we’re not saying you can change her ’cause people don’t really change
It’s not even 7am I want to give up on this day.
I don’t even care about soccer, but US what was that???
A writer for the new york times interviewed a series of people who had survived jumping off the golden gate bridge. Every person she interviewed admitted that about two thirds of the way down, they realized that every seemingly meaningless problem that caused them to jump was fixable.
Every single one.
THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
“But to me, the more significant fact is that 90 percent of them got past it. They were having an acute temporary crisis, they passed through it and, coming out the other side, they got on with their lives.”
In Seiden’s view, a crucial factor in this boils down to the issue of time. In the case of people who attempt suicide impulsively, cutting off or slowing down their means to act allows time for the impulse to pass — perhaps even blocks the impulse from being triggered to begin with. What is remarkable, though, is that it appears that the same holds true for the nonimpulsive, with people who may have been contemplating the act for days or weeks.
“At the risk of stating the obvious,” Seiden said, “people who attempt suicide aren’t thinking clearly. They might have a Plan A, but there’s no Plan B. They get fixated. They don’t say, ‘Well, I can’t jump, so now I’m going to go shoot myself.’ And that fixation extends to whatever method they’ve chosen. They decide they’re going to jump off a particular spot on a particular bridge, or maybe they decide that when they get there, but if they discover the bridge is closed for renovations or the railing is higher than they thought, most of them don’t look around for another place to do it. They just retreat.”
The Urge to End it All by Scott Anderson
(Source: waste-it-dreaming-blog)
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I tried going into the Iraq tag to see what everyone here was saying and I want to vomit.
I guess I take what’s going on in Iraq very personally because my dad fought there. In the Battle of Ramadi my dad won his Silver Star, but also watched friends die. He survived an IED ambush attack, but also watched friends die. My dad did a lot in that country, feed starving kids, helped plan infrastructure, ate with tribal leaders and received gifts from them, felt the graciousness from the local people. We go back and forth in my family about whether or not the US should’ve gotten involved at all, but my dad feels that real good was done for the people there. My dad is not a spiritual man, but he said there were buildings and villages you could walk into in Iraq and feel the overwhelming presence of evil. When he left, the presence was diminished, the good people of Iraq were praising his work. They were thankful.
My dad sacrificed years of his life for that country, some of his friends sacrificed their entire lives. There are buildings on our military base named after some of those fallen soldiers. To think that in a few short months all that work, blood, sweat, and sacrifice is almost for nothing, is heartbreaking. Regardless of whether or not the US should have gotten involved, we did. And I feel we still owe an obligation to the people of Iraq to keep them safe from those who would persecute them because of their religion, from those who would control them and destroy them with terror. I believe we should stand with Iraq to help them stay safe from outside invaders. There are incredible and good people in Iraq, there are incredible Americans who sacrificed everything for the good people of Iraq. We owe all those people what we can give them to keep them safe and preserve their freedom.