Suicide Prevention Training Role Play
A Stage Play by Kevin Reader
Life is about perspective. What I see is completely different than what someone else sees. I just recently changed majors from business administration to photography. Needless to say, my parents are worried. I'm their only child. I suppose they have a right to be worried. But not smothering. Five-six times a day I get phone calls from my mother. My dad, seven emails between the hours of 9 am and noon. It must have been a slow day in the office. But I don't need any more friends in my life, I need parents. Did you go out last night? When I went to school down there, I went out five nights a week. The tuition bill came in that will be $8,000, jkol, don't worry son, we paid for it. Going to the game later tonight? No, I didn't go out last, and no I'm not going to the game later. I understand that my parents love me. School is different nowadays. It's a competitive market. The hungry wolves pick out the weak sheep and thin the herd. I thought changing majors would help. Explore myself a little bit more. But the more I do, I realize that I know less and less about this world. It is just clear to me that the world is a huge place, and I'm always in competition with the people around me. I'm tired. I just want to sleep.
© 2008 Kevin Reader
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I don't really understand the title but I can relate to this, real or not. I dropped outta med school with a supporting family behind me. Now I'm home, at least you switched majors. Everyday I wake up and I just want to go back to sleep. Life used to be so easy being told what you have to do, hey! I think i understand the government now :)
I thought I could go into business. I thought wrong, like medicine, my hopes were up for it until my pipe dreams gave way to reality. I dropped math way back when for biology and chemistry, thinking my life was going to be linear from there on.
Sometimes...maybe all the times, I wish I never bought my ticket home. I wish I didn't have to wake up in a house full of people telling me it's okay and to give it time "you're young." I wish I could just quiet it all. I'm exhausted from doing nothing. I feel defeated and useless. And all i do now is workout, eat, write on this site and dream about being a greater person.
I put away thoughts of suicide and reinforced my being here with stories of people who came from nothing to something. Yet i came from something: a great family and an easy life. Sometimes I get caught under the impression that if I were less gifted I would be more of a person than I am. But now, now I just want to go to sleep and dream. When i wake up all this would be for nothing and I would go on living my life as obliviously and confused as I have somehow always been deep down inside.
No friends, no life, living at home with no purpose.
Should have punched myself in the balls and stayed in medical school.
Posted 14 Years Ago
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Added on February 5, 2008
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Kevin ReaderChicago, IL
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holy smokes! i'm on amazon.com - search for Kevin M. Reader
its official: you can buy my book, the official release date was 7/16/2007
I think I live in the narrative.
I do a lot of improv .. more..
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