to people who think killing yourself is easy. it’s not. it’s not as simple as taking and handful of pills, slitting your wrists, jumping off a bridge or cliff, jumping in front of a train or a truck, or anything you can think of. it’s not that easy. and it never will be just that simple. it’s not just saying “goodbye” without caring. people who are suicidal care, we care so much about others, what they think of us, how much they judge us, how much they love us. we care if we hurt those around us by hurting ourselves. WE CARE. so don’t ever tell someone who’s suicidal that they don’t care or that they’re selfish, because they’re far from that. how is it at all selfish for a suicidal person to live and breathe everyday no matter how much they’re suffering inside all because they don’t want to hurt you? it’s a constant struggle everyday between either hurting yourself or those around you. and suicidal people are selfless. we’d rather carry the weight of our suffering on our shoulders than burden anyone else with it, we’d rather take a razor to our wrist than tell someone who’s bullying us to shut up. we can deal with so much and we don’t let anyone see how much we’re actually dealing with. and then one day we realize it’s too hard to carry on like this anymore, we make plans to kill ourselves and then we tell someone who think would care and then they call us selfish. so the next time a suicide date comes around, we won’t tell anyone, we’ll keep quiet, we’ll do what we have to do. and then someone succeeds, and then the person who they told the first time around says something like “i wish they told me instead, i wish i could have done something to stop them” well yes, they could have, the first time instead of calling them selfish, or thinking they were doing it for attention, or anything else, the could have opened up their heart and taken some time to just listen. just listening can do so much, just being there for your friends means so much. every time i see my friends struggling i want to be able to tell them something to make them smile or at least make them feel a little better, but i never know what to say. if you’re the same, maybe just simply ask them if they’re okay, and you could save their life. i’m sorry this is so long, and i got distracted from the main point.