Decision #247: The Red Pill

Hero Music Video Link

So New Year's day was about 3 weeks ago and I am still talking about the resolutions. I know I'm a little late but I thought I would share. I was thinking about Superchic[k] the other day while watching a Rob Bell video and I started to think about my decisions lately. I began to start thinking about how all of our decisions are wathced by other people and we have to be careful of what we do.


It's funny how everything we do can really shape the lives of other people. I know that there are a whole lot worse troubles out there but there are people in our schools right now who actually have lives depending on us. Superchic[k] brought a couple of examples during they're song "Hero."


In their first verse they talked about a young boy who was made fun of and how our hurtful actions toward him could cause him to jump off the edge (literally and emotionally). Teenagers are really vurnerable, especially when they are just starting off they're social careers and to shatter any sense they had of the world is horrible. So not hurting people is a great thing to do and probably really easy to avoid. But there is more. In the second verse Superchic[k] talks about a young girl who cuts herself and starts taking drugs to relieve some sort of pain. Nobody does or says anything about it. And because nobody says anything to her she will continue inflicting pain on herself, so doing nothing is bad too. In fact, this may prove to be more difficult than just avoiding hurting others.

And none of this is fake either. You know that any high school you step into these days there are the silent type of people who end up hurting themselves and nobody is stopping them. I can't come up with a statistic, but I do know that they're are a lot of teen suicided and I can bet my money and my life that the majority of those could be saved if someone were to talk to them.


In the Red Pill Remix of this song Superchic[k] included a true story of a young boy who was constantly taunted by his classmates, and he is only in 8th grade thinking about suicide. Eventually one day he goes home and grabs his dad's gun and shoots himself. And that's it.


Except that's not it. Superchic[k] also stated that it was a bigger problem for all of us to just watch all of this happen and not even try to stop it. The book of James said that if we know about good and do not do it, it is sin. Well this is just like that. We can't just sit back and let these things happen we need to make a voice and stop this nonsense, no matter what the odds are.


The story does get better though. You remember that girl who cut herself? Well, she ends up finally taking a step up and she stops these hurtful action. That's the kind of decision that shows strength, courage, and confidence, and we label that person a hero.


Another person is also mentioned in this awesome song. He is the kind of person who makes the right decisions in a situation, who doesn't need his parent's guidence any longer but still takes it. He is the role model for his 9 yr old brother and everybody watches what he does. My favorite lyric is when they say "When he makes a choice he changes a nine-year-old's life." Because it's true we change people's lives with what we do. He is also a hero.


And I think that is my New Year's Resolution this year. I want to watch my decisions and also make postivie uplifting ones. I want to change someone else's life and I want to be a hero.