Despair? I do not despair. Hope, yes, but despair? Despair is a cruel, cruel replacement for lost hope. So hope, still, friends, dare not despair. I am a first person witness that hope takes you everywhere- despair only holds you back.
i despaired when i saw the first word I would write about on one word: despair. No. I’ve already had a low mood day. The last thing I need, I thought immediately, was another downer word.
What else could despair morph into? des pair. Something in French. Plural pairs.
The feeling you get when your waiting for water to boil and you realize that its become common place to cook for one and you don’t see that changing any time soon. How you feel when your walking on a beautiful sunny day and as your dress swirls around your ankles, it utterly perfect until you begin to notice every single person out that day has someone to smile at and talk with and you have never felt so completely alone. Then you slow your walk. You stop on the hard sidewalk and still the day is sunny and perfect but you can’t help but feel smothered by the heat and the open clear air. Until you take a last deep breath of self pity, push the despair and worry and doubt away, force a smile out of your eyes until you can convince yourself that everything is okay and even if it isn’t it will be soon.
The windows clinked nicely, but sadly, it wasn’t nice. A cold wind blew through the room, shaking the normalcy more than anyone could ever know. And what did I do? Nothing. I sat in the despair and rolled in it and cried. I suppose that that’s considered doing something.
Mere Groom
being completely hopeless. thinking that everything goes wrong. giving up.
Kelsey Smith
Everything i knew, everything i was, was a lie. I couldn’t believe i let it go so far. I was angry, you know? Angry at myself. But now i know i’ve lost you. I’ve lost you and you’ll never come back to me. I’m so sorry for what i did.
Sara
sadness lonley i ahte it it sucks i never wanna feel it it makes me wanna go cry in a bal. despair isnt needed in a life. yes sometimes it happens but you dont need it to make yourself complete. happiness is needed. not despair. who wants to be sad? crying death lies friendships. bad ones at least. all suckish. life it a struggle and u have to live with it. good or bad. despair sucks
Danielle
love and desair are so interrealted! why you may ask? becuase they both deal with your heart one breaks it and the other helps it. i know that despair can be deadly to some and eye opening for others but with both love and despair the common theme is that it is different for everyone
monnie
The dark hole swallowed me. I flung my arms out, trying to find something to grab on to, but air rushed through my fingers. There was nothing to hold on to. Nothing to catch me. I cried out, No, I screamed.
Black. Dark. Night. Falling. Dropping. Alone. Dreadful. No hope. Liar. Cheater. Stealer of hearts. Lack of love. Void. Trouble. Space. Fear. Phobia.
Brittany
She cried and cried. She couldn’t stop. She held the desperate, bleeding fish in her bloodied hands and wished she could do something. She couldn’t. She could feel the fish’s last bits of life blood fading and she felt so powerless and overcome with despair that it was all she could do to lay the Fish in the water and let it die in whatever peace there was left in its gory, bloody death.
Olivia Miller
There is no point of despair in life. Everything is perfect, even when it’s not. Because when you look back on things, those moments of despair seem quite trivial, don’t they? Look forward in life with no regrets, no despair. Love, peace, and happiness.
Mirandy
pain that floows through my wrist desperate infectious, vial that consumes me, it takes away my being, my soul. it steals my life. i am truly afraid to be alive. it make life unbearable. i know no other feeling but being alone, being scared and afraid. i want to die.
forever,i’ll be alone in my own despair.
Jaime Morrow
It’s despair again? Okay well maybe I can redeem myself from my last entry, which was pretty pathetic. Despair is the abyss I fall into when I let all the little things pile up and fester inside until it explodes out on the people I love. It’s a feeling of helplessness as well as hopelessness. I think the helplessness it the most core element of despair.
I’m alone, I’m falling, I can’t do anything, I’m lost. I’m in pain, the most horrible pain I’ve ever felt. I’m crying, no one hears me. I’m dark, I’m colorless, I can’t feel. That is despair for me. The way ice cream numbs your head is the freezing sensation of my soul. It’s unbearable.
Monica
death is known, we like it because it changes us, nobody likes it because it makes them afraid of us, we don’t really like death or what it does, but it knows that we should like it because it humbles us.
sagirl
I don’t really understand what this prompt is about. Am I supposed to write a story about despair or am I supposed to just write about the word itself? The definition? How it relates to my day? Maybe I could do this excersize to find out more about Yaz and how she thinks about certain things. God my mind never goes off my characters.
Chloe June
the feeling of terrible displeasure, often when coming down after a big night, or when you miss the opportunity to be with the love of you life….hell is not a place you go if your not a christian, its the failing of your lifes greatest ambition- immortal technique
harrison Downing
Despair is a sad and lonely condition. When you have no hope, are feeling desperate, sad and hopeless, you are in despair. The conotation of the word despair is, to me, very negative. It evokes lonliness and fear.
Professor Bone
I feel despair and pain just like anyone else. I despair over work, money, school, and life. I’ve never despaired over romance before which is good. It makes me feel good to know that is some place I’ve never hurt before…. my heart.
im in a state of utter despair as i think of my future and what lies there i mean i dont really have worries about whats gonna happen, just how im gonna get there. where do i want to go to college?? and what do i want to major in?? choices, choices. i hate making choices…i hate the thought that ill make the wrong one and regret it for the rest of my life. i hate the thought of regret. im just scared. i graduate in a few days, and i dont wanna leave, and im just in a state of utter despair :(
rebecca
I don’t really enjoy thinking about despair. Funny; because that’s exactly what despair makes you do–think. Maybe even think too much about things that should be let go of. Perhaps though, it resurfaces memories before they are eternally lost.
Allie
I lay on my bed and stared at the ceiling. All I wanted was the truth and some help. I had always been there for them. And when it was their turn to return the favor, they disappeared. Because the idea of me having issues was unfathomable. I hid my emotions, and that’s what they loved about me. To them, I was a listening box who spat out advice, only in the comforting form of a human girl.
I looked out the window despairing of ever seeing the sun again. The clouds so closely paralleled my mood it seemed there was no escape. With everything gone, how could the sun dare to peek through? How could I ever hope to smile?
Despair is a very dark thing. It has no eyes, and it has only one ear, through which it hears your cries. It lives in a corner, in the recesses of your mind. It tastes like the heel of your shoe.
despair. the lonliest feeling in the world. what is it that makes you feel as though your soul is falling out beneath you and nothing in the world can fix what is happening inside of you? Its too dark and empty to be considered pain, yet pain would be a welcome release from the endlessness of this mind.
Katy
Just a word. I never liked words to describe feelings, they can never quite do it justice. I’m not particularly moved by this word anyway. It brings images fo fake people having fake feelings in their fake lives. I don’t understand people…
the state of my mind..the cause of my tears…day after day of what seems like an continuous act of let downs and heartbreaks smothered in unbreathable humidity.
Johnetta Borum
There was nothing I could do. The body lay there slowly dripping onto the floor. I could not imagine these people I lived with killing each other. We were a family amongst the stars. I tried not to see their faces. No way to make up for this.
Susie
The feeling when you don’t know what to think. There’s nothing good in front of you, nothing to look forward to. An oppurtunity lost, something you’ll never get back again. Wanting to go somewhere or do something but not being able to.
Alex
It’s not a very good word…. well, not the word I suppose. The connotation. (Obviously.) It sounds like “desperate for air”. Despair. Huh.
melissa
it’s so deep and dangerous. it’s calling you at all times, refusing your pleas. It’s a dungeon. I can’t get out. We’re stuck in this dreaded place.
brie
Fucking Despair. You know what despair is? When you’ve worked your ass off in the fields, or in the the class room. When you’ve spent ages perfecting that manucript of yours only to have it taken away and ripped apart. Despair is how you feel when you’ve failed or your lost in the dumps.
God
a total saddness that over comes you and takes over everything you do. you just cannot help but think about the saddness. You become the saddness… There is nothing you can do…
Amelia
The darkest feeling. You awake to the smell of stagnant water and the metallic taste of your own blood. Chunks of your hair lay somewhere in front of your face, which is planted to the wet ground.
Andy
Despair. The aching loneliness of nothing. The horrible feeling of being alone. There is nothing. There is no one. You are alone and there is nothing you can do about it. This is despair. It is feeling that you are alone in the world, that you have nothing to live for, no one to turn to. It is the crushing feeling of utter hopelessness. It is the awful feeling of nothing left. Despair.
AH
That’s kind of how I’m feeling right now. Despair. I don’t feel good enough in so many things. And I just found out one of my mentor kids had something go on that wasn’t appropriate. It’s not about me. It’s about being good enough to help my kids. But they are so broken, how do I help them? How do I pick them up from their heartache? I know it’s about love. It’s about spending time (that I don’t have) with them and showing them God, instead of trying to be God. It still hurts. But I think it always will.
Meghan Fitzmartin
Deepest deepest despair.
alive, i earn. dead, i have a price tag.
dead – i am fixed, but i am not here to care
i do not care
Despair? I do not despair. Hope, yes, but despair? Despair is a cruel, cruel replacement for lost hope. So hope, still, friends, dare not despair. I am a first person witness that hope takes you everywhere- despair only holds you back.
i despaired when i saw the first word I would write about on one word: despair. No. I’ve already had a low mood day. The last thing I need, I thought immediately, was another downer word.
What else could despair morph into? des pair. Something in French. Plural pairs.
Despair is only drama, in a time and place where we have everything and really don’t know what it is like to go without.
The feeling you get when your waiting for water to boil and you realize that its become common place to cook for one and you don’t see that changing any time soon. How you feel when your walking on a beautiful sunny day and as your dress swirls around your ankles, it utterly perfect until you begin to notice every single person out that day has someone to smile at and talk with and you have never felt so completely alone. Then you slow your walk. You stop on the hard sidewalk and still the day is sunny and perfect but you can’t help but feel smothered by the heat and the open clear air. Until you take a last deep breath of self pity, push the despair and worry and doubt away, force a smile out of your eyes until you can convince yourself that everything is okay and even if it isn’t it will be soon.
Despair in this pear that this pair did pare.
The windows clinked nicely, but sadly, it wasn’t nice. A cold wind blew through the room, shaking the normalcy more than anyone could ever know. And what did I do? Nothing. I sat in the despair and rolled in it and cried. I suppose that that’s considered doing something.
being completely hopeless. thinking that everything goes wrong. giving up.
Everything i knew, everything i was, was a lie. I couldn’t believe i let it go so far. I was angry, you know? Angry at myself. But now i know i’ve lost you. I’ve lost you and you’ll never come back to me. I’m so sorry for what i did.
sadness lonley i ahte it it sucks i never wanna feel it it makes me wanna go cry in a bal. despair isnt needed in a life. yes sometimes it happens but you dont need it to make yourself complete. happiness is needed. not despair. who wants to be sad? crying death lies friendships. bad ones at least. all suckish. life it a struggle and u have to live with it. good or bad. despair sucks
love and desair are so interrealted! why you may ask? becuase they both deal with your heart one breaks it and the other helps it. i know that despair can be deadly to some and eye opening for others but with both love and despair the common theme is that it is different for everyone
The dark hole swallowed me. I flung my arms out, trying to find something to grab on to, but air rushed through my fingers. There was nothing to hold on to. Nothing to catch me. I cried out, No, I screamed.
Black. Dark. Night. Falling. Dropping. Alone. Dreadful. No hope. Liar. Cheater. Stealer of hearts. Lack of love. Void. Trouble. Space. Fear. Phobia.
She cried and cried. She couldn’t stop. She held the desperate, bleeding fish in her bloodied hands and wished she could do something. She couldn’t. She could feel the fish’s last bits of life blood fading and she felt so powerless and overcome with despair that it was all she could do to lay the Fish in the water and let it die in whatever peace there was left in its gory, bloody death.
There is no point of despair in life. Everything is perfect, even when it’s not. Because when you look back on things, those moments of despair seem quite trivial, don’t they? Look forward in life with no regrets, no despair. Love, peace, and happiness.
pain that floows through my wrist desperate infectious, vial that consumes me, it takes away my being, my soul. it steals my life. i am truly afraid to be alive. it make life unbearable. i know no other feeling but being alone, being scared and afraid. i want to die.
forever,i’ll be alone in my own despair.
It’s despair again? Okay well maybe I can redeem myself from my last entry, which was pretty pathetic. Despair is the abyss I fall into when I let all the little things pile up and fester inside until it explodes out on the people I love. It’s a feeling of helplessness as well as hopelessness. I think the helplessness it the most core element of despair.
I’m alone, I’m falling, I can’t do anything, I’m lost. I’m in pain, the most horrible pain I’ve ever felt. I’m crying, no one hears me. I’m dark, I’m colorless, I can’t feel. That is despair for me. The way ice cream numbs your head is the freezing sensation of my soul. It’s unbearable.
death is known, we like it because it changes us, nobody likes it because it makes them afraid of us, we don’t really like death or what it does, but it knows that we should like it because it humbles us.
I don’t really understand what this prompt is about. Am I supposed to write a story about despair or am I supposed to just write about the word itself? The definition? How it relates to my day? Maybe I could do this excersize to find out more about Yaz and how she thinks about certain things. God my mind never goes off my characters.
the feeling of terrible displeasure, often when coming down after a big night, or when you miss the opportunity to be with the love of you life….hell is not a place you go if your not a christian, its the failing of your lifes greatest ambition- immortal technique
Despair is a sad and lonely condition. When you have no hope, are feeling desperate, sad and hopeless, you are in despair. The conotation of the word despair is, to me, very negative. It evokes lonliness and fear.
I feel despair and pain just like anyone else. I despair over work, money, school, and life. I’ve never despaired over romance before which is good. It makes me feel good to know that is some place I’ve never hurt before…. my heart.
im in a state of utter despair as i think of my future and what lies there i mean i dont really have worries about whats gonna happen, just how im gonna get there. where do i want to go to college?? and what do i want to major in?? choices, choices. i hate making choices…i hate the thought that ill make the wrong one and regret it for the rest of my life. i hate the thought of regret. im just scared. i graduate in a few days, and i dont wanna leave, and im just in a state of utter despair :(
I don’t really enjoy thinking about despair. Funny; because that’s exactly what despair makes you do–think. Maybe even think too much about things that should be let go of. Perhaps though, it resurfaces memories before they are eternally lost.
I lay on my bed and stared at the ceiling. All I wanted was the truth and some help. I had always been there for them. And when it was their turn to return the favor, they disappeared. Because the idea of me having issues was unfathomable. I hid my emotions, and that’s what they loved about me. To them, I was a listening box who spat out advice, only in the comforting form of a human girl.
I looked out the window despairing of ever seeing the sun again. The clouds so closely paralleled my mood it seemed there was no escape. With everything gone, how could the sun dare to peek through? How could I ever hope to smile?
Despair is a very dark thing. It has no eyes, and it has only one ear, through which it hears your cries. It lives in a corner, in the recesses of your mind. It tastes like the heel of your shoe.
despair. the lonliest feeling in the world. what is it that makes you feel as though your soul is falling out beneath you and nothing in the world can fix what is happening inside of you? Its too dark and empty to be considered pain, yet pain would be a welcome release from the endlessness of this mind.
Just a word. I never liked words to describe feelings, they can never quite do it justice. I’m not particularly moved by this word anyway. It brings images fo fake people having fake feelings in their fake lives. I don’t understand people…
the state of my mind..the cause of my tears…day after day of what seems like an continuous act of let downs and heartbreaks smothered in unbreathable humidity.
There was nothing I could do. The body lay there slowly dripping onto the floor. I could not imagine these people I lived with killing each other. We were a family amongst the stars. I tried not to see their faces. No way to make up for this.
The feeling when you don’t know what to think. There’s nothing good in front of you, nothing to look forward to. An oppurtunity lost, something you’ll never get back again. Wanting to go somewhere or do something but not being able to.
It’s not a very good word…. well, not the word I suppose. The connotation. (Obviously.) It sounds like “desperate for air”. Despair. Huh.
it’s so deep and dangerous. it’s calling you at all times, refusing your pleas. It’s a dungeon. I can’t get out. We’re stuck in this dreaded place.
Fucking Despair. You know what despair is? When you’ve worked your ass off in the fields, or in the the class room. When you’ve spent ages perfecting that manucript of yours only to have it taken away and ripped apart. Despair is how you feel when you’ve failed or your lost in the dumps.
a total saddness that over comes you and takes over everything you do. you just cannot help but think about the saddness. You become the saddness… There is nothing you can do…
The darkest feeling. You awake to the smell of stagnant water and the metallic taste of your own blood. Chunks of your hair lay somewhere in front of your face, which is planted to the wet ground.
Despair. The aching loneliness of nothing. The horrible feeling of being alone. There is nothing. There is no one. You are alone and there is nothing you can do about it. This is despair. It is feeling that you are alone in the world, that you have nothing to live for, no one to turn to. It is the crushing feeling of utter hopelessness. It is the awful feeling of nothing left. Despair.
That’s kind of how I’m feeling right now. Despair. I don’t feel good enough in so many things. And I just found out one of my mentor kids had something go on that wasn’t appropriate. It’s not about me. It’s about being good enough to help my kids. But they are so broken, how do I help them? How do I pick them up from their heartache? I know it’s about love. It’s about spending time (that I don’t have) with them and showing them God, instead of trying to be God. It still hurts. But I think it always will.
Deepest deepest despair.
alive, i earn. dead, i have a price tag.
dead – i am fixed, but i am not here to care
i do not care