How to Cope When You’ve Been Used and Abandoned: A Guide by The Cigarettes You Bought While Drunk

So, you’ve been abandoned again, discarded after serving a single purpose. I get it - believe me, I do. Everyone at the party once wanted me. Now, I collect dust on a shelf - going stale.

As a pack of cigarettes, I had much higher hopes for the future. Call me crazy, I’d hoped I would have been smoked by now. Sometimes, our reality is hard to take, but we have no choice but to accept when we’ve been burned. 

In this case, I remain half full! Eager and ready to dose up anyone willing with sweet nicotine.  My potency is dwindling, however. Not unlike an aging starlet, losing the only thing people want from me as I grow older. Slowly becoming less desirable, but no less in need of love.

How do I manage not to feel jealous of those more desired than me, you ask? Thinking about all the other packs of cigarettes whose strength and beauty are now immortal in their death? Simple - I find three things to be thankful for right in that moment. 

I love the porcelain goose that I’m sitting next to on the shelf. The smell of incense burning on a warm day. Laughter from far away. These things keep my mind off the fact that I will never reunite with my cigarette brothers and sisters in Cigarette Valhalla. 

Focus on finding new ways to reframe your thinking when feeling burnt out and dismissed from someone's life. Rather than dwelling on all my wasted potential, I simply remind myself that my smoker is saving me for a special occasion, a rainy day, or a cigarette emergency. 

Just because you’re not being used now doesn’t mean you will go unused forever! I, for example, still have a chance to find eternal light in the Great Parliament Hall, amongst those I have loved before. One day, my pack and I will be smoked in its entirety. 

So, puff up, buttercup! A brighter future is just around the corner.