walked 20 miles, I had barely slept or eaten for 2 days. I felt weird after that. Exhausted, my whole body hurt. I wasn’t on drugs. I have never done a drug besides caffeine, alcohol and pot, and I wasn’t doing any of those at the time either. I am glad I did it. I want to do it again, except Ill sleep and eat beforehand, and walk further. I nearly had a mental breakdown. That might seem bad, but I know people who have had them and now I can truly relate to them when they talk about it, and thats a blessing.
I want to get shot. With a gun. I would prefer to have a doctor do it. Not sure if its possible to find a doctor willing in the united states, they could probably be fired. I’m not entirely sure if its even legal. I don’t really think its all that strange of a goal to have, several other people on here have the same goal, and I’m sure most people wonder from time to time what its really like.
Every time I have a new experience like that, it really opens up my mind, and I understand others a little better.