In the Background

I am sure most people have seen this commercial; it became pretty popular a couple weeks ago, but I would like to bring attention to it again. Its a commercial about a boy named Evan and how he began this relationship with the person writing him on the desk in the library. During the entire commercial we watch Evan and how he is. Then at the end of the commercial, Evan finally meets the girl that he was writing with, but while they are talking, you see a figure in the background open the gym door and pull out a gun. Then, the entire commercial plays over again, except showing us what's happening behind Evan, and we see a boy his age who is depressed and is planning to shoot the school.
The commercial is bringing attention to us that we need to be aware of the signs of a school shooter, and even depressed kids in general. In high school it gets hard. You begin to see some people that you know slip into bad things, you may even begin to as well. It's just a big emotional time for most students this age.
We need to be aware of the pain people are going through and do our best not to make it worse and even try to prevent it. You cannot just go making fun of people and then making up the excuse that it is "just a joke", because you can still really hurt someone.
We, as teenagers, don't really care about anyone but ourselves; it isn't even just teenagers, it is people in general. We are born selfish, we want what we want. That doesn't mean that we have to go out of our way to make someone's life hell. We should be going out of our way to reach out to people to see if you can help and sometimes it's hard, but we should still try.
We should all be more aware of the people around us, because sometimes, the biggest smile can be hiding someone who's in horrible pain.