Tag: hope

Is it ironic, coincidental, incidental or deliberate?  It doesn’t really matter.  It happened.

Yesterday, before 6am, I awoke to knocking at my door.  In a haze, I woke up to my housemate telling me that one of our friends, CJ (name changed) was committing suicide.  I’m not even sure I comprehended her as I was very groggy.  All I remember is saying, what?! and her flashing her phone at me to a Facebook post our friend posted.  She had posted various things but the main part was that she had decided to take her own life, taken a mixture of pills and had gone on a walk and that maybe someone would find a body.

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