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Embrace Life
Following the tragedy of two Belgrave teenage girls taking their lives in Ferntree Gully recently, some people are making a stellar effort to do something positive and uplifting. A concert about the value of life and suicide prevention will be held in Belgrave on May 12. They need as much support as possible! For more information visit www.myspace.com/embracelife07
or you can read the Knox Leader on May 8 or online later that day at www.knoxleader.com.au
Peace xox
Is it for all ages or just under 18s?
Let’s hope this community can continue its education of life skills and coping skills, so no other bodies are found in this area. Kids should have support measures in place to make sure they don’t endanger themselves or are influenced by their peers.
Perhaps missopinion, though clearly not suicidal, can offer an opinion on this. My own view is that teenagers with a problem would avoid like the plague “a concert about the value of life”. I believe that what is needed is a greater understanding, leading to recognition of potential problems and then intervention. These two misguided girls had their own view on the value of life and I doubt if a ‘concert’ would have changed their minds.
Perhaps it will take a new movement, not anti-goth or anti-emo, just different ( I fancy oversize white t’s with CHOOSE LIFE).
Sure life can be a bitch, cruel and unfair. It can also be good, rewarding and enriching. But you can’t change it from the outside.
come back we miss you… tears and heartbreak grow to anger and pain… you had no right to take your life and leave us this way we loved you… alas you did not care
In my (still teenage for two months!) opinion, a concert won’t help… sure, it’s a nice and constructive gesture that came from something terrible, i.e. a phoenix rising from the ashes… but a bird doesn’t help when everything is charred rubble.
I know how I would feel about such a thing when I was sixteen and depressed - the irony of it is quite cruel. A concert teaching about the value of life - but many young people with depression are alone, and who wants to go to a concert by themself? Sure, a concert is a nice thing to do, and I’m sure that many people will enjoy it, but I doubt it will reach the isolated, lonely teenagers who feel hopeless because they have no, or very few friends and feel they have nothing to live for. And if they were able to go, how would hearing happy music give them something to look forward to, understanding, or fix what is wrong in their lives? They may have a nice time, but then the party is over and nothing has changed.
I quote The Smiths: How Soon Is Now lyrics on this one:
“…So you go, and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home, and you cry
And you want to die.”
Perhaps this is a pessimistic way of looking at it, but it is how I would see it then.
I think some sort of online community designed to help young people make friends with similar interests in their local area, complete with suggested safe, constructive, teenager-accessible weekend or after school activities, and sound advice for those going through a tough time or battling mental illness. I think that would make more of a lasting difference than one day of nice music.
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