Don't Criticize

You really don't know whats going on in someone else's life, when you say something.

For example, I have a friend who gets awful grades, and sleeps all the time in class. You'd never know that as a junior in high school, he works 35 hours a week.

I have another very close friend of mine who I love dearly, and he dropped out of high school his junior year... but you'd never know that he dropped out to support his family because his father is on disability and his mother couldn't find any better jobs because she doesn't have a degree.

One of my best friends in the entire world is an extremely talented gymnast and just a wonderful person in general, and you'd never know that she forgets just how beautiful she is sometimes... and when you joke that someone's fat... it doesn't help. She's FAR from fat, she's perfect, but when people make jokes, they don't know.

There seems to be a common joke that this homework is so hard, that it makes people want to shoot themselves in the head. Well, I've heard this said to a girl whose mother committed suicide by a gunshot to the head.

People really forget just how hard life is for some people, and what they've been through. I hate that people think its okay to call anyone fat or stupid or lazy, regardless of if its true or not. You never know what's going on in someones life.