Today is a good day.
Please don’t tell me that you know what I’m going through because you really don’t have a clue.
georgesalbertedouardbrutusgilles:
AN OPEN LETTER TO ANN COULTER Written/Read By Special Olympics Ambassador John Franklin Stephens
[SINCERITY ALERT]
If somehow you aren’t aware of the background/context, the full item this is excerpted from will get you up to speed: “During Monday night’s final presidential debate, Coulter tweeted to her followers that ‘I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard,’ an apparent reference to President Obama. The tweet drew widespread denunciation, even from Coulter’s fellow right-wing provocateur Michelle Malkin, and an invitation from Special Olympian John Franklin Stephens to come and meet some of the people she insulted.”(Yes, the Ann Coulters of the world are in so many ways “not worth taking seriously,” and yet there are these moments that require reevaluating what exactly it is that we are acquiescing to by making that determination…)
In honor of suicide prevention week, I think you all should read this and take it in…”A writer for the new york times interviewed a series of people who had survived jumping off the golden gate bridge. Every person she interviewed admitted that about two thirds of the way down, they realized that every seemingly meaningless problem that caused them to jump was fixable. Every single one.” Although times can get incredibly tough, things will ALWAYS get better. It is important to know the signs of suicide although often times they are not visible. When someone takes their own life it doesn’t mean that they are cowardly or selfish but that the pain that they have been suffering has completely taken over them. From all of this, I hope it reminds you all to be kind to others because you never know what they could be going through.
(via alalae)
