The Nimrods wrote:Something happened to me that I never thought would ever happen to me last Friday. After being used to holding as much as an ounce (28.5 grams) of pot on me at a time for the last 2 years, I get busted with a joint (less than a gram) and expelled from school. Now drugs aside I'm an above average student my gpa on average is around 3.9 and now I have to go to an alternative school or some school across town. I contemplated suicide for about 4 days and then decided if I do kill myself it wont be until my hearing some time next week. Life's a bitch.
Homie, lemme give you some perspective. I'll try not to make this sound patronising, but I dunno, guess advice from 20somethings to teens always comes off that way. Life IS a bitch. But a) life is a whole bigger deal than school. I mean don't get me wrong, it's important, but so long as you are intelligent & (equally as important, if not more so) reasonably driven/motivated any dumb mistakes you make in school will be forgotten by the time you go to college/start working. And b) while I'd feel like a hypocritical buffoon for saying DON'T COMMIT SUICIDE, IT'S WEAK or any of those cliches bearing in mind the number of hours spent dwelling on that subject in the past 15 months, I don't think something like this is worth offing yourself over. You are young, & young people make mistakes, & they hopefully learn from them, it's all part of the process of maturing, becoming an adult. Just not worth it.
Hell, I know these words likely make absolutely no difference from personal experience, but sometimes it's nice to hear a different perspective. I've contemplated suicide after some fucking stupid shit in the past, I probably will again in the future, but just...is it worth it, or if you take some time, reflect, will you find that maybe it's not as big a deal as you initially felt. There is almost always a way to dig yourself out of whatever hole you have managed to fall into.
I'm not anti-suicide per se, I can understand why people do it. And sometimes, if you really have exhausted all possible alternatives then it's a justifiable action, even with all the hurt it will cause your loved ones. But for something like this, I think you should talk to someone about how you are feeling, a school councillor, your friends, your church, a stranger on one of those phonelines like Samaritans, whatever makes you feel comfortable.
Hope you get through it.