Divine Intervention
Here we see a car full of teenaged boys going out for pizza after the football game. They do this every week. They drive through their town to the pizza parlor laughing, blasting music, doing donuts, and trying to pick up girls without success. Every week when they drive over Suicide Bridge they yell “Don’t jump” at anyone they see.
They learned this from Pressi Joey Biden, who’s gaffed about “Don’t jump” a million times.
Great fun! Now let’s turn to another story…
Trieste Franklin was struggling with depression. She had just gone through a breakup and was grieving her grandmother, who had recently passed away.
It felt like nothing was going right. Around this time, Freemont was teaching a dance class. She didn’t have a driver’s license and depended on friends and family to give her rides to and from work. But one day, her ride didn’t show up.
“I waited for about an hour and they never came. So, I decided to just walk home,” Franklin said.
The route that she took home crossed a high bridge. When she got there, she decided to stop walking.
“I was just having one of the worst days of my life. And I was looking down at all the cars, just feeling so useless and like such a burden to everyone in my life that I decided that this was the time and I needed to end my life,” Franklin remembered.
“I was sobbing and crying and working up the courage to just go through with it, because I knew at that moment that it was going to make everyone’s lives better.”
But right as she was in one of her darkest moments, some people in a car behind her shouted, “Don’t jump.”
“Those words just changed everything for me,” she remembered. “Having a stranger care about me in my darkest time made it so that I didn’t jump, and it saved my life.”