Dear lackoftrust:

Your username, lack of trust, and your sentence: “I do not want to trust people anymore”- my comment on your story and trust:

It is understandable why you are lacking trust in people and why you don’t want to trust people. It will be unwise for you, at this point, with your experience, to trust people. It would be incongruent with your experiences to trust people.

Make an exception here and there and trust a person only after knowing that person thoroughly, over time.

But otherwise, keep your distrust, it has been proven- by your own account- reasonable, rational, and necessary.

You wrote: “I also want to make art that is beautiful so that I can try to believe that maybe somewhere out there is a glimmer of hope for me a glimmer of hope that I can gift to another. This is my mission.’- this very post you wrote is written beautifully. Your very mission is a “glimmer of hope” that you have gifted to me, your reader.

You wrote: “suicide for me is like a great window of opportunity to escape this world”- that “great window of opportunity” is the end of us all, that is, death. We will all escape this world given time.

Keep telling the truth. The one telling it is beautiful.

anita