Happy Friday!
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Once again it is finally Friday. So give yourself a pat on the back for surviving. While some people find this stupid, it does serve as a reminder that you are here and surviving by doing the best you can.
A quick update on my life: I have another article for you all to read - 500 Words on Stress and Anxiety. Early into the semester my allergies acted up terribly, and now they are making an appearance again. (Apparently, they love making me feel miserable.) For all you visual learners, just picture me trying type while sneezing every 10 minutes and sniffling every other second. For all you audio learners, ah, so not going there right now.
School/classes are stressful as they usually are in the first couple of weeks (re: all semester), but I'm pushing through as best I can in the way I know how.
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Now, there are a couple topics I would like to talk about today. One of them is more obvious than the second, but I shall start with the latter.
Suicide: (noun) a taboo topic no one wants to talk about but everyone thinks about
For those who weren't aware that yesterday was World Suicide Prevention Day, you need to wake up and smell the pot of coffee that has been brewing for the past week, also known as National Suicide Prevention Week. More than 800,000. More than 800,000 humans die every day by taking their own lives, according to a 2015 NBC New York article titled Raising Awareness on World Suicide Prevention Day. That number should keep you up at night, because we failed those humans; as a society, we failed those people. While that seems a bit harsh, it's the truth. There were many ways we could have helped or reached out to that maybe might have saved at least one life. After? Well, there isn't much more we can do except try to be better to our fellow humans and raise awareness about suicides and what signs to look for.
Why can't we share more kindness and smiles instead of attacking each other all the time? Does it not get exhausting to be constantly always tearing someone down for whatever reason? A valuable lesson my mother taught me: "If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all." Am I alone in this lesson? Or do we forget that everyone is going through a personal Hell and we attack them anyway?
It's sad. It's just plain sad we live in a world where there are people who don't believe their life is worth living. EVERYONE MATTERS. YOU MATTER.
I won't mention any names, but I know of some people are of the opinion that those who attempt or commit suicide are selfish cowards. Well, I wish I could get you to see just how wrong you actually are. Like an correctly structured argument, I will address the opposition when I say you might have a point. But, people who are of this opinion, do you know who the actual cowards are? People who treat or emotionally hurt others to the point that they think suicide is the only option.
That is all I will say about it.
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The second topic of this post is the 14th anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. I hardly know how to start this off, but there is something I saw on Tumblr today that stuck something in my heart. Here is how the post goes:
"@arabarra: R.I.P. The 2976 American people that lost their lives on 9/11 and R.I.P. the 48,644 Afghan and 1,690,903 Iraqi and 35,000 Pakistani people that paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit."
New York continues to emotionally, psychologically, and economically recover from the devastation of September 11, 2001. We get so focused on our (country's) pain and suffering that we forget that other people suffer and (probably) continue to suffer in the aftermath of this day.
It is for that exact reason the #NeverForget is seen all around.
Because we should never forget the millions of firefighters and other emergency personnel who ran into those buildings, instead of running the other direction.
We should never forget the incredibly brave people on United Airlines Flight 93 who crashed the plane before it reached its intended target.
We should never forget all the pain and suffering of the many people who died that day.
We should never forget the numerous families of those who died in the buildings and of those who attempted to save as many people as they could forever changed and altered by the events of that day.
We should never forget the country silenced by the events of this day.
There are so many historical days that people ask, "What were you doing on this date?" Some are happy news like when men come home from World War II. Others are of the tragic variety like the John F. Kennedy assassination or September 11, 2001. Since I was only 6 years old at the time, I don't remember much. If you ask this question to my mom, she'll say, "Where was I? I was home with Melissa because she wasn't feeling good."
There is something about watching a devastation or tragedy occur right in front of your eyes and you literarily can not stop looking at it. Looking back now, I wonder what our silenced nation sounded like during this tragedy. I can picture millions of teachers pause their lectures and watch the news in awe, millions of bosses pause their meetings to watch the news in rapture, millions of firefighters sit and watch in anticipation, fearing for their fellow co-workers of the trade, millions of factories putting production on hold.
So, where are we now, 14 years later? We made some mistakes out of grief, but I believe our nation came together and be there for one another, especially for those who knew, had relatives, or were directly affected by this devastating event.
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God bless and thank you to all who served in any way to save lives during this tragic moment in United States history.
Until next Friday,
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Thought of the day
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