The Intriguing Man Who Jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge and Was Saved by a Sea Lion

This advice will make you rethink your life.

Tim Denning

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Image Credit: Kevin Hines

All he wanted was to be seen that day.

He got on the bus and sat at the very back. As he sat there, his eyes became a waterfall of tears. The desperate thought going through his mind was a yearning for one person on that bus to say “are you okay?”

The bus came to the end of the line. He walked one final lap of the bus and then arrived next to the bus driver. Desperately inside he was hoping the bus driver would notice something was wrong… that he would notice his pain, without him having to open his mouth.

One last hope. His world came crashing down.

“Come on kid, get off the bus. I got to go.”

It was the last stop.

A guy to the left pointed at the 19-year-old. He said to the person on his left, “what the hell is wrong with that kid?” while smiling.

The young man heard those words. His bad day got worse. People were not only blind to his cries for help, but they took his situation and made fun of it.

“Nobody cares — that’s it,” he thought to himself quietly as he stepped off the bus one last time.

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