I’ve been reading this fascinating series in our local newspaper called Lethal Beauty, and it focuses heavily on the people who have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge toward their deaths and the reasons that spurred them to end their lives. Many of their families didn’t even know that they were depressed or even suicidal until it was too late, and that’s a shame. I’ve never had the desire to jump off the bridge myself, but I understand how lonely those people felt and why it was necessary to end their lives. They must’ve felt so hopeless and disconnected with the rest of the world that ending their lives was a better option than saving it. I’ve had feelings of suicide on many occasions before because I felt like nobody in the world cared for me, and it wouldn’t make a big difference if I ended my life because the world would continue to exist without me. Even now, I still have those feelings of suicide on occasion, but I try to find ways to feel better about my life, and it really helps to appreciate what I do have – a decent family, a fully-functional body, and a roof over my head. I know that I’m not that important in the eyes of anyone reading this, but I do know that I deserve to live on this planet just as much as anyone else does.