Wednesday, December 14, 2016
You never know who is hurting
When Jordin Tootoos brother Terence committed suicide it comes as a massive shock to the everyone including the people whom are and have read this book. There were absolutely no signs that Terence was hurting and that he was thinking about suicide. Terence was always the strong one he was the one whom took the heat for Jordin, sent there parents money, lied to there parents so they could stay down south and was the one whom helped and made Jordin tough. Terence was a true leader and a true protector of Jordin and hours before he committed suicide he was happy and out partying. Terence was also extremely tough and Jordin says that "Terence was a survivior." (page, 102). This situation just goes to show that you truly never know whom is hurting and on the edge of taking there own life. For example Jordin writes "I was with him until the bitter last hours before he took his life, and I never knew he was hurting inside because he never showed it."(page 100) Furthermore this quote also proves that Terence was too strong and because of this strength no one ever knew he was hurting inside and as a result he paid the ultimate price. The lesson to be learned from this tragedy is that you can never truly know whom his hurting as many people are too tough for there own good and are willing to take there weaknesses and pain to the grave.
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Even tho he never showed that he was hurting maybe he had everything bundled up in the inside of him because if no one thought he was hurting no one would sit down with him and ask if he is ok
ReplyDeletePeople in general pretend to feel an assortment of emotions. We are able to mask our emotions so that we are not causing others to believe that we are in pain or facing tough emotions. It is easier to keep our emotions to ourselves the explaining them to someone who we may feel reject us or make us feel like our emotions are meaningless. The problem with our society is that certain emotions are taboo to talk about. For men especially in a society it is highly frowned upon and told to be a sign of weakness when men share there emotions. For this reason alone men tend to keep their emotions in check because of society's sexism. The problem with keeping emotions in is that they can build up until they become a bundle of sel or outside destruction.
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