A year or two ago, This Troper's friend was pretty depressed, but he said he wasn't considering suicide. His exact reason was: "Why hurt yourself when you can hurt others?". Just recently, he told me he ''was'' contemplating suicide, so I repeated those words to him. He was pretty surprised to find that ''he'' was the one who said that, but he took his own advice.

When this troper was in middle school, the guy she had a crush on was expelled after getting into a fight and getting caught by a teacher. During his last day of school, this troper contemplated confessing her feelings to him, but in the end decided against it upon seeing the line of girls who were confessing to him too, as well as noting that her feelings for him were not that strong, and that she would probably never see him again anyway. So with that thought in mind she simply bid him farewell. Three years later, now on high school, an old acquaintance from middle school broke her the news that his old crush had recently died on a car accident. This troper felt both sad and surprised to realize that, true to her own words, she would never ever see him again.