death wish

I've been thinking (worrying?) a lot lately about the people in my life who have long-standing death wishes. I stumbled on this blog post this morning, and it rang a lot of bells for me.

How does one hope for people who don't hope for themselves? The blogger aptly describes my own struggle: "Most of the time we avoid them because they seem to be a living, breathing black hole for even the joy in your own life."

Avoidance hardly seems the path towards bold love; but at the same time...