Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block? Of course I can explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block. I'm not a bloody idiot. I can explain it because it wasn't inexplicable: It was a logical decision, the product of proper thought. It wasn't even very serious thought, either. I don't mean it was whimsical - I just mean that it wasn't terribly complicated, or agonized. Put it this way: Say you were, I don't know, an associate of Dave Wong's Restuarant. And you'd been thinking of emigrating, and then you were offered the job of working for Hershey's chef in Pennsylvania. Well, even thought it's a pretty straightforward decision, you'd still have to think for a bit, wouldn't you? You'd at least have to work out whether you could bear to move, whether you could leave your friends and colleagues behind, whether you could uproot your parents. You might sit down with a bit of paper and draw up a list of pros and cons. You know:

Cons: leaving my parents, friends, golf club

Pros: Hershey's dessert everyday, better air quality, a new way of life, money, better education, etc.

It's no contest, is it? The golf club? Give me a break. Obviously your parents give you pause for thought, but that's all it is - a pause, and a brief one, too. You'd be on the phone to the travel agent's within ten minutes.

Well, that was me. There simply weren't enough regrets, and lots and lots of reason to jump. The only things on my "cons" list were the friends, I didn't want to leave them, and I don't play golf. Suicide was my Hershey's opportunity. And I say that with no offense to the good people of Pennsylvania intended.
Unknown "Sally :)" Adventurous - 16 years, 10 months, 13 days ago

Once upon a time, in a land far far away... a banana fell from the sky. That banana became a banana peel and the rest of it was digested in your stomach. Goddamn it. How do I taste?
Unknown "Sally :)" Adventurous - 16 years, 11 months, 27 days ago