By Cecilia Lemus
Pleasant Creek School
I’m not saying life has to be perfect, but I believe that it should be decent. To be honest, if you are going through a hard time, I can relate to you.
For example, if you are being bullied, I know what it is like. It hurts, especially if you are already struggling. Now that I am older I see that people tore me down because they needed to feel good about themselves.
It takes a lot of work to get in a good place. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. I don’t really speak about my life because it is hard. But at the beginning of the year, I was trying to kill myself. Now, I am in a place where I want to live more than I want to die. I definitely still have a lot of things I need to work on, but at the end of the day I know suicide isn’t the answer. Pain does end. Pain is temporary even though it might feel like it is permanent.
The only reason I want to live now is because I started realizing that people do care. I started to focus on the things that I can control. The people that care about you aren’t always going to be your family, but it can be a family that you build. I have made it this far in life because people showed me that they cared and because of my best friend has always been there for me no matter what.
We all need somebody to be our person because we can’t make it through life alone. Somebody who can be our person is a friend, family member or someone we trust. The person who is your person should be someone who is always by your side no matter what, through every low and high.
