Normally I am not all that serious...

So as it turns out it is national suicide awareness day or something along those lines... and I got to thinking... I am so glad my idiot attempts when I was an idiot teenager didn't work out. My life is so amazing now. I wish that people could see it's never that bad... and it is the most selfish act a person can commit. It is not just your life it effects everyone around you and people in the future who would have met you and been impacted by something you said or a kindness you showed for someone else... instead you have taken that from them and in the wake of you deciding this was the only way out you leave all those who know and love you in a very dark sad place to forever feel the loss. I have had friends touched by suicide in their families, friends who have done it and left us all too soon and family members who have done it thinking there wasn't another way... and in the wake of all of that I have seen the pain that is left. It is horrible... so if you know someone who seems like tomorrow they might not be able to handle things don't hesitate to talk to them, don't hesitate to make a phone call or hold their hand. Your kindness to them might be the light that brings them out of a scary dark place.

In thinking of someone helping someone else that is a freaking huge issue w/ society today. Why is it we can't just freaking help one another? Why is it when someone sees an old lady struggling w/ a door they just step back and watch? It could be a simple thing like holding a door, letting someone out in traffic or holding traffic so a mom with 3 kids can cross the street and make it into the store safely. That could make someone's day. Why when some small kindness happens are we as a society not appreciative? All it takes is a smile and a "thank you" to make someone else smile and say "you're welcome" easy... doesn't hurt at all ... doesn't cost you anything... could make one person a little happier to be alive. I think if we start attempting to incorporate little kindnesses into our days that little by little we can make a change... so I challenge the few who read this to go out and say "excuse me" when they pass someone in a grocery store, or please and thank you to the cashier at Walmart. Little kindnesses can go a long way...