The System Failed

I wanted to speak on some funny shit but this stuff been on my mind so I thought I'd share. Check this article: http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1059479--disabled-pickering-boy-took-his-own-life-after-he-was-mugged-and-bullied?bn=1

11 years old, mom dead with cancer, a disease that will slowly but surely leave you paralyzed, and on top of that someone bashed your head in for a fucking Iphone. But it gets worse, the feds force you to testify against a 12 year old, who probably been hurt himself, will get out in 6 months and still beat your ass. This world just ain't fucking fair, at all. But like I always said, this shit is intrinsic. We know how to fix it we just choose not to. It's easy to view a story like this, feel sorry for the kid and move on with your life. It's harder to read a story like this, place yourself in the situation of the kid and wonder about the causality. The other day I was thinking about the whole ideology surrounding suicide. I consider myself blessed I've never contemplated it, ever but there are people who have. There are people who make that decision to end their lives, no matter the cost for permanent relief of temporary pain. But it goes deeper than that. People kill themselves everyday unable to cope, you could look at different causes like divorce or debt but I've always felt there's something underlying, something so catastrophic in their eyes death is the only way out.

An 11 year old kills himself though and we got a problem. But no one knows about it. You turn on the news and you'll hear shit about rising gas prices, the Michael Jackson trial, Nancy Grace on Dancing with the Stars. An 11 year old kills himself 3 weeks ago and this shit now becoming news because it's a slow news day. You're telling me the school system couldn't do anything for a kid who was robbed? No teacher couldn't see that this boy needed help. Dude said he'd rather die and the cops still asked him to testify. You go to school, you get your degree, you try to get a reasonable GPA and then you work in a cubicle but the system is flawed. For every success story there are thousands of stories like this which just get swept under the rug. A kid whose balls ain't even drop yet kills himself and not one motherfucker will do anything in an effort to change it. Those in a position of power will blame the kids who mugged him. The kid who mugged him were 12, you can't blame a 12 year old for this fucking mess. Where are the programs to help a kid who been getting bullied to the point of suicide. Where are the programs to help a kid whose mother just died?

"high-risk time for youth and teen suicide, which remains the second-leading cause of death for Canadians aged 10 to 24."

 People out here killing themselves but the schools won't mind so long as they get passing rates from kids doing provincial wide testing. Bullying won't ever stop but when you got 10 year olds offing themselves, this is a major problem that needs to be dealt with asap. But instead those in a position to make the changes won't. We live in a harsh society and everyday it gets colder because we're so consumed with shit that doesn't make a difference, we fail to see what's really there: scarred souls, blood, tears, and death. But fuck it, focusing on the trial of a pedophile that was drugged is much more important that children who never got the chance to live.