As a whole we love to say, "I told you so." We love the sense of knowing we were right all along and we love that sense of superiority. Aside from telling someone, "I told you so," people love to ask rhetorical questions. The biggest, most unnerving rhetorical question you can ask someone is, "Was it worth it?"
Asking that to someone gives you a sense of power in the situation. Usually the person asking knows that the answer is no. Usually that question is asked after someone has made a mistake. The level of severity of the mistake is what determines how harsh asking this question would be.
I've wanted to ask this question in so many different situations. It's run through my head in both big and small situations, in situations close to my heart and ones that didn't affect me at all.
I usually refrain from asking it, but because of what today is and how this year has played out I think it is time to ask those questions.
Was it worth it?
Was it worth almost losing your family to drinking?
Was it worth the tens of thousands of dollars sending him to rehab to save him?
Were those nights of drinking worth losing someone close to you?
Was it worth losing yourself?
Or was I never worth it?
Were we never worth it?
Those are just some questions I've wanted to ask throughout my time in high school. Some I've wanted to ask on more than one occasion and some apply to more than one person.
Some of those questions are more rhetorical than others. I don't know some of the answers. I know for certain the answer to number three is yes. I've wanted to ask those for awhile and I feel like today was the right time to do it. I'll never know the answers to most of those questions, but maybe some questions shouldn't be answered.
Maybe they don't need answered because they didn't need asked.
Maybe I should already know the answers and I don't need someone else to tell me them.
Maybe I already know the answers, but I just wanted some reassurance.
NP: Famous Last Words- My Chemical Romance
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