A Post-it Note. Seriously? It’s all you gave us for “validation” that you know what has happened today. But do you all really care? Or just want people to know that you put in the effort of acknowledgment. On this day we should be mourning the loss of a fellow student, but instead, we are just putting up sticky notes. No moment of silence, no offer of help or acknowledgment that it’s ok to ask for help. All you gave us were sticky notes around the school. One day passes by and; the notes are gone. It’s like we have forgotten about what happened hours ago to a friend, classmate, or group mate on a project. They are now just gone without a trace. This is one of the problems with our society. I hear time and time again to reach out for help if you need it but, when reaching out for help doesn’t work and the inevitable happens, we go silent. We tell our peers and ourselves that “it’s ok” or “I would never do that” but we soon just forget about what happened in a few short days. That’s how we get rid of our problems though right? It’s just easier to wipe our problems under the rug rather than talk through them to resolve them. This is why we aren’t ready for this conversation of actually making a difference. It is time to talk about the severity of suicide more often so that our next classmate, does not become a part of the forgotten.

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