"I know what conscience is, to begin with. It is not what you told me it was. It is the divinest thing in us. Don't sneer at it, Harry, any more - at least not before me. I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous." Oscar Wilde (The Picture Of Dorian Gray)

9.7.10

SOCIALSTANDARDS.

Isn´t life just a game of forgetting that we play? We all make mistakes and have mistakes made against us. But how many people don´t just wrap those mistakes up and keep going? It´s the ones who don´t that we often forget, and when we do remember them, it´s always in a bad way.
It is more socially acceptable to say that your sister or friend has died of AIDS or cancer, than as a result of an eating disorder or depression. Why?
A depression kills just as slowly and sneakily as one of the other aforementioned diseases. It´s NOT any less common, than everyone thinks it is, it´s just a taboo, a sign of so-called weakness.

´That girl has cancer.´
´What a shame, she´s so young, and such a beautiful person. What did she do to deserve cancer?´
VS.
´That boy committed suicide.´
´He probably did it as an act for attention and the situation got out of control.´

Well, first of all, why would anyone want any attention from YOU, you horrid person? And second of all, what did HE do to deserve a miserable life, followed by a miserable death?
Ever thought of the answer to THAT?

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