Matthew Raking in strikes and spares, we were in the ninth frame. We only needed fifteen more points on the board, and it was all up to me. The bowling alley was quiet, waiting for my opponent to take his bowl. My phones ring bursted out into an old arcade tune, which in recognition told me I was receiving a call. It was the voice of an old home town friend back in Tulsa, Oklahoma, “He didn’t make it.” I dropped. I had never felt so much pain in one half of a second. It was excruciating to think I would never see his smile again, or hear him strum the strings on his guitar and ask me to sing for him. “You know you 're good right?,” he’d always claim after a song. I knew Matthew had been struggling. Every few days I would recieve a text, and not often I answered. Wouldn’t he …show more content…
Could I have been there for him? Maybe if I was, he wouldn’t have let the revolver turn. I’ll never know the answers to those questions, but others could. I want to solve the problems of suicide. Yes, that sounds crazy, but if I had any chance to save a life from itself, shouldn 't I? It’s a contingency to solve, but it’s better to try than do nothing. I want to make a program, that physically helps and seeks others that hide from help, through a new technological standpoint. Let’s be real, in today 's age, the government regulates everything online, even our personal data. But if they could run all that data they have consumed, maybe they could find an algorithm for men and women who show suicidal tendencies. It would take years to program, but we could do it. The question to my idea, is what do we do after we find people with those tendencies? How do we comfort them and persuade their neuro line that life is worth living? We talk to them, we find the core to their problem or problems. Taking everything into account, we do what we can in our power to fix the problems. We provide a safe place for them to stay where others will regulate, to prevent any suicidal