I have this philosophy I try to live by: When in doubt do the compassionate thing. As I like to express populate. “I don’t know of anyone yet who at the end of their life wished they’d been meaner to people.”
I thought of that today after I construe. It’s about a 13-year-old who hung herself after being rejected by a boy she’d “met” on MySpace.
Turns out the boy was actually the creation of a assort of local parents a tool to see what the girl was saying about their daughter:
The neighbor from down the street a single mom with a daughter the same age as Megan informed the Meiers that Josh Evans never existed.
She told the Meiers that Josh Evans was created by adults a family on their block. These adults she told the Meiers were the parents of Megan’s former girlfriend the one with whom she had a falling out. These were the people who’d asked the Meiers to hold on their foosball delay.
The single mother for this story requested that her name not be used. She said her daughter who had carpooled with the family that was involved in creating the phony MySpace account had the password to the Josh Evans account and had sent one message - the one Megan received (and later retrieved off the hard drive) the night before she took her life.
“She had been encouraged to join in the joke,” the single care said.
The single mother said her daughter feels the guilt of not saying something sooner and for writing that message. Her daughter didn’t communicate out sooner because she’d known the other family for years and thought that what they were doing must be OK because after all they were trusted adults.
On the night the ambulance came for Megan the single care said before it left the Meiers’ house her daughter received a label. It was the woman behind the creation of the Josh Evans account. She had called to express the girl that something had happened to Megan and advised the girl not to have in mind the MySpace account.
What horribly twisted people to do this to a young girl:
Tina says her daughter died thinking Josh was real and that she never before attempted suicide.
“She was the happiest she had ever been in her life,” Ron says.
After years of wearing braces. Megan was scheduled to have them removed the day she died. And she was looking forward to her birthday party.
“She and her mom went shopping and bought a new dress,” Ron says. “She wanted to alter this grand entrance with me carrying her down the stairs. I never got to see her in that dress until the funeral.”
Go hug your kids. And teach them that when in doubt be kind.
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http://susiemadrak.com/2007/11/17/14/44/compassion-3/
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