Neil Hilborn - This Is Not the End of the World 

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"i'm not saying you find the meaning of life in other people. i'm saying other people are the life to which you provide the meaning" wow, this is something i need to remind myself everyday.

"This Is Not the End of the World” (transcript) I’ve been hearing that the world is ending I’ve heard it so much this days that I can either completely ignore it or never leave my house again that is if I actually left my house for things that don't directly enable me to keep my house see I’ve been thinking about driving nowhere I’ve been thinking about becoming a box inside a locked room inside a dark house at the dark end of the street I want to go away until I'm gone it take so much less energy to not exist than it does to exist and get burned I’ve been burned so much I am not me anymore I’m a stupid poppet version of me I got strings that lead to nowhere nothing is pulling on me I wish someone would drag my hand out of hiding and sign my name on the dotted line there are days when I can’t find the sun even though it’s right outside my window when getting out of bed feels like the key in the doomsdays machine so on those days this is what I tell myself whatever you are feeling right now there’s a mathematical certainty that someone else is feeling that exact thing this is not to say you aren't special this is to say thank God you aren't special I too have kissed no one good night I’ve launched myself from tall places and hoped no one would catch me I’ve ended relationships because suddenly I was also exposed but isolation is not safety It’s death If no one knows you are alive you aren't if a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it it does make a sound but then that sound is gone I am not saying you’ll find the meaning of life in other people I’m saying other people are the life to which you provide the meaning see (we are) wrong when we say I think therefore I am the more we say it the more it sounds like I think therefore I will be you can’t think your way into a full table you can’t think and makes walls and a roof appear around you I have thought and thought myself in a corners made of words and nightmares and what has it gotten me but more thoughts a currency that only buys more currency so please if you wanna continue existing do something learn to make clouds using only your breath build a house even if every wall leans to the left love it anyway just like a season just like a child love how you hate yourself sometimes because at least there’s still something to hate I know how easy it can be to think and keep thinking until you are the last person left on Earth until the entire world becomes no larger than the space between your bed and the light switch but I hear the world’s ending soon when we go and we’re all gonna go I will be part of it -Neil Hilborn Holy cow! Thanks for the likes guys!!

“Whatever you’re feeling right now, there is a mathematical certainty that someone else is feeling that exact thing, this is not to say you aren’t special, this is to say thank god you aren’t special”💜

His voice speaks with such strength and conviction. He gives a voice to those of us who, though we all have one, may have fear to use it, but may not know how. He makes me nod a lot during his poems and go..."THAT'S *ME*. HE GETS ME!"

This hits so close to home for me. I have always been an over thinker and have thought way too much over the smallest things and worried myself into not doing anything, but I have to remind myself that thinking never accomplished anything. Yeah, it’s good to think things over, but you eventually have to do said things, or else everything you thought will be meaningless.

This poem is Here and Away in his book and by god it is the best poem he has ever written. ❤️

I watch this at least 2-3x a day. Every word rings true. I love everything about this.

So thankful for this art

So much love. 💕

He writes beautifully 🌸🌸

I've seriously watched this over 50 times and everytime it hits me hard

thank you. just thank you so much

Neil is so gifted, I love the inspiration and passion he speaks with while sharing his poetry

Oh God, I can't breathe...

Neil you're so inspirational. You have a profound impact on me and I'm sure millions others

Me crying watching this.

Wow.... Thank you

This one reminds me so much of Shane Koyczan, I love them both so much.

i'm not crying you are!

"Isolation is not safety, it's death" wow that hit me pretty hard

Wow. Spot on. Inspirational, because its so so true.

''I hear the world's ending soon, when we go and we are all going to go. I will be part of it.'' the way he says it...

This is amazing, truly ❤️

Oh, I've been waiting for him to perform this poem. It has been my favourite since I got the book!

I’m learning this whole poem😌

God I literally love him so much

i freaking love this poem and neil omg thats my favoritve poem in the world

God, I love this one. Glad that it made to Button Poetry. ❤

And when we go, and we're all gonna go, i want to be part of it Damn.

"Love until you hate yourself sometimes because at least there's still something to hate."

His heavy breaths are so iconic idc

damn... i fuck with this heavy

2021❤

Others are what makes the life in which you find meaning (ingor me please)

"There are days when I can't even find the sun, when it's right outside my window"

The gasping made my heartbreak...

WHEN YOURE FALLING IN A FOREST AND THERES NOBODY AROUND DO YOU EVER REALLY CRASH OR EVEN MAKE A SOUND

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This is not to say you aren't special This is to say, thank god you aren't There lies so much depth in those sentences

"Love how you hate yourself...because at least there is still something to hate." My eyes are leaking.

"Isolation isn't safety its death If no one knows you're alive, you aren't." "Other people are the life to which you provide the meaning"

Hilborn, thank you for speaking for us: the broken, the lost, the isolated, the dying, and the surviving.

The three people who disliked were crying so hard they thought the thumbs down was a thumbs up

"I have thought and thought myself into corners made of words and nightmares and what has it gotten me but MORE thughts." ~I don't think I've ever related to a line in a poem as much as I do to this one.

"If you want to continue existing, do something."

Who else has this poem on his mind during covid 19 and self isolation thing? :(

"Learn to make clouds out of your breath." *Vape nation busts through the door.*

"I've been burned so much I'm not me anymore" THISSSS

NEIL YOURE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE

Beautiful poem. I always listen to Neil when I'm in a bad place. If he ever reads this comment, I want him to know how much he's helped me. Thank you!

"Thank God you aren't special"

This is one of my favourite poems of Neil's book but listening to it instead of reading it is a completely different experience, it has made me shiver

THIS IS THE FASTEST I HAVE EVER CLICKED A NOTIF

"Love how you hate yourself sometimes, because at least there's still something to hate" Fuck.

"There are days when I cant find the sun, even though it's right outside my window" :o

This is actually my favorite poem of all time. There's an old video of it somewhere and it's in his book as "here and away" and I love the piece more than anything. In fact, I've been considering getting a tattoo based on it because of the profound impact this piece has had on my life. Thank you, Neil, for creating this.

“I wanna go away until I’m gone” This just hits me because sometimes I want to not exist. I don’t want to die, more like I wish I had never been even a concept, just never existed

I'm not sure who I'm sending this to, but I'm sending it to someone

This is an older poem that he's done some editing on. It's interesting to watch how the poems grow and change.

I'm a simple boy, I see Neil, I click the instant the notif pops up

I really needed this right now. I isolate myself cause I'm a downer right now, and I don't want to hurt my friends further. Despite them telling me they want to see me, my anxiety convinces me that they're lying and that truly, no one wants to be around me. But... I shouldn't let fear stop me from existing. I'm gonna try. I swear.

Honestly, I'm always coming back to his poems. When I'm bored, when I'm sad, or at night when I'm lonely, like I am now. I always find a way back to his poetry because I guess it's calming to know that you're not alone. He has such an amazing way of capturing feelings and explaining them onto paper. And after every poem I listen to, or read, I think: "this is my favourite one yet". But then I'll find another one and I will love it as much as the first. That continues to do so until I'm calm enough to sleep. So yes, I don't have a favourite poem of you, Neil. But I'm sure that I've found my favourite poet. Thank you for creating such beautiful art, and sharing it with the world (who clearly needs it).

This poem aged painfully during the pandemic

*snaps* quietly in my room, as I watch by myself with watery eyes.

I love Neil's poems, used a bunch of them in a poetry unit in English and the teacher even loved it❤❤❤❤

Neil, your poetry has saved my life.

Don’t mind me, just watching this for the hundredth time

I'm a simple kinda person, I see Neil hilborn I hit like

Me: I’m going to bed early so I’m not exhausted for work tomorrow. Me, at midnight sobbing to Neil again: I guess not

God he is such a magical person. His poetry is so beautiful

Neil puts so much power in his poems, for some it gives that cliche "spoken word poem" sound, but Neil just comes off as genuine every time. Great guy to listen to.

This feels so relevant right now

introvert poem. love this.

"So please, if you want to continue existing, do something." Love this.

I think about the line "this isn't to say you're not special this is to say thank God your not special" a lot. not sure why it sticks in my head but god do I love all his stuff

After being a shut in for three years I have finally been able to get a normal life back. I started to go to uni again, started to simply feel alive again. And this one means so much to me cause I can relate to every freaking sentence. And just knowing I wasn't alone in that Dark place makes me feel so much better, and it isn't because you know that someone else feels the same, but because you are kinda connected through pain. Thanks for this.

*This speech hits harder than a wall of bricks in 2021...*

This aged wonderfully

I revisit this poem time and time again whenever life is at its ugliest. To remind myself I'm still lucky to be a part of it.

I love Neil Hilborn he always seems to say exactly what I'm thinking

"I hear the world is ending soon when we go when we all go I will be apart of it" favorite line

Neil's poetry is so perfect

isolation isn't safety

For whatever its worth, this is one of the few things that has brought me comfort on the worst days. Thank you.

This is so COVID-19 appropriate.

“A currency that can only buy MORE currency” One of my all time favorite lines in poetry, its so multiuseful

On the off chance you ever read these comments, I just want to write one saying thank you, Neil. I'm sorry that I can relate to you, and I truly hope that you are doing well, whatever the standard for that is.

“If you want to continue existing, do something. Love how you have yourself because at least there’s something to hate.”

“Isolation is not safety, it’s death.”

Needed this today.

This really hits different right now

I am to young but I relate to much

"Love how you hate yourself sometimes, because at least there is still something to hate. I know how easy can be to think and keep thinking until you are the last person left on earth - until the entire world becomes no larger than the space between your bed and the light switch. But I hear the world is ending soon. When we go... and we're all gonna go... I will be part of it". It gets me every single time. This poem means a lot to me.

My world has been the distance between my bed and the light switch for two weeks. I’ve watched this 5 times in a row now. I really needed to hear this tonight.

Neil, you probably aren't reading this, but if there's even a remote chance that you are, I'm gonna write it. You don't have idea how many times you've saved my life. This poem saved my life, and it's saving everything around me. Thank you for this, thank you for publishing it, thank you for the courage, thank you. Thanks to you I'm getting out of bed, I'm studying, I'm becoming. I still don't know where I'm heading, but I'm going somewhere and you have helped me a lot.

I heard this a couple of months ago and said to myself "I have to have this tattooed all over my body". Met Neil in Feb., and now I have "love it anyway" tattooed on me in his handwriting.

It's so interesting to see him change over the years

Its funny . Cuz thoughts create reality. And i know this. And i..life...just...its still so....idk....

I LOVE THIS POEM SO MUCH THANK YOU FOR POSTING IT IT HELPS ME SO MUCH