Helping Your Friends Realize Their True Value.

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Making sure your friends know that they are important to you can save a life. You hear all over the news nowadays how some teenager has tried to commit suicide or succeeded. Helping your friends realize their true value in this world is one of the best things you can do to make them see that ending their life is not the right thing to do. There are many ways to encourage your friends to do things that they love so they can find out why they were put onto this world. People may think just because we are so young that we shouldn’t be thinking about our future. Assisting your friends to find things they would love to do when they’re older makes them look forward to their future, even though times now are tough. Do activities with them and include them into a lot of things you do. Making them feel wanted is a really good way to make them happy. And who knows… you may even find their dream job. Doing all these things with your friends may even boost your self esteem, knowing that you helped someone realize their true potential in life would be a proud moment. Now that you are doing things with them you can also do things that don’t necessarily mean you have to be with them, but just things you do that are about them. For example you could ask them questions. You could give them a call or even text them but either way you are showing them that you care about them. Also talk to them about yourself. I know that we normally don’t talk about our personal lives because we don’t want to be vulnerable. But in this case show them that you can trust them. Be sure to tell them that you appreciate when they help you! Then they will be able to trust you and they will to talk to you about problems in their life. Always keep an open mind. If they tell you something disturbing or something that is too graphic just be encouraging towards them and remind them that you are always
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