something to live for

today i found out a boy committed suicide. i don't much at all about him, except that he had not yet graduated from high school. that there is enough, enough to know he had so much left. a young boy so desperate for an escape for an end to his pain to end it all. all because no one told him. he didn't know how special he was, he didn't know the world needed him. what it was he needed to hear or whatever he was looking for he never found it. that saddest part is how many people young and old are likely to end up this way. and everyone of them just as valuable. yet in the overwhelming brokenness of the world so many people are forgotten. and then this tragedy shakes us all and we swear to love more and reach out and open our hearts to the broken, and then it fades. i feel sad and i feel broken, i feel nothing compared to what he was feeling, and this feeling will pass but that boy that irreplaceable impossible to repeat miracle is gone forever. never having the opportunity to feel free from his pain.