New Reasons

"cute ways of telling people you're depressed"

Notes to Self are longer journal entries from Seven Yrs Ago. I was 21 in early 2014.

cute ways of telling people you’re depressed

(title courtesy of Seamus Gallagher)

  • cyanide chocolate

  • wearing a frowny face t-shirt

  • one carnation per confession

  • make a pull-string toy of yourself (wooden?) that goes “Awww I’m sad”

  • a teddy bear with a heart shaped hole in its chest that when you hug it, it goes “Awww, I needed that.”

  • sad-a-grams

  • a kid dressed as a clown that you ground in front of everyone. nope. too far.

  • free pot brownies

  • put on lipstick, a pout, and say it

  • a piñata of the word DEPRESSION that explodes jk confetti

  • letting aphids eat your daisy garden, then telling people about it.

  • take a cupcake and crush it in your fist. hard.

  • buy yourself a caged bird and discourage it from singing

  • adopt a puppy, name it after yourself and and have it wear a little cape that says PET ME I BEG OF YOU

  • lethal injection wait

For commentary seven years later, go here.