Andrea Gibson - The Day You Died Because You Wanted To
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“Imagine choosing nothing at all. Imagine something hurting that bad.”
“But you don’t loose a person like a set of keys because you don’t find them again and you can still get to where you’re going.”
Those lines hit hard
Those were the lines I'd have picked out as well. Hit goddam hard...
My girlfriend died by suicide on August 14th of this year, just 2 weeks after we came back from an Italy vacation and just 11 days before our 2 year anniversary. Valentine's day will be 6 months since she's left and this poem and "The Nutritionist" have both brought bittersweet memories back and tears to my eyes. I don't know you Andrea Gibson but you're a wonderful poet.
I'll always Love You Tarna Wood
Yassin Alzahn the pain you must be feeling, the gravity of that loss is so profound and i’m sending all my strength to you tonight if you feel you need it. from someone with a chronic illness who periodically thinks about how i just want to be free from pain... i struggle with things and today was a very bad day but i hope you are having an okay day today. one day at a time?
I lost my son to suicide on Nov 16th. He was in so much pain. Sending love and light from Denver ♥️
You're a strong man, that's admirable. Stay strong.
Keeping you and your girlfriend in my thoughts and prayers. Wishing you happiness and peace of mind in these tough times. God bless.
@@sallymaes73 praying for you, him, and your family. Stay strong ❤️
"what i want most is to live the rest of my life desperately wanting to live it, I want to give that to you. I want it to find you in the nothing at all and I want it to be something" in tears
Maaaan I'm addicted I wish I had access to a crowd I have so many spoken words 😩 this is amazing 💯
@@WeedHeadHaze10 how do you not have access to a crowd? Make videos, share them. Go to a park, a town event, or just step outside your door and share your gift of words, people will likely listen. 💜🌺💜
The something so kind about respecting someone’s decision
“Your sister thought the hearse was a limousine until she asked where it was going, and then she knew for sure that’s what a word like ‘heaven’ will do; but heaven, that wasn’t what you were aiming for... You didn’t think the other side would be better, you thought the other side would be nothing at all. Imagine choosing nothing at all. Imagine something hurting that bad.” 💔
vlcxm i read this as it said it
🖤
Ezmera Thomas I’m 100% sure I quoted it correctly. The line “The hearse was...” is in complete context with the poem, and if you allow yourself to process that line with “The hearse” it might bring you to a deeper level of understanding this poem.
Sometimes I feel so alone, and then Andrea talks and expresses everything that I struggle to put into words. Honestly, Andrea if you see this, you are my greatest inspiration and biggest comfort
"Imagine something hurting THAT bad"
On the 18th anniversary of my father’s suicide, today, I find this poem so comforting. Thank you Andrea. You are a wonderful poet
Honestly, its nice to see someone talk about suicide with such empathy. Its real too, I dont belive there is anything on the other side, and didn't belive so when wanted to die, it was just the pain.
I need poems like this sometimes. A reminder to not be the one that got away and left everyone behind. Thank you.
If you can find the quote, “I don’t want to die. I just want relief.” I got inspiration from that and also thought, “I just want to find relief in the breath I breathe.” 🤗❤️🤗
If you see this see it as a sign and reminder. You. Do. Matter. There. Is. Hope.
No matter the pain and suffering no matter what happens everything is going to be okay. Sending all love and hugs. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
"Imagine choosing nothing at all. Imagine something hurting that bad"
My son lost his battle with depression November 16, 2019, just three weeks shy of his 28th birthday. I vowed shorty after he died to live my very best life for him. The one thing that smashes my heart into pieces is how lonely and broken he was when he made the hardest choice of his short life. My heart aches for him everyday but I acknowledge that pain and recognize it as pure love.
Sarah Lieberenz I’m so sorry you’ve had to experience the pain of losing a child, especially in the way that you did. My heart goes out to you. Stay strong.
I am sorry about your son.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
I'm sorry for your loss and I know your son is proud of you ❤️
The pain you must feel when you think about that must be so fing soul shattering I can not even imagine what you must do to prevent that thought from coming in to your head. Im so sorry that you’ve lost your son in person. I hope you are so tightly connected at the soul ♥️♥️♥️ it’s been a long time since you commented and I hope you are finding some comfort sometimes. Im so sad for you ♥️♥️♥️
I LOVE ANDREA GIBSON WITH MY ENTIRE BEING
My best friend in the world was the first person I ever opened up to. It’s true what they say about people who hurt the most being the best listeners. She killed herself last year and I haven’t been able to feel ok since
Kathy 24601 I’m so sorry 😔
So sorry for your loss, stay strong x
Andrea doesn't make poetry. Andrea is poetry!
wow. this is amazing; you can really hear the emotion in every word as they speak it.
Takes a whole lot of strength to get through this poem without breaking. Sending lots of love your way Andrea ❤❤❤
“I didn’t still have the ring you’d given me, I crushed it with a rock to see how much you loved me. I loved you to pieces too💔”
Friendly reminder that andrea uses they/them pronouns ♥️
@@Sparecandle friendly reminder that being misgendered is painful, and using the correct pronouns is not fucking hard, and forgetting is not an excuse. Intention vs. impact… the latter is what reverberates. Do better.
“Who, with a heart, can stomach how much we can stomach?”
So much emotion.. the music balances it out so well ...I love it ..its like she's taking the stucked feelings inside of me and make it come alive .
Cassandra Bresley Andrea Gibson’s pronouns are they/them just wanted let u know
@@janaherkle905 hi Jana Herkle ... I feel connected to it ... as in the "them /they" would be "I" (if that makes sense to you)
Oh god. As someone who has been so, so suicidal recently, this made me cry. Because I don't know if I'll ever be happy, and I doubt it, but I love my friends and family to pieces and I'm not so blind that I don't know how utterly I will break them if I leave. I may not deserve happiness but they do.
everyone deserves happiness, i believe that with everything i have
^ I believe it too. And I also know it’s hard to believe it about yourself. But if you believe it about someone else, someone else believes it about you.
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” -Rilke, “Go to the Limits of Your Longing” from Book of Hours.
Phenomenal. 💯
Heard about this through an episode of "The Skin Deep". Then RUclips recommended it to me. No regrets 💜
UGGGGGGFFFHHHHHHHH THEIR POEMS ARW ALWAYS MAKING ME ACHE
Recently wrote a poem that was my own suicide note and immediately after this came into my mind and I realized I couldn't leave behind the people I love yet ❤️
Fuck I made it almost a whole day without crying. One hour and 5 minutes to go, I let Andrea remind me to stay, once again, and I'm grateful. And I'm crying.
I love them so much.
My brother died by suicide 2 months ago. He was 15. We knew he was depressed but we never knew it was that bad, or that he was suicidal. He was just a kid. He barely got to live his life before he ended it.
🦋 Love is the answer to everything. Love can break through, soften your heart and watch
This hit in a place that I can’t quite express
“You thought the other side would be nothing at all. Imagine choosing nothing at all. Imagine something hurting that bad...”
Omg I’m crying 🥺
I just lost my father in Feb right before his birthday. We had no warning signs, I wish I could tell him I love him.
I want to get lines from this poem tattooed on me, so badly.
I'm sitting in a car, crying my eyes out. I have longed for "nothing" so many times. Too many. I wish I could find the desire to want to live happily.
Fuck man, getting through one of her pieces without being brought to tears is nearly impossible.
I lost my husband to suicide in May. Tomorrow would have been our eleven year wedding anniversary. I don’t know how, but I know that somehow, somewhere on the space-time continuum, he sent me to these words today. 🖤
sorry for your lost, hope you okay !
That hurt like medicine
Remarkable.
Every time I read one of Andreas poems, I think it can’t have more emotion, and then I hear them perform it
After just losing a friend to suicide I needed this
lucy webster sending well wishes to you though that’s hardly comforting in the face of a loss like that. i wish i could do more. i hope you are able to find the courage and love to see the next days weeks months through. 💗
Laura Christine thank you lovely 💕 I know she’s free now. It just doesn’t make it easy
my mother committed suicide in 2018. I am still stuck there.
I wont let anyone say it was a shallow thing you did.
i miss you A
"Imagine choosing nothing at all"
This is so fucking beautiful
what are andreas pronouns? i love their work😍💖
They go by they/them. I love their work too!
You dont lose a person like a set of keys coz you dont find them again
Andrea is amazing. They remind me that I can still cry when I need it the most
they make my heart feel so many things at the same time 🥺
some folks nail it. "nothing at all". That is why we are grim. the massive void. thank you. (I felt your heart break , it gives me pause, thank you)
.."there is life down below me though... kids are walking home from school"
I lost my baby brother on September 16, 2018 to suicide, he was 31 years old.
I know what its like to hurt that bad and i am so close being done. I am the set of keys.
🫶 I hope you are still here
Who’s feeling this
I have a friend. She is under 18. She has attempted suicide many times. She cuts,then laughs. She likes the pain. She wants to escape,but we both know she will never truly escape by this passage. Her blood turns to my tears running down my face as i would say "stop". But she likes the blood. She likes the pain. The one thing she doesnt like is living.- this is because of the ppl around her. So i have one final message- Be kind!...
Hearing this a single tear slipped down my cheek but it was a tear filled with love and pain...
😆 um right..... I really don't know but go 145° degrees to da left N then 45° diagonally......SMILE......they will guide you......
Shit this is damn good. And I usually have more descriptive words than swearing.
Tears... sublime... thanks for give us your poetry, your heart, your pain, your beauty.
Incredible the way they can put words together in a way that honors someone's chosen death. Gives me comfort for those I've lost. And for past me who wanted nothing at all instead of this life. Ty.
heartbreaking but so beautiful 😭
Andrea Gibson- I feel I should have to do nothing more than say your name- but it is not like that is it? So I will implore you to stay with us for a while, and to say to you that since a dear friend enlightened me to your work I have been slowly, unsteadily recovering from the life I don't want to live anymore. You do great good. Please stay for a while- I do not know how to grow plants as my Mother did, but I know how to grow thoughts as she did. You help both buffer and buttress those thoughts so that they grow into healthy and possibly happy things. You are so beautiful to us all and your words hit so hard that the very first time I heard you I bought a stethoscope the next day, hungover and bleeding a bit. Stay with us dear one, the world is better with you in it.
thank you for this, this is beautiful!
one of my fave poets....
beautiful
Anyone else sobbing?
Aw man I just finished reading lord of the butterflies and goddamn
I don’t have words. Absolutely beautiful ♥️
That hit different...I felt that
It's poems like these that remind you how beautiful poetry is
Andrea's poems damn they hit my heart i could listen to her poetry all day 😍😍😍😭😭😭
She makes me proud to be human
'Here, here is where the pain is'
GEEZ I LOVE ANDREA BUT THIS IS GOLD AND I LOVE IT
Gosh I love Andrea...
was "when the bough breaks" deleted off of this channel?
I needed this. Thank you so very much.
all time favoriteeeeee
I said the day I died cause I wanted to die
These chills are going to be the death of me
Wow, this truly hit home.
Been sorta blankfaced and empty for a while and this poem was really needed and actually made me feel something
i hear you , just know
This is a beautiful poem and it choked me up the first time ❤️
Holy fuck. Wow. Beautiful, Andrea.
R.I.P. Peter, I love and miss you more than you would have ever believed
I’ve never clicked so quickly on a video 😭
I love andrea gibson
Their poem the nutritionists is masterpiece as this
*their
@@pearkore6821 omgg im sorry. Im gonna edit my comment.
All in tears😭
Breathtaking.
Wow! Just wow!
beautiful. :)
Omg- this woman is so unbelievably amazingly well able to capture such profound moments and huge traumas and deep and complex feelings in a way that I’ve never heard anyone do before. I have cried while listening to every single one I’ve heard so far -
Wow. And what a brave brave soul she is - it astounds me - the courage to share these things and to go on living in the midst of such loss and great despair. Wow
Andrea Gibson’s pronouns are they/them just wanted let u know. I agree, amazing poems and such feeling in every word.
Damn.
WOW
Gibson a 🐐. Thank you !
BEAUTIFUL... 😢
This hurt so much
Tears..
Wow
Thank you