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Originally posted by Doc Faustus
Novakru: I agree with you on what you brought up 100%. Suicide is a product of fear and often the belief that nothing lay ahead anyhow and a lot of people don't get the luxury of seeing what they could have, or recieving a moment's compassion. There were times when I was quite resolute about dying, but a little casual friendliness or a phone call from an old friend would be enough to stop me. Sadly, depression is considered a social aberration nowadays. It makes you "emo", a goth, a pussy, a lunatic. The norm is somewhere between joy and apathy. I think it's important that people just treat each other a little more decently, particularly if somebody looks or seems like they're at the edge of their rope. Idiots also never think that the kid they throw a rock at might come to school the next day with an SMG. In general, I think people need to be less naive and stupid in regards to mental illness. After all, without mentally ill people, we'd have very little of the cultural or literary backbone of our society. And softball might not manage to accomplish these changes in attitude I recommend.
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Well said.
And thank you for responding.
Sometimes people in here piss me off the nth degree...
misunderstanding me CONSTANTLY,not getting the vein in which I am responding etc etc-and I am talking about ALOT of threads here-not just this one ( though I do understand sometimes it is not seen-and that is totally cool by me:) )
I wrote that suicide post because ,there are alot of situations we go thru-and come out of,for a reason.That is to have COMPASSION when you see others in that same sitch.That means you can relieve there suffering a bit because you've BEEN THERE and can give maybe a different view or option that someone mired deep into that said situation didn't think of.
People need to be INTERDEPENDANT.
I went to a think tank last night and that word came up alot in reference to all the problems society has today.
We are a bunch of self-centered(I totally include myself in this as well,because I did grow up in the "me" generation and it's a hard, hard habit to break)
Self-pleasuring,selfish group as a whole (there are many exceptions,but I am talking about the majority)
And we need to get back to helping each other and not just when there is a tragedy.
This goes further than just the suicide issue.I am speaking about ''In General".