The Walk That Saved a Life

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The trick with this blog post is to find links, but with the story I chose to cover for this assignment, I must tell this story.

First I'll tell you that the signs of depression are easy to see. People become less interested in things they had passions for, start giving away items, start talking about death, and many other signs. There are other physical signs of depression as well. The key is knowing how to react to the signs of depression.

But anyways, the story that I must share with everyone.

I know someone, it was his freshman year of high school. He was at a school he had no interest in going to. He wanted to go where his friends were going bu this parents sent him somewhere else. He was alone, hopeless, and depressed. He had no friends in high school and none of his grade school friends had kept in contact with him. He was desperately alone.

He spent countless nights crying himself to sleep, just wishing that he had one thing to look forward to. He got cut from the freshman soccer team, had no friends at school, and started his high school career by getting the worst grades of his academic career. He felt like a total failure in every sense of the word.

One night, he decided he was just going to leave. He was tired of lying in bed feeling hopeless, and so he got out of bed and left. Didn't have a gameplan other than getting out of the house. He was in a shady part of the city, so maybe he would run into some trouble, that way his death would be a tragic accident and he'd be remembered for that, not suicide.

He didn't find any trouble on his walk... He found hope.

While on his walk he came across a man, the man stopped and said, "Young man, what's wrong?"

My friend stood there silent.

The man said back, "I can feel your pain just by walking by you, please, take this, read it and remember this."

The man handed my friend a piece of paper that said "The Lord is my rock and my strength." It dawned on my friend that he had given up hope in life, and in God, but God had not given up hope in him.

My friend's life has completely turned around since that day, and now he shares his stories with those who feel hopeless. That even in our darkest times, there is always a light.

So please, make yourself aware of those that are depressed and suicidal. You could be the one to save a life.