In the eyes of one, suicide makes you a coward. Something I've heard many say before, if not to me then their friends, those around them. But I believe that if a coward can stand at the top of the tallest building in the city and still have the courage to jump, then I think they deserve some recognition. It takes a lot to get somebody to a point that they think it's alright to try to end their pain and suffering by ending their own life. It's a difficult decision to come to, yet there are always those people have decided to go through with it. One of the most common things in teenagers that lead to their suicide is most often bullying. I don't think I'm a coward though, after dealing with bullying for what's seemed like endless days, weeks, years. It's shaped me to be who I am today, a coward.
The tears rolled silently and steadily down my cheeks, creating little wet spots on the ground beside my feet. It would take only one step to end it all, the final decision that would make everybody else happier. The one thought, the one word that everybody ignores because they don't like to think about the consequences. I looked down, the ground what seemed like millions of miles away. The cars and streetlights so far down they looked like miniature toys I used to play with as a child, this brought a smile. My childhood years, where everything was innocent, nothing was serious, we were all friends and the hardest decision was choosing what crayon to use to color your pictures. How we all wanted to grow up as fast as we could because we couldn't wait to be adults. I chuckled dryly to myself and sat down, legs crossing at the ankles as they hung off the side of the building. Childhood ignorance is such a funny thing, we have years ahead of us, all wanting to be a firefighter or a police officer, excited to have jobs and not having to worry about school anymore but as the years progress, we long to return to those years, the stages of childhood ignorance, where everything was so simple, instead of dealing with the struggles of today.