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The Umpteenth Journal Attempt

(Hopefully) daily ramblings from the hazy mind of Hasief Ardiasyah

Thursday, January 08, 2004

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I think I just had an IRC chat with someone on the brink of suicide. Not a random, faceless someone, but a person I actually know and have met. A friend, you could say. Anyway, when - out of the blue - you get a message board post that more or less amounts to a farewell note, and the author of said note happens to be still in the land of the living and you can get in touch with them, wouldn't you try to talk them out of it? Common sense dictates that we not rule out the possibility of it all being a prank, the over-exaggerated effect of negative emotions, or just a plain old attention-seeking attempt. And I would be supremely pissed off if it turned out that my efforts to help were taken for granted. Consider me seriously lacking a sense of humour, but if that were the case, then I wouldn't be all hugs and joke cursing like in a typical episode of Punk'd or Candid Camera. Suicide is no laughing matter.

But I can live with being wrong or the victim of a hoax. I can't live if I knew I had the chance to stop something senseless and didn't take it. The Helpful Masochist strikes again.

So to that someone, if you're reading: if you were for real, then I'm sorry if I doubted you. Glad you're still amongst the living, and I hope I managed to help pull you back from the brink. But if you were just screwing me around...well I'm glad you're not really suicidal, and I hope you enjoyed a laugh at my expense. Laughter is important for living. My friendship, however, is not. If you didn't need it before, then you sure as hell don't need it now. Enjoy your life.
posted by Hasief  # 1/08/2004 08:04:00 am
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