Depression hits all of us one way or another at some point in our lives, and suicide has touched almost all of us in one form or another as well … And yet what many of us do not realize is that — unless you can directly save someone else’s life by ending your own — suicide is NEVER the Right Choice … Except in the rarest of instances, suicide is a selfish choice that not only causes others great pain but ends up causing the one committing the suicide even greater suffering than they are already experiencing.

Just as importantly — far more importantly, actually — what many of us also don’t realize is that we can all help prevent suicides every single day of our lives, and that doing so is as simple as reaching out to the others you encounter each day with the smallest acts of caring — reaching out to strangers with a warm smile and a gentle embrace; reaching out to friends & loved ones with anonymous gifts; reaching out to enemies and those who annoy with understanding eyes & kind words …

Suicide is almost always a travesty, my Friends — and it is almost always preventable. Please do your part to stop the ones near you that have already been planned for today … Thank you.

 

Filed under: Practical Tips for Peace-full Living by Scaughdt