Before getting into the details of this story, i’ve got to announce to all those struggling: It gets better when you MAKE it get better. if youre in a toxic environment – GET OUT. if you absolutely cant, then use perspective and see the bigger picture and prepare for when you CAN.
If soldiers in Nazi prison camps, murderers in Alcatraz and Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption can spend years behind bars of iron in environments of hate, abuse and despair and keep it together enough to plot their eventual escape one day then YOU can too while waiting things out behind your bars of suburbia and judgementalism.
One month after posting a video testifying how much better life gets for gay people as they grow up, 19-year-old Eric James Borges – known as EricJames among his friends – took his own life for unknown reasons.
“It gets better” is a campaign designed to reassure gay youths who are struggling with acceptance that it won’t always be that way and to inspire them to soldier on.
Poignantly, given the circumstances of his death, Borges ends his video with a message of hope and encouragement, saying: ‘You have an entire life fit to burst with opportunities ahead of you. Don’t ever give up, and don’t ever for one second think that you’re not a valuable and beautiful contribution to this world.’
The caption for the video:
“It Gets Better Campaign” by EricJames Borges from Visalia, CA. My story is always hard to tell, even in a simplistic condensed form, but, “Many LGBT youth can’t picture what their lives might be like as openly gay adults. They can’t imagine a future for themselves. So let’s show them what our lives are like, let’s show them what the future may hold in store for them.” -ItGetsBetter.org
AGAIN: If you’re in an environment that is killing you – get OUT! If you have no possible way to get out or even if you’re just too broken to do what it takes to get out immediately then at MINIMUM stay internally strong and weather the storm by plotting your escape.
“Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to do. We’re going to devote our energies to sports and gardening, all the cultural pursuits as far as they’re concerned. In fact, we’re going to put the goons to sleep. Meanwhile, we dig.” – the Great Escape (movie)
Another video he made:
Hello I’m so sadden that people think to exspress their worpt opinion to any one none of us should juge another god did not give any of us that right .how can any one sleep after putting another human down so bad that they’ed kill selfs ,to let are kids torcher another kid is sicking ,your kids folio.g no shame knowing some one killed them self after they torched them is desturding ,what are you as rolomodels to these kids teaching, teaching them god love you for helping him clean the world of bad people ,are you crazy what their doing they will have to answer to. are creater .their sin is bad very bad it make are god cry see such hate as we all know god made this world and us all their for he made them too. what stupedness to teach your kids to be ugly inside ,what fu**** monsters you are to. not fill pain for another human in pain ..GOD IS WATCHING YOU DESTROY CHILDREN HE INTRUSTED YOU WITH ,SHAME ON YOU ALL . i florgiver these kids ,each of them for they know not what they do …but you adult
May you be juged. as harishly as you tought these kids
He lent you to juge …hate is sin ,it hurting are whole world see the,news ..that your teachings ,death to us all. I’m so sorry to every one who loved him ,to know about him is for me to loved him …love him i do. Till i can no longer think from age on my own ,he’s in my heart always i cry for your lost as it is great .