morose

There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart,I didn't know why. By the time I made my mind that it was impossible for meto do, there alighted the fear, haunting me with the words that rangconstantly in my head, "You're not brave enough".I didn't feel devastated, I felt the urge to be devastated.

Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...

So avoid using the word __ery_ because it__ lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don__ use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won__ do in your essays.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else__ opinion that we do not look happy.

I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.