Suicide…
YUP! I HOPE that title grabs your attention! I hope DESPERATELY it ties you up in knots… makes things just a bit more uncomfortable… maybe a bit queasy and ill-at-ease. I hope it does SOMETHING…
The fact is… there are SO MANY PEOPLE in this world today feeling lonely, isolated, unknown, uncared for, worthless, hopeless, and completely desperate… for “something”… anything… that will bring about some “solution” to the daily dose of desperation and enveloping isolation.
I want… MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THIS WORLD… to reach out to those who are feeling like the world would be a better place without them in it… stand before them and just let them know… “I can’t solve what you are going through. Honestly, I can’t really do much for you… but I DO CARE! I care more than you might ever know… because I KNOW how you feel. I was ONCE in a place similar to where you are now. But I made it. Please hold on… just for a bit longer. I don’t know when… or how… but THIS WILL PASS! I can not guarantee everything will magically get better and there will only be rainbows and butterflies… but I CAN guarantee I will miss you. I will cry. I will wish I had done more… because YOU ARE WORTH IT! You belong in this world!”
Yesterday, I was told a student with whom I had worked in the past tried to end their own life…