The Beginning of it All

    10.6  per   100,000  people   (America)

    9.2   per   100,000  people   (Germany)

  7.6   per   100,000  people   (Spain)

   8.8   per   100,000  people   (Canada)

    439   per   100,000  people   (Bolivia)

  9.8   per   100,000  people   (China)

Some people just don't have it fair in this world. Yeah, I'm going to restate what so many people have stated. This isn't about complaining, this is about trying to make this world a little bit more fair. The people who say: "This world isn't fair" are the people that look over the bad things. They say it without realizing just how 'unfair' this world really is.

But who is the one who really has the power to tell what is fair and what is unfair; right or wrong; good or bad? Maybe a referee in a football game can call whether "that one guy" pushed "that other guy" just a little to hard; or an ump saying whether the player was safe or not. But even in those cases, the "game police" can't make every right decision; they are not perfect. That's why there are so many people yelling at their televisions, telling that one ref that he did it all wrong.

So that means I, personally, cannot determine what is fair and unfair, but every person has some extent of common sense and I will speak my sense. People who commit suicide DO NOT have it fair. They don't, they just don't. The people who have been in sadness for so long that they have to go to the measure of killing themselves have been: treated unfairly; overlooked; benched; been seated in a corner while all the other kids could play; and even left in the dust. Sound familiar now? I really hope so.

My point here, isn't to go off on a tangent about how to pity the people who are suicidal but, in a way, to help them. Saying "Oh, suicide is the most selfish thing one person could do" isn't going to help anyone. And saying "Oh yeah, I give money to an organization to help prevent suicide" isn't going to help either. You see, you have to get your hands dirty. Take off those gloves and pick the thorns with your bare hands. It's going to hurt, yeah, but think about all the other people who you are going to help by picking those thorns yourself.
 
I know that 327,577,529 of American citizens have one of these:





And since you're reading this, I know that the rest of you probably have one of these:




That means, you have a way to contact people, right? Right. So, sorry to say this for some of you all, you have no excuse not to get your hands dirty. And it's not even getting your hands dirty; it's doing the right thing.

Most people know of the story of The Good Samaritan. The man who was beaten, laying on the side of the road, and was passed two times before the Samaritan came to help. One was a priest and the other was a Levite. It says in the Bible "But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him." it says, ". . . as he traveled. . ." which means he was a traveler. It doesn't say where he was traveling to or where he was traveling from. He could have been some important person who could have just left him but he "took pity on him".
 
If we can think of the man on the side of the road as the people who are committing suicide then maybe we can figure out a way to save them. Imagine what potential we have if the Samaritan could drop everything he was doing and helped the man.
 
So let us start at the beginning of it all. Where instead of sending a quit text "hold on" we say "hold on. I'm gonna call you in just a minute". Instead of overreacting, we pick and chose the right emotions for the right time, and maybe even then, the thorns may not be as sharp as we expected.