Madness string 24012

Random mermaid
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

You just need to keep living. Listen to the pain. It's both history teacher and fortune teller. Pain teaches us who we are. Sometimes, it's so bad, we feel like we're dying. But we can't really live 'til we've died a little, can we?