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Selfishness

Death.

Suicide.

When most people hear these,

They think a series of awful words:

Sad;Terrible;Tragic;Heartbreaking;

And worst of all... Selfish   

How be it selfish

To tell this world you\'re finished?

Finished with its hurt, its pain, its heartbreak?

They seem to believe 

That you\'re only thinking of yourself

Whenever you... decide to end it

They believe that you are only thinking of all the horrible things that\'s happened to you

And not of all the people that always seem to be around you

That you are so caught up within yourself

That you don\'t even realize who you\'d be hurting in the process

But, see, that\'s the thing

Have they ever thought about

How long this has been going on?

How many signs they\'d missed?

Or chosen to ignore?

How many times that person had opened up to them,

And they\'d put it off as them just being

A stupid kid?

Had they known all along

That something was going on?

I think that the people who

Call suicide victims selfish

Are really just trying to mask their own venomous traits

Their guilt for not doing something

For just putting off the child\'s emotions as

Teenage hormones

I said all that to say

If you EVER hear someone call

A suicide victim selfish

They\'re just trying to cover up their own