Sometimes we feel like we are nothing.

Sometimes we feel as if we are a burden, like we are wrong, like we are hated.

He felt this, too.

A little boy, only seven years old, felt like this.

His mother was an abusive one, and his father moved out to escape her, leaving the child behind.

Abused every night, this young boy was hurt both emotionally and physically. He didn't know what to do.

This abuse happened day after day for years. But along with the abuse, the child started getting bullied at the age of ten. He started harming himself at the age of eleven. His mother just treated him worse for being "weak".

He felt as if he was nothing,

he was a burden,
he was wrong,
he was hated.

With everything still going on every single day, he entered highschool.

He started getting bullied even more. His grades started dropping, he got skinnier, he wore long sleeves, he wore jeans.

And he still managed to graduate.

Then something changed.

He moved out of his mom's house, so he stopped getting abused.

He met a beautiful girl in college.

She taught him to love himself.

He stopped harming himself.

By junior year, he had clean for a year.

He was happy.

It took time, but he did it.

You just have to try. You have to separate yourself from harmful people. Think positive.

It's shitty coming from me, a person who still to this day harms herself, a person who can't see themselves after five years, who can't see themselves succeeding in life; but I can't stand to see or hear about anybody who feels the same way I do. So, I wrote this.
It isn't very good and it's unedited, but I wanted to write something like this.