Pay attention to those around you.. and show your deepest concern..
[quote]It was a solemn occasion, everyone was deep in their own thoughts, reminiscing memories of the girl lying lifelessly in the wooden coffin. Nobody expected all these... nobody... absolutely...
Brenda walked around the coffin, still unable to accept the fact that lying inside, is the girl whom she used to joke around with. In Brenda's mind, there was absolutely nothing, except the sounds of Tess's laughter, the laughter which deceived everyone...
Why did Tess kill herself? Brenda do not understand… She simply couldn't. Tess, the girl who seemed to be at the peak of her life all the time... the girl whom everyone looked for, for advice and company. Why her???
Her life seemed absolutely perfect. A loving family... tonnes of good friends...perfect results.... She's always wearing a bright, cheerful smile, always the joker in class... who could have known, what lies beneath the strong, perfect self image?
As Brenda sat on the church bench, she felt faint. Just then, Mrs. Gearth, Tess's mum, walked towards her. "I found this inside one of Tess's closet... I thought... maybe you should have it."
Brenda took the pink book. She remembered the diary cover, she bought it with Tess, after Tess begged her a thousand times, to go to the bookstore with her after school. Brenda flipped opened the first page... It was the first, and the last diary entry.
24th July 1992
Dear Diary,
I've never trusted in diaries. I'm afraid that one day, all my thoughts will be read out. But I have nobody to talk to, and I could bear no more. Here is a poem, which I think, could represent all of me...
The sky is deep, the sky is dark.
The light of stars is so damn stark.
When I look up, I fill with fear,
If all we have is what lies here,
This lonely world, this troubled place,
the cold dead stars the empty space...
Well, I see no reason to persevere,
No reason to laugh or shed a tear,
no reason to sleep or ever to wake,
no promises to keep or ever to make.
And so at night I still raise my eyes
to study the clear but mysterious skies
that arch above us, as cold as stone.
Are you there, God? Am I alone?
Love, Tess
Brenda recognised the poem. It was Tess's favourite poem, taken from the Book of Counted Sorrows. Brenda never understood why it meant so much to Tess. But now she finally does. It relates so closely to her inner world...whom no one ever entered, and whom no one will ever have a chance to. The poem that she saw thousands of times in her life, finally made her understood that it was loneliness that lay beneath the everlasting smile, and it was loneliness that killed her.
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This story teaches us, how important it is, to walk into the underlying world of everybody, get to understand them, and not assume their character, simply by how they present themselves. We should let all around us know that there'll always be someone there for them, in times of loneliness, and depression. Pass this story on to all around you, and save the lonely souls out there. 5 minutes off your busy schedule might earn you a life long friend, whom you can share your life with. [/quote]
[quote]It was a solemn occasion, everyone was deep in their own thoughts, reminiscing memories of the girl lying lifelessly in the wooden coffin. Nobody expected all these... nobody... absolutely...
Brenda walked around the coffin, still unable to accept the fact that lying inside, is the girl whom she used to joke around with. In Brenda's mind, there was absolutely nothing, except the sounds of Tess's laughter, the laughter which deceived everyone...
Why did Tess kill herself? Brenda do not understand… She simply couldn't. Tess, the girl who seemed to be at the peak of her life all the time... the girl whom everyone looked for, for advice and company. Why her???
Her life seemed absolutely perfect. A loving family... tonnes of good friends...perfect results.... She's always wearing a bright, cheerful smile, always the joker in class... who could have known, what lies beneath the strong, perfect self image?
As Brenda sat on the church bench, she felt faint. Just then, Mrs. Gearth, Tess's mum, walked towards her. "I found this inside one of Tess's closet... I thought... maybe you should have it."
Brenda took the pink book. She remembered the diary cover, she bought it with Tess, after Tess begged her a thousand times, to go to the bookstore with her after school. Brenda flipped opened the first page... It was the first, and the last diary entry.
24th July 1992
Dear Diary,
I've never trusted in diaries. I'm afraid that one day, all my thoughts will be read out. But I have nobody to talk to, and I could bear no more. Here is a poem, which I think, could represent all of me...
The sky is deep, the sky is dark.
The light of stars is so damn stark.
When I look up, I fill with fear,
If all we have is what lies here,
This lonely world, this troubled place,
the cold dead stars the empty space...
Well, I see no reason to persevere,
No reason to laugh or shed a tear,
no reason to sleep or ever to wake,
no promises to keep or ever to make.
And so at night I still raise my eyes
to study the clear but mysterious skies
that arch above us, as cold as stone.
Are you there, God? Am I alone?
Love, Tess
Brenda recognised the poem. It was Tess's favourite poem, taken from the Book of Counted Sorrows. Brenda never understood why it meant so much to Tess. But now she finally does. It relates so closely to her inner world...whom no one ever entered, and whom no one will ever have a chance to. The poem that she saw thousands of times in her life, finally made her understood that it was loneliness that lay beneath the everlasting smile, and it was loneliness that killed her.
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This story teaches us, how important it is, to walk into the underlying world of everybody, get to understand them, and not assume their character, simply by how they present themselves. We should let all around us know that there'll always be someone there for them, in times of loneliness, and depression. Pass this story on to all around you, and save the lonely souls out there. 5 minutes off your busy schedule might earn you a life long friend, whom you can share your life with. [/quote]