A Friend In Need

I have helped my friends many times and they have helped me many times it’s just what friends do for each other. The biggest thing I have done to help my friends is for sure talking some of them out of suicide. It’s hard to do but if you truly care about someone you cannot let them do that to themselves and the people that care about them. Suicide under absolutely any circumstances is not worth it everything happens for a reason and everything will always get better. It doesn’t just end the problem for yourself if you do it but it makes an even bigger problem for the people that love you even when people are not close to you it effects them as well its weird how it affects so many people but it does the bottom line is that it’s just not worth it ever. Both of the two times I have talked someone out of suicide it was over the dumbest of reasons over a break up. They made a mistake in the relationship which caused a break up and thought that it would never get better which it always will. Wanting to commit suicide over a break up is horrible it took two all nighters to do it but i talked both of them out of it

A time someone helped me was junior year my friend helped me put myself into gear and helped me get a lot of school work done he was over everyday after school and did work with me. I had a big jump in the spring semester when I finished all of my classes compared to the year before he showed me how to the work I needed to do and showed me ways to make it easier rather than harder for myself. We would go to my house after school toa few hours of homework take a break and go bridge jumping or fishing for an hour or even just drive around come back to my house around dark and or more until 9 to 10ish and start it all over again for the last two weeks of school it just made it less stressful and a lot easier for me. All anyone truly needs in life is good friends.

Another time I helped a friend is recently actually him and his family were having a hard time so I helped them out did stuff around the house with his dad. I bought him food and gave him money for gas when he needed it it’s hard to watch one of your friends struggle and there family struggle then a month ago or so his mom and dad ended up getting a divorce and that took a big toll on him. And all of his family it was really bad timing right before christmas there was an affair it was just the worst thing a family could go through it was awful but now things are better but still a touchy subject.

A few summers ago I think it was the summer after sophomore year and my brother in law asked me if I wanted to go to work with him one day that week and I couldn’t say no to that. He is a loberstemen from baileys island grew up there and still lives on the house he grew up in has his own boat. He has a two minute commute to work everyday when its nice out in the summer he will even ride his dirt bike down to the wharf. I went in august when it was nice and hot it ended up being 95 on the water and I was next to the exhaust pipe banding lobsters. When we got to the wharf it was 4:30 in the morning bought bait and gas started shoveling  bait into totes and carried them in put them in the boat it was the thickest fog i have ever seen you couldn’t even see the bow of the boat and it was rough in the morning six foot breakers and once we got out of the cove he told me if i’m going to get sea sick get ready because this is when it’s going to be if you’re going to but I made it without getting sick at all. He showed me how to band the lobsters and showed me all the cool stuff that came up in the traps the coolest thing was a wolf fish it looked like the head of a human and the body of an eal it was the weirdest thing and I also got to bring home a bunch of crabs and I made crab cakes but he needed help that day on the boat and i helped him he has helped me fix my sled and brought me to florida he has done a lot to help our family.

Just yesterday me and my buddy went into town and got oil to change the oil in his car and got chinese food on the way home and he paid for me so after i offered to help him split 2 cords of wood and change the oil in his car the wood took about 3 hours to do we had to cut the trees down drag them out of the woods with a bobcat then we had to cut them into pieces and then split them into pieces then stack them and they weren’t small 12 inch wide pieces of wood these were like 80 foot tall pines like 3 feet at the base of the trees. But the oil change wasn’t to bad it only took 20 minutes to do it. These are just what friends and family do for each other when either one of you need help you get up and help ones you care about. Photo by ::: M @ X ::: on Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND