YouthInRetrospect

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Birthday: March 16

Location: In my own little world.

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Oh, retrospect; 'tis a curse we can't prevent. « «

I am not an interesting person in any way. I am just a simple yet complicated sixteen-year-old kid, born in New York City and raised in Chicago, trying to find his place in this world. I'm also the soppiest person you'll ever know. Not kidding. If I fall in love with you, you're incredibly unlucky.
m not new to Witty - I was a member in 2009-2010 but I left due to personal issues, and now I'm back on a new account. Fresh start, you know?

Watch me document my wasted youth.

(+) Reading, the smell of books, rain, music, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, snuggies, cats, tattoos, piercings, Alaska Young, fall and winter, Harry Potter, guitars, pianos, tea, chocolate, photography, stars, The Big Bang Theory, cities, nature, Friends (yes, the TV show), concerts, Doctor Who, movies, Sherlock, all the little things in life.

Just to clear things up -
I only follow people who's quotes I really like; if you ask me to follow back, I won't
and no, my profile picture is not me.

YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
May 18, 2013 12:20pm UTC

If you glamorize self-harm, low self-esteem and anxienty and act
like they're something to be desired in the person you're in a
relationship with to make it look 'cute',
congratulations you are an a.sshole goodbye (◕‿◕✿)

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
April 2, 2013 12:27pm UTC

Hey, uh, a little word of advice:
If you think you're overweight, sitting on a computer and moaning about it isn't going to help you at all. Try getting out and making a change yourself.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
April 1, 2013 3:27pm UTC

It hurts
to think
of all the miles
between us
It hurts
to think
of all the miles
we can’t cross
It hurts to think and it
hurts to breathe and
most of all it
hurts to feel
at all
It hurts, but then
so do a lot of things.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 29, 2013 8:59pm UTC

Aw, it's so cute when you log onto Facebook to see 3 different people stealing your writing, claiming that they wrote it themselves.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 28, 2013 9:12pm UTC

There's only one person in the world that I feel completely comfortable talking to, that knows almost everything about me, and can keep up a conversation with me.
Shame she lives about 1,740 miles away.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 28, 2013 4:18pm UTC

Your eyes.
I could get lost
in them,
so easily.
The way they just
seem to stare
into my soul.
It's quite frightening actually,
to think I could get so lost
that in fact, I may
never find my way
back to reality.
But the thing is,
I don't think I would mind
being lost with you.
- k.h.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 28, 2013 4:00pm UTC

it's kinda stupid, that i'm
too afraid of pain to stay alive
but too afraid of pain to die.
too afraid of the harsh rope
and crippling fear
as i realize
i can't breathe
too afraid of stinging pain
watching the blood wash
down the drain
too afraid of the spasms
and pain inside
that pills meant for numbing
can make you feel
too afraid of the bang of the gun
and the splatter of my blood
as i see only darkness
too afraid of the wind
and deep-rooted stomach clench
that comes with falling
as the pavement tries to catch me
too afraid
too afraid
too afraid.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 26, 2013 3:59pm UTC

If you were the sun,
I'd spend my whole life chasing the horizon.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 26, 2013 3:43pm UTC

I'm gonna change you like a remix,
and i'll raise you like a phoenix.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 26, 2013 3:20pm UTC

It sucks how I'm so lazy and unmotivated at my young age.
I need to stop procrastinating. Go places I've never been to before.
Do things I've never dreamed of doing. Get over my social anxiety.
Stop being a 'wallflower'. Learn to enjoy my life while I still can.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 26, 2013 2:51pm UTC

Mosquito Bites
(This was written a while ago,
it was just hard for me to share.
Sorry that it's so long.
~ Don't read it if you're easily triggered, thank you)
They’re like mosquito bites,
The silent insults and comments that have been thrown my way
since the 3rd grade.
Mosquito bites that have gotten so deep, so bad,
that I’ve wanted to die from the pain they caused.
I was 9 years old.
I was 9 years barely knowing what it feels like to care for somebody,
9 years barely knowing that there’s other people out there
other than the 27 naive souls in that one well-lit classroom.
I was barely 9 years and I knew all too well what it felt like to die on the inside.
But I stopped myself,
from trying on that braided rope necklace that was to be tied to a post
that might as well have been death’s finger;
And I became content
with scratching and itching,
until the bites burned red
with the self anger I put into them.
I clawed at them until they bled,
and red goo that smelled of copper and death
stained my skin.
I covered them with band aids,
but I knew and I could feel that they were there,
their poison seeping into my systems,
shutting everything down,
eating me from the inside out,
and banishing me to a place of darkness.
The silent insults fogged my vision,
The comments made me choke on my own thoughts,
and they all kept me anchored to the slick oily ground,
stopped me from pulling myself together
and up out of my stupor.
On the outside I was a machine,
smiling and acting out lies,
the bites growing under the surface;
Never noticeable,
but more of their kind kept coming.
“There’s always someone who has it worse than you,”
“Your problems are invalid,”
“We don’t want to play with you,”
“Can you go away? We’re playing a game.”
Haha. Yeah right.
I knew what they wanted to say:
“Hey Tyler, we’re making up lies about you,
but we’re decent enough to lie about lying about you.”
They dropped bombs onto my skin,
The ones that I trusted the most,
Trusted with the cogs that made me move,
trusted with keeping safe the batteries that kept me alive.
I trusted them,
and they shot rockets labelled “Useless”, “Liar”, “Fat”, etc at my chest Made blows so deep they left permanent craters in my heart.
I tripped and fell over,
Tried to crawl out of the holes
and I became tired.
Tired of trusting anybody with my parts,
tired of letting anybody peer inside that glass cabinet on my back,
didn’t let anybody see if anything could be fixed;
Had to be fixed.
I became so tired that I just lay there.
There were light rays above me,
but I couldn’t reach them,
wouldn’t.
I didn’t trust them because it meant becoming exposed,
getting bit and burned,
then slipping deeper.
Slipping deeper,
Into a place harder to crawl out of,
Unscarred.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 26, 2013 2:09pm UTC

You can tell me that there's nobody else,
(( but I feel it ))
You can tell me that you're home by yourself,
(( but I see it ))
You can look into my eyes and pretend all you want,
(( but I know, I know ))
Your love is just a lie.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 26, 2013 1:56pm UTC

It's quite extraordinary, isn't it?
How well you can
actually know someone.
I don't just mean
their personality,
the things they like,
or what eye color they have.
But knowing every inch
of their body like
the back of your hand,
every imperfection,
all the freckles they have
on their cheeks,
or the way you just seem to know
when they are happy or sad.
I think it's remarkable,
that you just know all of these things
without even trying
to figure that person out.
- k.h.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 25, 2013 5:14pm UTC

One of these days
I'm going to run out of ways
to describe how beautiful
you are
to me.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 25, 2013 4:13pm UTC

I see the words
you surround yourself with.
You put poems
on your wall;
your door is covered
with song lyrics
and quotes.
the words you love
almost define you
better than the words
that come out
of your mouth.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 25, 2013 4:01pm UTC

I'm not scared of dying.
I'm afraid of growing old
with no reason to live.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 25, 2013 3:57pm UTC

i write my thoughts down in a little black book
so they can't eat me up.
it keeps the demons at bay.
a lot of these are about you
and they're not meant for anyone's eyes
but mine.
yet when i'm sitting next to you
with the book in front of me
i wish you would ask,
'can i read that?'
because this is the only way
you'll ever know.
i would let you read it.
but you never ask,
so i never do
and the thoughts remain unspoken
again.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 25, 2013 3:39pm UTC

Listen to the whispers of your heart.
Listen to the voices
of trickery
and treason.
Listen to the voices
of harmony
and peace.
Decipher the whispers,
be them simple,
or baffling.
Be them loving
or heartbreaking.
These whispers tell you.
They foreshadow the painful truth
with lies of pleasantry and promise.
The whispers tempt you to fall
or to stray afar.
Listen to the whispers.
Listen wisely
or foolishly.
There is no escape from the whispers.

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 25, 2013 2:51pm UTC

i went to bed
wanting to hold you
and i woke up
wanting to kiss you
so i made my breakfast
and all i thought about was
how i wanted to make it
with you
while i was in the shower
i was thinking about
wanting to kiss you
and hold you
and to wash that one spot
in between your shoulder blades
that you always struggled
to reach
and so when i got out
of my shower
(that probably lasted
a bit too long)
i collapsed into my bed
and i thought about
you

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YouthInRetrospect
posted a quote
March 25, 2013 2:28pm UTC

you tell me how
you feel like dying
and how
you're not happy
with the way your
life is going.
and i wish
i could tell you
exactly how
i love the way
you look
and i love the way
you talk.
(i could listen to you
for hours)
and i'd kiss
exactly all of the spots
that you think
don't deserve the love
i'm willing to show them.
and when you ask
"why?"
i'll have but one answer.
"why not?"

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