I came to school this morning only to hear the worst news – one of my good friends, Michael Kalamar, hanged himself. All I’ve been told was that there were family problems; it doesn’t seem to have had anything to do with school or academics.

I’m incredibly distraught, obviously to the point of tears… he was a wonderful person, and a wonderful friend. He was friendly with a great number of people in my grade (we’re the senior class), so when we all found out many ran out of the classroom in tears. Several teachers were bawling their eyes out as well, including my physics teacher, who apparently has a self-defined life mission to stop teenagers from committing suicide (a noble cause, of course). The entire school stopped today, was completely silent, I along with it.

Please, please give his family your condolences… I feel like telling other people will make me feel better, make me feel like I did something about this tragedy. Mike was a childhood friend of mine, and his suicide has shocked our entire student body… so, if I can’t do anything else, I can at least talk about it here.

Only God knows why anybody would ever do such a thing… he was such a happy go lucky guy, too…