DareNatG

   "You and I are much too complex to be neatly shelved into a category like clothing in a department store, as if there were only a handful of different types of people in the world instead of millions of unique individuals.   If you've been falsely labeled, you can live with it. The real danger comes when you start to believe the labels yourself, because labels are just like paradigms. What you see if what you get. For instance, if you've been labeled as being lazy, and you begin to believe it yourself, it will become self-fullfulling belief. You'll act out the label. Just remember, you are not your labels." -Excerpt from "The 7 Habits o

I'm sitting in my room, and my mother walks in. She tells me my best friend that I've known all my life is cutting. She tells me that his mother has no idea what to do. I was half awake. When she walked out I was balling. I couldn't believe what I heard. My best friend, taking the risk. You know what would happen if I lost him? You know how his mother would feel? How everyone who cares about him feels? What do I know? I know I've been around people who cut all my life. In 8th grade one of my best friends cut. When I got into 9th grade I saw pictures of my friends arm with cuts on it. In 10th grade I learn my best friend had cut when she was

*I will do this later.*