NOTHING COULD BE THAT BAD!

I am going to begin today to share some writings that are close to me heart. I hope they help you, stimulate someone that's about to make the wrong choice in life, and generally inform readers. Disclaimer: This is no effort to counsel anyone but you can write or respond to what is said. You will get an answer, I promise. So, we begin. . . . . .

Suicide kills people, especially kids. That's who I am most concerned about today. Too much of that goes on. One suicide completion is too many, in my opinion. Why do people do things like that? Someone told me the other day: Nothing could be that bad! He was talking to me about a man we both knew who completed suicide just last weekend.

Nothing could be that bad! And, most of the time that’s exactly how most folks feel; how could it be that bad? We rationalize: surely adults should know better. Suicide is the ultimate solution for absolutely nothing. It really solves nothing and is so often such a selfish act. Look what it does for those left behind. Catastrophic illness and death leave such an empty hole in the hearts of those left behind. Think what suicide does to folks like that. Would you really like that to happen to you?

I believe one of the toughest things I have ever heard had to do with young people responding to one of their fellow teen’s suicide: He was my best friend and he never even told me a thing. He just did it. He never even game me a clue. I was his best friend! I didn’t get to tell her goodbye. That latter statement often causes so much anger to well up in the individual’s heart who said those words. Anger is a valid response to a friend’s suicide.

Why did he do it? Could anything really be that bad? One of the major reasons teens complete suicide today is the compelling feeling of being trapped with no light at the end of the tunnel. I have no where to turn! There is nothing to live for anymore! I made a mistake and the pain is too great! I just can’t bear the shame!

Alone! Insecure! Empty! Hurting! PAIN, Pain, pain! But—let’s reason together just a moment. Don’t forget that many have had the same feelings, the same burdens, and the same struggles; they waited. Even if suicide crossed their minds they thought, None of this is worth killing myself over!

Incorporate this thought into our mindset. Grab that new perspective for your life: Nothing in all the world could be worth killing myself over. No feeling! No thought! No emotion! No situation! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!

At this very important moment in your walk through life, make the right choices.