So let's hear it. Mold my young, impressionable mind with all that you've learned.
callmebadger, alright, I will. I have learned that being afflicted with hard times and trials can be blessings in disguise. I have struggled with epileptic seizures, and depression, and suicidal thoughts/attempts/loss of friends and family to suicide, and most recently, cancer and a bad fall that injured my back badly and put me out of commission for over a month!! Everyone on here has some sort of battle of their own going on. I have learned that a disability does not have to define who I am. I have learned to rise above it, and use it to make me stronger. The same goes for my severe depression and suicidal thoughts, which thanks to God's mercy, I finally emerged from about two years ago. What does not kill a person makes them stronger!! There is nothing worse than being faced with your own mortality. There are no scarier words than the ones that a doctor says to you over the telephone: "you have cancer." Your mind spins, you start to wonder "what if..." and "why me". I am fortunate enough to have been given the knowlege by God, as to what the reasons have been for every trial I have faced so far. I even survived being tied to a bed, gagged, and raped by a madman who very well could have killed me!!
Through God's help and mercy, I am alive today to share my experiences with others in the hopes that my battles will help them, inspire them to keep the faith, turn to God and not give up!! I know you have problems--we all do. But I take one day at a time, and keep my mind focused on Jesus' great love for me, and that keeps me going. YOU, however, are only 17. Your life has'nt even really begun yet!! You have not experienced what me, or Nate, or anyone else has gone through, or is going through right now. You're not in livvy_holt's shoes, dealing with a friend who called her before he committed suicide last Sunday!! You have no idea how that feels for her. I do, though, for I have lost several friends AND family members to suicide. My next-door neighbor's son committed suicide a few years ago--he used a shotgun and his poor mother who is very elderly, found him. So dont sit here arrogantly and tell me you know more than some of us adults do. Clearly, you dont.
Take a page from Nate's book. At least he knows how to take constructive criticism, and realizes that us grownups DO know quite a bit more on certain things than you do. I pray that God will take your prideful, arrogant attitude and soften it up a bit.