Hey there. It didn't feel right releasing a new episode right now. Sometimes there are more pressing things...and my immediate mission is to save a life. Hope you guys enjoy this one, please share it with anyone you feel like needs to hear the message.
I love you and I mean that.
-Jai
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DIRECT TRANSCRIPT:
This is a message to every student & community member that lives on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus; to every parent of a student that lives on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus; to every person who is directly or indirectly affected by the loss of life in our community:
Somewhere along the line, you were failed. You were overlooked or underestimated or turned away when you most needed help. I can neither absolve nor blame any university for the culture and mental toxicity that swims through our campus.
But I must sound an alarm. There are human beings...babies...people who touched more lives than we could ever count...people who are willing to end their life instead of continue on with the one they currently are in.
I'm not interested in asking a university to show that they care about the lives they've been entrusted with. I mean, I'm no expert, but I feel like any number of deaths at any point on a college campus will rock a community to its core. It should rock us, right?
All I am qualified and am interested in saying to you is this: I am listening to you. I want to hear about all of this pain you're carrying inside of yourself. This pain that is capable of moving you over ledges and out of our lives.
And there are other people who want to hear you too! I know it because I have experienced it personally. I've tangoed with mortality a time or two, and each time I have learned that there are people who really want my energy around.
What do you need? How is all of this making you feel?
I understand the assumption that the authorities we are told to trust have essentially disregarded our very life and value. That's what it looks like from the outside.
But you know what? Fuck 'em. We don't have time to try and understand this embarrassing display of leadership right now. There are literally lives on the line right now. Do you care about saving a life? Do you need your life saved?
I don't have all the answers for you, I cannot prevent you from feeling these terrible feelings. But I can tell you right now, I see you and I understand that none of this has been easy. I see your discomfort, and I commend your hard work.
I don't have all the answers for you, I cannot prevent you from feeling these terrible feelings. But I can tell you right now, I see you and I understand that none of this has been easy. I see your discomfort, and I commend your hard work.
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