I understand......

I now understand what I hadn't before. I use to think that people who cut themselves were so stupid...Like it was just for attention, which in some cases, it is. But, I now understand why most people do it. It's a matter of them not being able to take mental pain but being able to take physical pain. When I say mental pain, I mean things such as bad emotions or even depression. Some people just don't want to face their problems or their pains, so they cut themselves instead. Watching the blood trickle down their arms, as if watching all of their pains wash away. Like they shouldn't have a care in the world anymore. But though they may think it's good for them, it could lead to so much worse. If someone were to cut them self every time something bad happened, and it was only a small problem, imagine what their going to do if something so horrendous happened that they couldn't bare it. They wouldn't just slightly cut themselves. They would slit their entire wrist.......

I just had a wakeup call.......

Sometimes people are oblivious to everything. Sometimes, their not. Some people litter, some people clean it up. Some people are more conservative. Some just don't give a damn. I believe it's time we start caring about others and our surrounding! The world takes life one day at a time, and for some of us, that's a good decision because we're not even sure if we'll see tomorrow. But the whole world doing this? Even if you say you don't, you kind of do. Look at this war we're in for example. Why are we still fighting? No one thinks about tomorrow, and when I say that, I mean no one thinks about the future. What about the kids of our soldiers? Or what about the kids of Iraq's soldiers? You kill today, that's one more kid who's parent less tomorrow. You don't think!
Everyone is always saying that us kids are the future of tomorrow, or something like that. So why would you jeopardize that? Sometimes, even the smallest of things can affect the way we think or feel. What if it all turns bad? I mean our thoughts or how we feel. What if by just one of our closest friend or even our parent dieing caused us to go into a complete meltdown and all of our happy thoughts turn into angry, depressive ones? That will corrupt a kid, or even an adult.
People these days don't care enough about how others feel . They don't care about how certain actions will affect others! Think about the future. Think about your kids. Do you really want to grow up like some countries where they have children learn to use riffles when their only about five or six just to prepare them for war? Do you really want this world we live in to be just filled with hate, discrimination, and ungrateful people? Would you really subdue your kids to that? Do you really want to?
I know I just asked a lot of questions, but if I don't ask them, who will? Really think about this, that is, if you actually care at all about something besides yourself.

Lesson 4: Open up.....

How many people just keep their problems and emotions to their selves? And how many of you that do, feel like you are about to explode into tears thinking that you will feel better afterwards? I bet almost all of you do....But I don't think that that is the problem. Maybe you just need to find someone you can trust, someone you can confide in and tell all of your secrets to or tell them how you really feel or your opinions about things. Someone that won't judge you, won't laugh at your ideas or at you in general. Finding someone like this will probably be hard for a lot of people. Especially for those who don't trust easily.
When people begin to open up, most of the time, they begin to feel a little better. To me, it feels so mush better when I'm able to just talk to someone. You don't feel like you're carrying a huge weight on your shoulders. You can relax a bit more.
I have maybe one person that I trust like this. One person that I could tell anything to and that knows just about everything about me. This person is a family member. Maybe that's where you might want to start. Someone inside your family is more familiar to you then anyone else so it should naturally be easier for you to talk to them. (Unless you have a bad surrounding or bad life at home) When you talk to someone inside your family, it should be someone you can trust with anything and that this person won't tell anyone else what you told them, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS.

If you're one of those people who someone else feels that they can talk to, don't blow that. It's not always easy for people to talk to others. It should be a privilege to you that someone actually feels that they trust you enough to they point where they tell you how they feel, whats wrong, their dreams, or their secrets. Even if you don't think so, it's true. A lot of people aren't very trusting when they get older, so this especially applies to young adults such as middle schoolers or high schoolers.
Who talks to you is important, and who you talk to is important. Treat others as if you care. More people will open up to you. And the more you treat others as if you care, they more they get comfortable with opening up and the better they'll feel.