Steven Watts-Random

I recently read an article about suicide found in teens. After reading this and thinking about the ways that many of these kids dealt with their pain, it brought me back to the movie Northfork that we just watched in class. The boy in the film sought refuge within his own brain from the pains of his own reality. Many of the kids that were spoken about in this article that I read, were faced with real world devastating realities, but found escapes from their lives in things that they could alter their reality with. For many of these kids it was drugs and alcohol, others it was eating disorders, but all of them sought out something. I think it is so easy for us to ignore the people around us and to disregard the realities that they find themselves in. If we are able to realize these things many peoples lives could be changed.