Words Can Hurt

Hey guys :) I'm back! I just wanted to talk about something more personal to me today. I realized that people nowadays speak without thinking more often than not. They can just tell someone to kill themselves so casually, like it didn't even mean anything to them, and it probably didn't!

I think that people  nowadays don't know the seriousness of their words. To them, it may be nothing, but that 'nothing', could cost someone's life. I can go on the street and ever so often, I hear people just blurting out the words 'GO KILL YOURSELF!' in a moment of anger. But I think what they don't realize is that it could really hurt someone. Someone ever told me to go kill myself before, and it really stung.

You never know who could be struggling. Some people could be on the brink of suicide, and when someone tells them to kill themselves, that could be the last straw, just those few words might really push someone off the edge. This brings me to another topic, too many people nowadays are joking about depression, self harm and suicide. They say it's stupid and that it's just for attention, and that really pisses me off! Do you know how much pain someone must be in, to drag that knife across their skin? Not everybody self harms or commits suicide for attention, there are people that do it in secret. They self harm not because they think it's fun, but to end the pain, to take their attention away from whatever is causing them pain. And they commit suicide because they think that it's the only way out and that it would be better for everyone if they were gone.

Depression is not something to joke about. Do you know how much it hurts, when someone says something but you just have to keep that smile on your face and pretend like it didn't affect you at all? To just hold it in and wait for your chance to go to your room to take out that blade and drag it across your skin? It feels like you're all alone even when you are surrounded by people and you feel your world caving in yet no one's there to help you. You can feel yourself breaking into a million pieces like a broken mirror but nobody's there to help you pick up the pieces. They can hide in their room for hours and just curl up and cry to themselves, feeling like everything is so hopeless and things are never going to get any better. And do you know what hurts the most? Having to force that smile the moment they step out of their room and act like nothing anybody does or says affects them no matter how much it hurts because they know that nobody will care or understand anyway.

I just hope that people will see and understand that one single sentence could cause someone to jump off that building, or swallow that whole bottle of sleeping pills, or drag that blade across their neck. Or their attitude could cause someone to drag that blade across their wrists or thighs. And THEY, THEIR words or attitude would be the cause of their death, or those scars that will be there forever.