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so the girl who sits in front of me and to the left, and who never knows the answers because she spends all her time drawing cartoons in her notebook or sleeping through class, fell (jumped?) off an overpass last night.
she's okay. that's the first thing. she broke her wrist and needs some surgery on her jaw, i guess, is what one of the other kids told me, but -- all things considered -- she wasn't badly hurt. (it's not a very high bridge; maybe about the height of a third-storey window.) the police are treating it as an accident, at least for now. i guess she was by herself, so there's no chance she was pushed, but they wanted to talk to the other folks who live in the hall with her (around half the class lives in this language house) about whether she may have been attempting suicide. and the thing is, with this kid, it's hard to say. it's possible; or it's possible she was sitting on the guardrail, or (who knows) trying to walk the guardrail, and really did lose her balance; or it's possible that she jumped on purpose but without any specific self-destructive intent -- like, she looked over the edge and thought, i wonder what it would be like if i fell.
she's okay. that's the first thing. she broke her wrist and needs some surgery on her jaw, i guess, is what one of the other kids told me, but -- all things considered -- she wasn't badly hurt. (it's not a very high bridge; maybe about the height of a third-storey window.) the police are treating it as an accident, at least for now. i guess she was by herself, so there's no chance she was pushed, but they wanted to talk to the other folks who live in the hall with her (around half the class lives in this language house) about whether she may have been attempting suicide. and the thing is, with this kid, it's hard to say. it's possible; or it's possible she was sitting on the guardrail, or (who knows) trying to walk the guardrail, and really did lose her balance; or it's possible that she jumped on purpose but without any specific self-destructive intent -- like, she looked over the edge and thought, i wonder what it would be like if i fell.
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Reminds me of the millions of movies where they have the inevitable scene of drunk people screwing around on a bridge. You know one of them is going to fall, so you spend the whole scene waiting for it. I'm specifically thinking of Saturday Night Fever at the moment.
I don't know her, but I'm glad she's okay.
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BTDT (well, the wondering, not the actual falling). Bad headspace to be in, having those thoughts come up...
...also bad, knowing from physics class how many stories one generally has to be falling from to guarantee death (rather than broken bones or paralysis).