A few days ago a friend and I were going through an old junior high yearbook. In the process of remembering old times I asked my friend what ever happened to this certain classmate. I was not friends with this classmate, however his face always stood out in the yearbook. My friend said that the classmate had committed suicide when he was a sophomore in high school. I believe he took his own life due to a number of problems in his life. But primarily it was because his girlfriend did not want to make their relationship more serious. It’s sad. While I was not friends with him, the news of his death did have an impact on me. Looking back on it I wonder if there was anything that could have been done to make this person not see suicide as a way out. In the junior high yearbook the pictures show him in a couple of clubs. His body position in those pictures seem to indicate that he was uncomfortable. He was never smiling. Sure, junior high can be a rough experience for anybody, but I have to wonder if his experience was even worse.