twloha...

I've been using twitter for awhile now... sometimes more often than others but there are definitely days when I feel like it helps keep me "in the know." When I don't have time to stalk all of my favorite web sites, twitter is updating me on all of the important news not to mention blessing me with the occasional humorous tweet.

Earlier today, the organization To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) tweeted: "Today is National Survivors of Suicide Day. To everyone that has lost someone they love, we stand with you today. We join you to remember and to say that their story matters and your story matters. You are not alone today."

I have lost a few people in my life from suicide and I am definitely remembering them today, but I am also thinking about everyone else who has lost someone. TWLOHA founder, Jamie Tworkowski, posted a blog today in honor of National Survivors of Suicide Day with some background about Zeke. Zeke committed suicide in January of 2006 and his girlfriend Nicole actually posted a blog of her own today with her own thoughts.

Sometimes it doesn't seem relevant until it happens to us. Nicole mentions, "Someone once told me that people that complete suicide are selfish - I’m not sure I agree.  Once someone is gone, it is easy to contemplate what they were thinking, and only think about the mess they left you with, and the struggles ahead.  But isn’t that selfish?  I mean this person just took their own life - I can’t imagine how they came to that conclusion, but I can only believe and hope it was not an easy one.  I quickly learned that I was the selfish one......I was so obsessed with why he chose to do this to me, but soon realized that he did this to himself; it was not about me.  That is hard to accept."

Here's to remembering... here's to accepting... here's to today.