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The GE's in full steam now, and if you know me personally you'd know how insanely dedicated I am to following it (and my opposition support). I'll make a fuss and a million posts on it later, I will, but for now, there are greater issues than the next ruling party, or the number of seats the PAP loses, and my future career.

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Today, as I was going home from violin class, I dropped a coin in the train. Now my bag was propped onto my violin, and so it was quite difficult for me to move. Just as well, there was this girl, probably 14 or 15 coming home from school. She pointed out that I dropped my coin, and seeing it was difficult for me to retrieve it, she told me she'd pick it up for me. It wasn't a "I'll pick it up for you", it was a very sweet, "you just stay there let me do it!!". And from what I heard of her conversation with her other friend, it was evident she's a really sweet girl who earnestly wants to help her friend out.

The problem is this: Her wrist was slit. Multiple times.

Now that's scary. It saddened me the entire journey home. I had no idea what was going on in her life, and to be honest, I have been exposed to stories of this in a while. It brought me back to reality.

Now society, what's wrong with you?

You take these innocent minds and twist them. You make them feel worthless and valueless. They harm themselves to feel good. How perverse is that. You rob them of their self confidence, and soon their identity. You fault them for every wrong thing in their life, even if they had nothing to do with it. They'll never be good enough for you. You take these hearts of love and turn them cold as ice. You convince them they're of zero potential, you make them feel pathetic. They live to please everybody, but they never do. They live for everyone but themselves. What did these young souls do to deserve that?

Nothing.

God bless her, and everyone out there hurting. There is a hope that never fails, things do get better. Please believe that.