I have been writing in a journal on an almost-daily basis since I was 17 years old. This is a record of me going through each entry from the beginning, and commenting on the me from fifteen years ago.

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Some of us are dying to get older.

Some are dying to remain youthful.

I’m the one who died to stay young.

Back to my suicidal thoughts, I see. I think I had seen the movie The Doors, and had become convinced that, like rock stars, the key to immortality was death at an early age. Unfortunately, what I hadn’t grasped was that to achieve that immortality, you needed to actually accomplish something first.