Posted by bob on April 14, 2000, at 1:10:02
In reply to Suicide, posted by In Need on April 13, 2000, at 22:58:48
(great ... my browser crashes, and I lose the ultimate reason, which I had just typed out but now cannot recall with the same clarity ... damn)
I'm sure others will offer good reasons, but I can't tell you why you shouldn't kill yourself. Some people find what they need in the answers of others, but that's never worked for me.
I do know that finding a reason not to kill yourself isn't enough. You need to find a reason to live. Not a "Reason to Live" or a reason to live for others. A reason to live for yourself.
Start small, that's my best advice.
My German Shepard finds great fortune and joy in the moment when I open the door to our apartment, whether I've been gone five minutes or all day. It took me a long time to learn that lesson from her, but it did sink in eventually.
"The hardest to learn was the least complicated."
Living for others can be enough to keep you around for a while, but in that while find something for yourself -- not just "no matter how simple", but starting with the simple.
You can start with the good fortune of finding a group of folk who understand where you are because they've been there themselves and have lived to tell.
We also live to listen, so please keep talking.
be well,
bob
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