September National Suicide Prevention Month

I remember on Tuesday March 3rd, A close friend of mine, started randomly texting me, she kept on threatening me how she was gonna ¨ do it ¨ . now as i know most of my friends, they like to joke around in a weird way. but this friend of mine was different, she was shy around new people but made her way into talking and making new friends. atleast with SOME people..? now what i mean by this, is how people treated her. it was all because she wanted to express herself. although she was lesbian, once a therian, make kandii bracelets and wear cool clothes, i never thought of it much. but some people really did. being homosexual, to them was some ¨ next level ¨ sh1t. i´d hear girls gossip about thinking how she wanted to be closer to them, while just wanting to be really nice. now again, for some girls, being lesbian around them bothers them ALOT. and so from those girls, the gossip went on. the whole class knew about it eventually. but.. she (my friend) didnt really care about those stuff? she went on with her life, and ignored all those hate comments about how she looked or how she acted. until one day, March 3rd. as she kept telling me how she will end it, i kept begging her not to. i didnt want one of my friends to harm themselves. i kept on trying to convince her to not do it, not to do stupid things. but there was just no way. eventually, she started doing it, with a metal pencil sharpener. she told me everything she did that minute. i kept on telling myself how i should possibly keep her ¨ alive ¨ . but then i realised. that friend costs me everything of my life. the one i truly grew up with. so i knew what i had to do. make her open up to me. make her feel safe around me. let her know i´ll never leave her sight. because, she was the only one who gets me on everything. i cant lose a soul like her. September is national suicide prevention awareness month. more than 720,000 people die by suicide every year worldwide. that is more than 1,900 deaths every day-roughly one person every 44 seconds. suicide is one of the leading causes of deathn among young people worldwide. roughly around 2-5% of people attempt suicide at least once in their lifetime. i am a part of that. and so are thousands of other people. you are seen. you are heard. your life matters. YOU matter. asking for help does not make you weak. you DESERVE sunshine. please share this with someone. help them thru THIS.