
Its like learning to breathe all over again. Its like remembering how to walk and not trip over yourself. Its like not quite waking and then you struggle to move the air in and out your lungs but the more you try the more that heavy feeling like rocks on your chest, like drowning in dry land, like slipping into a sleep that lasts forever and feels like it. Its like realising your hands are ice cold because you cannot feel anything at all. Its like the shock of biting your own lip suddenly, banging your knee, scraping your knuckles against a rough wall. Wisdom teeth. A splinter. A migraine. Motion sickness and vertigo and looking up ahead because you were stupid enough to look all the way down. Like the agony of being born. Like slowly fading away.