Talk a stranger out of suicide

Eh HEM! Please excuse my "Friend". Just forget about that whole part about his painted balls, I think he went a little out of context there.Ya know mate, there was a time, where I was in your shoes as well. I was super depressed. Almost to the point of suicide. You see, I had a sweet tooth. One that was not satisfied. I had a lovely batch of cookies, that I had unfortunately lost! I spent moths looking for them. Each month that went by, I slipped just a little bit deeper into my depression. I missed those cookies dearly. I felt I had held them close to me for so long, only to have gotten them ripped straight from my fingers. Where had I put them? I often wondered to myself. Eventually I had to let go. I was heart broken. Then one day, I was casually strolling my kitchen, when long behold....(SEE VIDEO 1)http://www.youtube.com... Now suddenly my life had it's meaning restored! What I had once thought to have had been gone forever, now confronted my longing eyes once more. I was the happiest person you could ever meet.My point here mate, is to NEVER give up. There is always hope. That which you once thought to be lost, may still be out there, waiting for you to reach out and take it! And then to run around screaming about how happy you are about finding it!Anyways... While Imabench was giving you his speech about his green balls, I found and rounded up some people who understand what you are going through. They agreed to sing you a song, written specifically for you, mate.*Suddenly Blink 182 forms it's set up on the ground below*(SEE VIDEO 2) http://www.youtube.com...There are time in your life, when you will feel like nobody cares. There are times in your life, where you feel like nobody loves you. There are times in your life, where you'll feel like all people care about is bragging about their green nutsack, when all you want to do is jump. I am not going to do that to you my friend. I want you to know I am here. I am listening. You are a never ending vortex of creativity, and intellect. You are the vast and special bond that makes human life exactly what it is.(SEE VIDEO 3)http://www.youtube.com... Don't give up. Because there is always hope. And there is Always some on out there who loves you. I wanted to tell you a series of quotes about suicide, made by famous people.As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident. - Peter Greene Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?- Jean-Jacques RousseauA lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound. -Kid RockMMM actually scratch that last one! Pulled that one from the wrong book I suppose!Happiness.I think we have established that happiness is the goal here. In order to succeed in being happy, though we must first pursue it. http://love.givesmehope.com...I have one more friend I would like you to meet. His name is Mr. Randy Pausch. And he has a little message for you.(SEE VIDEO 4)http://www.youtube.com...How do we achieve happiness? We experience. We get out there and pursue those dreams that we have always wanted to do, or accomplish.Stop waiting around. What is holding you back? Money? Drama in some relationship? There comes a point in life, where we just have to look at it all and say "SCREW IT! I am doing what I want to do!"Why wait to find that you have stalled your entire life, just to grasp the happiness that is hanging right in front of your face, eager to be grabbed and used?There is no reason. We create reasons, excuses, and more problems by becoming hopeless.When we give up hope, we eliminate all the options we once had to making our life become greater. The thing so many of us often don't realize, is that the opportunities we are looking for a right in front of our noses waiting to be taken advantage of! Humans are the most intelligent beings on the planet, and arguably, the universe (for those of you who don't believe in alien life forms). We have evolved greatly from the beginning of our existence here on earth. Our knowledge only grows and continues to grow, with each and every passing year. Why is it that we learn so rapidly? It is because from the beginning, man kind has always asked questions. How can we search for an answer without the question?There are many big questions that man has asked yet still search for the answer to. Such as, "Why are we here?", "What happens after death?", or "Is their a greater being?". There are so many questions, but I think that (arguably) the biggest one, is "What is the meaning of life?".My answer to the question is: To enjoy life!Everything we do on this earth, whether we know it or not, is to achieve some sort of goal of happiness. Even those who commit their lives to acts of terror, know (given their beliefs) that they will be rewarded in the afterlife, which is their happiness.We go to work everyday, such that we can support ourselves or our families. But it is more than that. Because living is more than just staying alive. To really live, we need to enjoy our lives and have fun!What I mean when I say the rest is "time wasted", is this. If you were to go into an office every single day of your life, to earn money to live, yet never did anything to enjoy your life, what would the point of life be? There is simply no such gain of value from wasting your life away at a good job, with no end mean.So why not make a living doing what we love instead? The pay may not be great, but at least we enjoy ourselves, thus fulfilling some sort of life goals based on our perceptions and beliefs. If you were to die this way, knowing that you have accomplished all the goals in life to make you happy, how could you ever say it was a life wasted? A lot of us have dis-illusioned ourselves to believe that in order to accomplish our wants, me must first accomplish our needs! We fail to see that is it possible to accomplish our needs by first acknowledging our wants. So technically this boils down to our attitude about life.Here's an explanation of how we illusion ourselves into unhappiness by telling ourselves that we must accomplish our needs to be happy.Average mindset:I need _____.If I have _____ then I will get _____.Now let me point out the flaw with this mindset that creates unhappiness, by filling in the blanks.EX:I need a good job.If I have a good job then I will get Good money.If I get good money, I can pay my bills.If I can pay my bills then I can focus on Building my fence.If I Build my fence, then I can clean my house.If I clean my house... Etc. Etc.Truth is, the list can perpetually go on and on, til virtually forever. Yet at the same time we deny ourselves of happiness, when replacing our wants with needs.Really, what do we accomplish by accepting a need? Better attainability to accomplish other needs?All the while, by doing this we neglect and deny that what we WANT is happiness, and by doing so, refuse to obtain it.What if happiness was as simple to achieve, by easily reaching out in front of us and taking it? By enjoying all the little things in our life, such that we don't have to neglect and distrust that it is there, out hanging right before our blinded eyes?What if we went into all of our daily actions with an attitude of "This is what I want!", such that we can obtain our one and only true need. The need to be happy, and enjoy life.Adam, I believe that happiness is something that is achievable for everyone. You are not excluded. Get out there and go for your goals and your dreams. Now Come inside and let's continue our talk. We have cookies. :)