esthersyute | “Eight years ago, a childhood friend of mine committed suicide because she felt like she was a burden on her friends and family. She had never expressed this to me or her parents because she lacked the communication tools to get that across. And quite honestly we probably didn’t check in enough. And it was tough dealing with her passing. But before her death, she wrote letters to both parents and myself detailing her battle with depression and how it’s been crippling. It was so tough reading that and realizing I never noticed this when she was around. But in a weird way, it felt okay to know she wasn’t suffering anymore. That definitely was a lesson to me that I should check in with my friends as regularly as possible, even if it’s just to say hi. So no one ever feels alone like she did.” #wspd #anotherdaywithyou #twloha