Please don’t end your life, making it the end of the road! Remember—if you succeed, it is final, and there is no turning back!
Most attempts finish up being nothing but failures because some – like with barbiturates – don’t work, and some triers change their minds in the middle of it and thus become merely a messy, unsuccessful attempt finishing up in a psychiatric hospital!
When depressed, talk to – or ring up – a friend you can trust! The very reason you contemplate such measures – loaded off your chest – is already a relief in lifting the burden and easing the urge to take drastic measures – like ending it all! If there is no one you can trust for sufficient understanding, there is always a “Lifeline” to ring to get it off your chest and someone to talk you out of it!
Whatever the reason – extreme sadness, disillusionment or hopelessness, try to solve the problem yourself, which is – through the power on – and taking place within – your mind, which is more effective than the advice and lack of understanding from others!
Although it may seem like it now, tell yourself it is not the end of your world and should not be the end of your life! Because there is a tomorrow and a day and more days beyond, which may and will bring with it new hope and even change, if only in your present mood of hopelessness and attitude, at least long enough, to plan and bring about change you need to say yes to life!
Also, realise that it takes courage to take your life, but more extraordinary courage to face it and live on despite the burden that caused your decision in the first place!
So show more remarkable courage! Don’t give in to what is for the moment, but live for tomorrow and beyond, which is your life! Remember, nothing is permanent! Everything is constantly changing or becoming something else! And so is your mood at this hour, when new hope, a complete change, and what is depressing you bring with it a new future.
In the meantime, you may have to endure your sadness! And survive it until it changes! Somehow, sometime soon, it will! Could you not end it here and now? Tomorrow is still ahead and waiting for you with a change for the better! And this moment, then, will only remain a forgettable memory!
Snap out of it! Let the world go by! Read a book or watch Television! The promise of a new day is just around the corner!
And life is worth living!
Author: Yolanda A. Eden
(1928 – 2018)