Story archives - tag: "sadness"

She was Annabell

I walked in to my daughters bedroom to wake her up from her nap and saw that she was blue.

tags: SIDS newborn sadness [add]

2010-02-25 08:04:01 / Rating: 126.5 /

Claire

We lost the baby a week after we finished the nursery.

tags: miscarriage death sadness grief [add]

2009-03-25 11:24:32 / Rating: 243 /

A. R.

I still wish I had taken the F instead of the A on the online test I hurried to finish while I could hear my dog dying on the kitchen floor.

tags: dog death test grades regret sadness [add]

2009-02-17 16:10:32 / Rating: 353.5 /

(katie)

The worst part about the rape is the way it's made the rest of my life about that one night.

tags: sadness regret anger rape [add]

2009-02-02 11:52:09 / Rating: 447.5 /

Octo

You know you've had too much sugar when your tears begin to smell like apple pie.

tags: sadness strange apple pie thanksgiving sugar tears [add]

2008-10-15 15:13:41 / Rating: 238.25 /

aaa

Let us hope that the man I saw swerve into a big rig survives to read this sentence.

tags: auto accident truck death injury sadness [add]

2008-10-08 14:36:55 / Rating: 240.25 /

Charlie

When you said I wasn't allowed to say anything at the funeral because it would be "improper," I knew I hated you.

tags: funeral hatred realization sadness [add]

2008-10-07 16:51:41 / Rating: 251 /

Thomas

As I held my son back while he was screaming at his dead mother, I had the strangest feeling I had seen this exact scene in a movie.

tags: sadness horror death movies [add]

2008-07-14 12:41:32 / Rating: 369.75 /

sydney

And after I confessed my love for him, he stated that he was flattered and we changed the subject.

tags: love sadness rejection [add]

2008-06-27 15:22:20 / Rating: 411.25 /

Kindergarden attempts

At six-years-old my friends passed around a discarded, lit cigarette smoking it perfectly while I couldn't take a drag properly no matter how hard I tried.

tags: childhood cigarettes friends failure shame struggle sadness [add]

2008-05-01 14:28:28 / Rating: 284.75 /

overrock

Only then did I realize how much I had when she told her daughter they lost everything in the fire.

tags: fire lost realization sadness [add]

2008-04-15 10:15:26 / Rating: 255.75 /

stormi

I cried not because of the amount of the inheritance, but because I can't cash it in to bring her back.

tags: death sadness grieving [add]

2008-01-22 18:11:42 / Rating: 330 /

cetacean

The nine year old said he had moved on from his best friend, who was killed by a falling branch a year ago, but as he stared at the spot where he died, I knew he hadn't.

tags: childhood death sadness moving on [add]

2007-12-19 11:11:39 / Rating: 406.25 /

Astral

I will never live in a world as bright and beautiful and alive as I did when I was six.

tags: childhood loss memory sadness growing up [add]

2007-12-03 15:15:43 / Rating: 470.25 /

La Fille Italiano

The fact that I continued running past him for five miles is more symbolic to me than the fact that I started bawling the moment I was in the confines of my home.

tags: running freedom old boyfriends sadness triumph [add]

2007-10-25 13:29:43 / Rating: 321.75 /

Gaby

When I called my friend after her husband died, I didn't think that she would end up consoling me.

tags: death love friendship sadness empathy [add]

2007-09-21 15:19:24 / Rating: 337.5 /

Greatsco

She looked up from her toy and said, "Daddy, why do you get so angry?"

tags: anger sadness children [add]

2007-06-21 10:33:04 / Rating: 359.25 /

college snapshot

Today I threw out the leftovers from the last time we hung out and it is taking all I have not to put them back in the fridge, so that I can pretend he never left.

tags: goodbye leftovers sadness [add]

2007-06-21 09:35:21 / Rating: 293.25 /

Chris

I will always regret not being by the side of my 9 year old brother, my best friend, the day he died of Leukemia.

tags: childhood regret sadness death [add]

2007-06-05 17:13:52 / Rating: 380.25 /

XT_Momma

I wouldn't have been such a bitch if I had known I would never see you again.

tags: regret sadness loss [add]

2007-05-31 14:50:19 / Rating: 348 /

XT_Momma

After that horrible accident, my mom was on a ventilator and I was the only one who could understand that she was asking to die.

tags: trauma sadness accident hospital [add]

2007-05-29 15:58:45 / Rating: 393.5 /

Amarie

As I sat numbly answering the phone, i realized how unfair it is that something you have absolutely no control over can make you so miserable you don't enjoy anything anymore.

tags: sadness work [add]

2007-01-19 09:30:10 / Rating: 282.75 /

Jeremy

When they handed me a medal for saving a man in Afghanistan, all I could think about was how I wasn't able to save the other two.

tags: war sadness death [add]

2006-10-11 11:14:53 / Rating: 577.25 /

Joke of a Romantic

As he was telling me over the phone that he didn't know me I came to the sinking realization that I couldn't live without him anymore.

tags: sadness love romance unrequited love disappointment [add]

2006-09-27 13:43:46 / Rating: 419 /

Rob Sanderson

I sat there that night and realized that all my life I’ve been trying to eliminate the things that cause me to get depressed, instead of the depression itself.

tags: depression sad sadness realization change [add]

2006-09-14 07:14:25 / Rating: 552.25 /