It's hard when I see someone joke about suicide. I'm in a meeting, it's really boring, the person talking is droning on and on. I look around the room and someone jokingly uses their thumb and forefinger to make what looks like a gun and they pointed at their head and they act like they pulled the trigger and shoot themselves because they just want to get out of the meeting
It's funny until you know somebody that actually did that. Other ways that people joke about it:
- I'd slit my wrists if I had to do x.
- I'd shoot myself if I was in that position.
- I'd drive my car over a cliff before I did that.
It's hard and it's scary when you say these things, it is not fun at all!
When someone you know commits suicide for real it's dramatic. It scars a person. It's like a rock thrown hard into the water and the waves splash and overturn some people's boats.
I tend to think of suicide as a selfish act. Sure, I've had those thoughts. I can't help it in our society where so much is bombarded at you and done in the name of "entertainment" and all of the twisting and manipulation of the emotions to get a reaction in a show.
But they've done studies and I remember reading a few articles about how when one suicide happens others happen in a community. Because consciously or subconsciously the message is received that suicide really is a way to make things "better". Or at least escape from whatever hell a person thinks that they're in.
I had a friend in high school that got messed up with mushroom tea and stabbed himself in the chest with a fillet knife. Apparently the trip was not the greatest and he just wanted to end.
That mindset of doing it is one of the more viral things in human consciousness so we have to be careful with. For that reason I try not to ever joke about it. Because a lot of times what people joke about ends up being something that they actually consider doing and sometimes actually do it.
It's like divorce. I've known couples that have sniped at each other and then started saying "well I'd divorce you if you did x" and "you know if you do that I'll divorce you" then all of a sudden they're filing paperwork and they're done over something stupid. Because they programmed their brain to think that divorce was the solution.
I tend to think that that's what also the Bible meant about being careful what you let into your mind and encouraging the people of the different churches that he wrote to to think on those good things. And that love above faith and hope conquers all. If you know of someone that jokes about it or maybe is thinking about it you may just want to love them. Make sure they know they're loved. So that they don't think that what their programming says is the solution to whatever they think is a problem.
Be sure and love yourself. No, I'm not talking about that stuff. Like what you do. Like how you treat people. If you don't, adjust and learn how to speak positively to yourself.
Tough subject. I hope this makes sense to somebody...
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