hmm, well, what happened in actual fact in the case discussed, was that the teen saw outside himself for a moment. And that moment was enough. He still remembers it, and he looks to things that matter to him.
Not him or anyone is going to get "stop being negative" from me. Hell, I think death is a fine option, and I think the world mostly sucks and 99% of the people in it do.
I'm not going to tell a 15 year old boy who is still in the eighth grade, and flunking it again, whose father beats him, and whose mother is out to lunch, and who thinks hotdogs to go with the biscuits for dinner is a GOOD meal, and whose ceiling has several leaks and all the walls have holes from his father's fists... that life is all hunky-dory and he just needs a good attitude. Life IS full of crap, and most the people here lie, betray, and don't really give a damn. And they sure wouldn't sit up for three days with you. Course I only did it because I wasn't doing anything else at the time, and what the hell.
The point is the sunrise is HIS if he wants it. Not all the lying, abusive assholes in the world can take it away from him. It's all you have to count on sometimes. That and yourself.
And if you really want to die, fine. I wouldn't have stopped him, I wouldn't have said it was bad. But then I wasn't his mother who loved him, I was the one listening to what can be too painful for a mother to hear, that their child wants to die.
Just in my experience, people who are suicidal find something to hold onto, some reason to stay, some way to seperate from their pain and focus on something else... or they die. Simple enough.
And I laughed at him a lot. It's hard not to laugh in the face of such actute teen-age agnst. But one must be careful. Teens are soooooooo sensitive. |
