You're sitting in your room ~ door locked ~ with a pen in your
hand and a blank piece of paper in front of you. Your hand is
shaking, and the tears begin again - for the third time in
the past hour. 'To my family' you write at the top of
the page, but deicide it's a bad way to start your letter -
your suicide letter. You try again, start over - again and again,
but you dont know where to begin. No one undertsands you; no one
knows what you're going through, you're alone or at least
that's what you think. Nobody would care if you're alive or
not, you mean nothing to nobody. It's night and you slip into
bed. 'Goodbye' you whisper into the darkness. And with
that, you take your last breathe and end it all. Nobody cares,
right? Well you thought wrong. It's a Tuesday the following
morning, and when it's 7:21, your mother comes and knocks on
your door. She doesnt know you cant hear her, she doesnt know
you're gone. She knocks a few more times, calling your name to
open up. When there is no reply from your side of the door, she
opens it and screams. She collapses on the ground while your dad
rushes to your room. Your siblings have already left for school.
Your very weak mother collects all the energy she's got, which
is close to nothing, to walk over to your bed. She leans over your
dead body, crying, screaming. Your dad is trying to stay strong,
but the tears escape his eyes; calling 000 or 911 with his left
hand while his other one is on your mother's back. Your mother
blames herself. All those times she said 'no' to you, all
those times she had screamed at you, ant sent you to your room over
something stupid. Your father will blame himself for not being
there when you asked for help, for being away from home at work for
long. Nobody cares still, right? 8:34. There's a knock on your
classroom door, it's the school principal. She looks more
worried then ever. She calls the teacher to the side; all the
students are worried: what's going on? The principal then later
announces about your suicide. The popular girl that always called
you fat and ugly is now blaming herself. The kid that would always
copy your homework but treat you like crap ~ he's blaming
himself. The boy that sits behind you ~ the one that would throw
things at you during class ~ he's blaming himself too. The
teahcer is blaming herself ~ for all those times she'd scream
at you for forgetting your homework, or not listening in class.
People are crying, screaming, shocked, in regret of what they did.
They'll all be devistated - even the kids you've never
talked to before. Still nobody cares, right? Your siblings get
home. You mother has to tell them that you're gone; forever.
Your little sister ~ no matter how many times she's screamed at
you, told you she hated you and stole your stuff ~ always loved
you, and saw you as her hero; her role model. She now starts to
blame herself; why didn't i do what she told me to do when she
told me to? Why did I take her stuff even when she asked me not
too? This is all my fault. Your brother gets home ~ the boy that
never cries. He's now in his room; mad at himself ~ he caused
your death. All those times he'd played pranks on you.He's
punching holes in his wall, turning things over; he doesn't
know how to deal with the fact that you're gone. Forever.
Nobody cares about you, right? Right? It has beeen over a
month now. The door to your room has been closed this whole time.
Everything is different now. Your brother has to be sent to anger
management classes, your little sister cries everyday still waiting
for you to come back. Everyday she waits for tou to come back home.
The popular girls have now turned anorexic, they dont know how to
deal with the pain their feeling. Your father has depression; your
mother hasn't slept for nights, its all her fault. The boy who
would always bother you dropped out of school. The boy that copied
your homework now cuts. But nobody cares about you, aren't I
right? Your mother finally decides to go clean out your room. But
she can't do it. Shes' locked herself in your room for two
days now, trying to clean up your clothes, your things. But she
can't, she can't say goodbye to you, not yet. Not now. Not
ever. It's your funeral, its a big one ~ everyone comes, yet
nobody knows what to say. The beautiful girl with the big smile is
gone; you're somewhere else. No one knows what to say,
they're all still shocked. Everyone cries, everone misses you.
They all wish you'd come back but you don't, you won't.
Still think nobody cares about you? Think again. Even if people you
don't show it, they care about you, they love you. If you kill
yourself today or any other day you won't know how much you
meant to people. If you kill yourself today, it stops your pain,
but it pains all the ones who know you for the rest of your life.
Suicide is the easy way out - but its the wrong choice. Life is
beautiful. Yes, it does have its ups and downs, everyone has their
bad days.
sometimes people go through tough times in their lives like
you're probably going through now butbad times come and go. You
might not see the light at the end of the tunnel, but its there. No
matter how hard life gets, never give up on yourself, or on your
life. Take a minute now, and think. If you killed youself ~ how
would the people that you love feel/ go through? Well i'll tell
you: tears, tears, and more tears. Devstation. Guilt. Pain. Broken.
Regret. Miserable. If reading this you still feel suicidal, there
are people that can help you. There are teachers, parents,
grandparents, neighbors, adults, councilors, and me ~ we're all
here for you whenever you need us, you jus thave to speak.