How Do We Miss The Suicides?
I just don’t get it. How can you miss that a kid’s suicidal? But then I think of all the things that I don’t – or can’t – see as a parent, even when it’s staring me in the eye. Of course, my heart breaks for the parents and sister of Bartlomiej “Bart” Palosz. But it breaks even more for Bart. Bullying is said to be a factor in this tragic death. I think of the darkness this poor young man must have lived in, the shadow limiting his life. Maybe he put on a brave front. Maybe, like my son, he pretended all was well when it wasn’t. Didn’t anybody see this boy’s pain? I didn’t know Bart but I feel his death in my heart, maybe because my own son is only three years younger, and I so wish I could have been his friend. I want time to go backwards, for someone to have reached out to Bart in a class or at lunch, to have shown him he was loved and wanted and worth something. I, too, have struggled with depression and though I’ve never co...