SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT |
Jacki Padgett
Everyone goes through hard times in their life, and when all hell is breaking loose, no matter how bad things seem, and no matter how much you think you can't go on, you have to go on. You have to push that extra bit to make your life good and look at the things going on around you and learn from everything.Hannah�s summer started out like any other. She had a new group of friends, and she was working a summer work program making excellent money. She was expecting the summer after her first year at college to be filled with lots of fun times and lots of memories...and it was. However, about mid-July her summer went to hell, and she isn�t sure life will ever be the same.On July 12, Hannah�s older sister, Julie, tried to commit suicide. It all came as quite a shock to her family; it seemed to have come out of nowhere. Hannah and her family found out things about Julie. Julie had been taking drugs and had slacked very much on being a mother to her children. All of these events had the family in an emotional hell.It hit Hannah very hard, harder than her parents believed it would. She was very angry at Julie and all that she was doing. Hannah had so many emotions going through her mind. This was her sister, who she was once very close to, and now it felt as if there was a gap so wide. Hannah didn�t know if it would ever be healed. Julie seemed to not care about anything, especially when it came to feeling bad for what she had done. This killed Hannah. She didn�t understand anything Julie had done. She got angry with God and sank into a depressed state. Hannah had a lot on her mind and honestly didn�t know how to deal with it. She didn�t even know what to say to her sister.After the incident, Julie was taken to a mental health facility to get help. After being there for four days and telling the doctors what they wanted to hear, Julie was released back to her family of two wonderful girls (ages one and three) and her wonderful husband. But it was too late. Julie had hit rock bottom. She had been working a no-good job, hanging out with no-good people, and getting into things she shouldn�t have been getting into. She was also cheating on her husband with a married man. Though she denied any wrongdoings, all hell soon broke loose.Julie packed her stuff and walked out of her house right in front of her beautiful daughters. Julie is now living with a friend. She and her husband have filed for divorce. To Hannah, it isn�t over. All this is something she can�t just forgive, forget and move on from. It has left deep wounds. Hannah knows that things won�t ever be the same between her and Julie, and that saddens her more than her family knows. |
Jacki Padgett is a staff writer. This is her second year on the SMP staff. She is a journalism major at the Floyd campus of GHC. She hopes to transfer to Georgia Southern to major in entertainment magazine journalism and minor in Public Relations (PR). In her free time, she enjoys writing, making new friends and doing PR work for the local band Cranksinatra.