
I lay on the ground unable to move, my chest feels as if someone has riped out my heart and started a fire in my chest leaving me bleeding and broken. It’s a task just to breath in and out. In the distance I hear a voice…..it sounds familiar but I block it out. The whole world is silent as I cry over due tears that burn my face like lemon in a fresh cut. As I gasp for breath I lose all hope of geting up. I finally give up when I hear that damn voice again. “Can’t they just leave me alone and let me die in peace.” I whisper to myself.
When I would wake up in my head, I had no idea as to what had happened. I’m fully conscious, I know that I’m me, but I can’t open my eyes, I can’t move a muscle and I can’t speak. The first time it happened was terrifying. I started to panic and for a minute there, I thought I might be dead. Then I realized that I was thinking, so that didn’t seem right. I tried to move and couldn’t. I tried to speak and couldn’t. I tried to scream and couldn’t. This feeling of helplessness was so obnoxious.
I opened my eyes and the first thing that struck my eyes were the huge white curtains moving slowly back and forth due to the wind blowing. I tried to memorize where I was and how did I reach here? As soon as I saw the clock hung above the curtains it showed 6:02 pm. It was evening and I had no idea how I woke up so late. The beep-beep sound of pulse monitor broke the silence in the room. I scanned all the objects in the room and realised that I was in the hospital ICU. For a while I was thinking what happened to me? I wanted to call Dad and ask him what was happening. So I tried to get up but I couldn’t even move my hands or fingers. My feet were cold too. My body felt stiff but numb. I wanted to shout out loud but everything I was willing to do was turning into epic fail.
Soon the nurse entered and she saw me awake. She rushed out and called doctors to examine me. I was relieved to see Dad when he entered the ICU, but he was sobbing and something was wrong which I couldn’t understand at that point. After a while doctor said that I am in coma and the damage is done already. Obviously I couldn’t understand the medical terms used by the doctors but I knew what lead to this destruction.
I closed my eyes just to recall the biggest tragedy of my life: It was 1 am and everybody was dead asleep. I went to the kitchen searched here and there and located the plastic bag which had all the medicines. I opened it and took out all the sleeping pills. I was very nervous at first because this didn’t seem relevant to escape the pain that was whirling inside me. But my mind had already decided to die. So I gulped all the pills and they were approximately 100 in nos.. I had no idea what mistake I just did. But within minutes my body felt different. My eyes were burning and body was heating up. My head was spinning and it began getting heavy. My legs felt weak and I kneeled down to support my body. I tried crawling to my parents room as I knew I was gonna faint. My heart was throbbing very fastly and the beat was shaking every nerve of my body. Dad was half asleep when he first saw me nearby his rooms door. He rushed towards me as I collapsed on the ground recklessly. Next moment I opened my eyes I saw myself tied to the bed in the ICU.
Dad sat nearby me with his watery eyes and murmured all words of consolation to me. But deep inside I knew he was consoling himself and not me as he was worried as a parent but cared as a friend for me. He was the biggest supporter of my life and I was sad that I was the reason behind his tears. I never saw him crying so much ever in these 18 years. I knew I was very precious to him and I regretted behaving like this.
I wanted to hug him tightly and apologise but I couldn’t so I just laid there on the bed crying and expressing my love for him. My world was crashing down as I was hurting all the people who loved me genuinely just to escape the feeling of depression which made me commit suicide always.
After all the attempts of killing myself, I still ended up surviving with this pain. I just thought that physical pain will make me forget the emotional pain. And that’s what lead me to this coma.
I was locked in this world of coma where I was just as good as a corpse. I observed everything going around me and the only thing that grabbed my attention was my dads face. His eyes turned red because of the stress and all the sleepless nights he spent crying just for me. I was extremely sorry but couldn’t help with it. I regretted my each and every move till now and cursed myself for not being a good daughter despite of having such great loving parents.
At midnight my mind starts wandering…..I don’t know why I’m thinking so hard tonight. Why am I talking to myself so loud? Why is my soul becoming darker? Why is silence echoing all around? I was laying on bed staring blankly at the white walls, remembering the golden memories of my rusted past. Was all this really worth it? Was this really destined to happen? Then why do bad things happen to good people? So many questions were revolting in my tiny yet tender mind and the answer I received was just the silence!
I was quite but was speaking a lot in my mind. There will come a day when you’ll realize that darkness has consumed you for too long and pain has made a home in a body that is better suited for light and this is the day you will truly begin to heal.
You are not the sum of your heartbreaks.
You are strong but not unbreakable
Forgive the cracks in your heart.