{"id":1097,"date":"2018-02-08T14:31:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T14:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/dear-cory-monteith-4\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T14:31:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T14:31:03","slug":"dear-cory-monteith-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/dear-cory-monteith-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Cory Monteith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up watching you on TV. Glee was my favorite show out there. It showed how outcasts could have something all of their own and fit into a group where they belonged. I always wanted a Glee Club at my school. I&#8217;ve never been the best at singing, but I constantly find myself doing it and it&#8217;s one of the few things that genuinely makes me happy. I still remember the day I found out you left this world. I was driving home with my mom and sister from school and my sister read an article that said you died of a drug overdose. A mixture of heroin and alcohol. Most times when I hear of drug overdoses I consider it suicide. Surely people know what they are doing and what the risks are of taking hard drugs. That&#8217;s probably why they take them. They want something to take away the pain, but don&#8217;t people to think they are killing themselves so they drug themselves to cover it up. I think that&#8217;s what happened with you. Maybe everything was too much and you needed a way out. Using heroin is stupid, and then adding alcohol into your bloodstream besides that just sounds like  a death wish. It killed me to know you were gone. I just cried and cried for a week straight. I was waiting for Glee to air their next episode saying how they would play out your death. That episode, Season 5 Episode 3 &#8220;The Quarterback&#8221;, never gave an explanation to your death. You were just dead and the episode was a beautiful testimonial to your death and a remembrance of the time you had here. I watch that episode over and over, I still do whenever I get sad I just turn it on and cry. Somehow it makes me feel better, It gives me a reason to cry whenever I feel I&#8217;m going to. Which is a lot lately. Everything has been getting harder lately. I knew Junior year was gonna be hard, but it&#8217;s all too much for me. I&#8217;m worrying about my job, the ACT, my driver&#8217;s license, and still trying to have perfect grades. It&#8217;s hard to be happy when there&#8217;s too much going on. There&#8217;s not enough time to feel anything. Everything is always go go go. There is no time to stop. If I stop I&#8217;ll get off course and then I&#8217;ll disappoint people. And I can&#8217;t disappoint people. It hurts to let others down. I want to be all that they think I am and live up to my sister. Of course sometimes I wish I could take it all away like you did, but then I would just be letting people down like always. It scares me to think about what happens after we die. I  can&#8217;t imagine not being here, it&#8217;s too hard. It scares me. It&#8217;s like I want to go away, but I&#8217;m too afraid of what I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>After you died, that&#8217;s when I really realized that this world is not all made up of what it&#8217;s supposed to be. Everything is terrible all the time. There is never a moment of pure peace. That&#8217;s all I want. Peace. For everything to be better and on the up and up. But this world is shitty and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s every gonna get better. That&#8217;s probably why so many people are depressed and take their life away. What&#8217;s the point in trying if nothing&#8217;s gonna get better, right? Something needs to change, I don&#8217;t know where and I don&#8217;t know how. But something has to get better at some point, otherwise what is the point of being put in this world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up watching you on TV. Glee was my favorite show out there. It showed how outcasts could have something all of their own and fit into a group where they belonged. I always wanted a Glee Club at my school. I&#8217;ve never been the best at singing, but I constantly find myself doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-letters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loveletters.avadellaira.com\/love-letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}