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We are all just statistics in this world, aren't we?

Think of it: Tonight, someone is out there committing suicide and in the morning, that person is just going to be another statistic. There are millions of children who starve each week and in the end, they're all just counted as another statistic. Cutters, Burners, Self-injurers, we are all just another statistic. The world counts us and figures out who has come from a tragic home, who has had a traumatizing past, which ones of us have had bad relationships, or who just feel like it.

They don't do or feel anything, they just stick us into categories. There are categories for teenagers who self-injure, adults who self-injure, children who are starving, elders who are starving.. etc. Anything that ever happens in the world is all just a statistic!

Us, the individuals who make the world what it is, don't matter in the overall scheme of society and government, we're just numbers to them. It's up to us to make the most of our situations and to make our individuality matter.

As of February, 2008, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, they found that 17.6% of teenagers self-injure. With girls twice as more likely to harm themselves than boys.

Seriously, what's with all the numbers? I, for one, am sick of being just another number on their boards. I don't want to be the 1 person in 6 others to suffer from self-injury, I want to be the 1 in 6 to survive! I no longer want to be another number, I want to be an individual. An individual with a voice.

For, without a voice, we are just another brick in the wall.