Thank you ((Alffe)).

Our campus' suicides have dropped some. Counselors, professors, everyone tries to help these young students under pressure. During my 22 years here, I've always tried to give a kind word to a student who is openly distressed. It's amazing the number I have seen just sitting alone somewhere, trying to stifle sobs. I'll stop and talk with them and try to coax them to talk about it and direct them to the best places for help. And have gotten a lot of smiles and some hugs in return.

I had an interesting professor when I went to university in my early 30s. He was a quirk of a guy who taught Nonverbal Communication, my favorite class of all. His opinion was that that when freshman came to college, they should be instructed to go out in the world and experience it for the first year, live life, and then come back ready for school, lol. So many aren't completely prepared for student life, being away from home, all of the pressures of being out on their own.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Thank you for sharing dear heart.