Every year on March 8, millions of women and men around the world celebrate International Women's Day. This day is an ideal opportunity to reflect on the progress made to advance women's equality, to assess the challenges facing women in contemporary society and to consider future steps to enhance the status of women and, of course, to celebrate the gains made in these areas.
Women on all continents often divided by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences come together to celebrate International Women's Day. It is a celebration of ordinary women as makers of history.


Millions of women throughout the world live in conditions of abject deprivation of, and attacks against, their fundamental human rights for no other reason than that they are women. Abuses against women are relentless, systematic, and widely tolerated, if not explicitly condoned. Violence and discrimination against women are global social epidemics, notwithstanding the very real progress of the international women's human rights movement in identifying, raising awareness about, and challenging impunity for women's human rights violations.

March 8 is International Womans Day, Although women are still mistreated and disrespected we have come a long way since the begining. We should be proud to be woman always but March 8 we should be especially proud to be women.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Well she seemed all right by dawns early light
Though she looked a little worried and weak
She tried to pretend she wasn't drinkin' again
But daddy left the proof on her cheek
And I was only eight years old that summer
And I always seemed to be in the way
So I took myself down to the fair in town
On Independence Day

Well word gets around in a small, small town
They said he was a dangerous man
Mama was proud and she stood her ground
But she knew she was on the losin' end
Some folks whispered and some folks talked
But everybody looked the other way
And when time ran out there was no one about
On Independence Day
Let freedom ring, Let the white dove sing
Let the whole world know that today is a day of reckoning
Let the weak be strong, let the right be wrong
Roll the stone away, let the guilty pay
It's Independence Day

Well she lit up the sky that fourth of July
By the time that the firemen come
They just put out the flames, and took down some names
And sent me to the county home
Now I ain't sayin' it's right or it's wrong
But maybe its the only way
Talk about your revolution
It's Independence Day

Another teenage suicide....
What a tragedy!
To see such vibrant young potential
Just die.

If I could but have held them in my arms of care,
Brushed away the dark, dank clouds of hopelessness,
And moved them with some pure impassioned prayer:
O, dear one, I know you're hurting bad,
And prob'ly just need someone who will understand.

Life's wounds run deep,
But there below our surface waved emotions,
They contact inner strength, no more asleep,
And blending with the currents of compassion,
Will buoy you up to chart uncharted seas.

You may be different from the rest,
But that's what makes you special,
Your talents are unique and precious,
Enough to help you reach your crest.
Don't throw it all away!
We need you.

Suicide....a word that scares everyone including myself.
I went through a stage in my life where I thought there was nothing left for me, no one that cared, no one that understood. Did I try to commit suicide...honestly I don't no.
How many times do you hear parents say "he seemed happy, like there was nothing wrong, I don't understand why this happened". Then you take a look at the childs life...parents divorcd, father abusive, mother never home etc etc. Then it becomes clear.
And somestimes it has absolutely nothing to do with the family or the friends, sometimes the person has a serious form of depression. But, if this is the case, most of the time someone knows about it...a councellor, a friend, or a parent.
Iam here to say that everybody needs to feel loved, there is not one human being on this earth that does not long for the touch of someone or long to be loved by someone.
So when you come across someone walking down the street and you smile at them,you mite have just saved there lives.
I remember a story I heard a long time ago about a girl, she was about 14 yrs old, she moved to a new school because her parents got divorced. When she started this school everybody teased her because she was poor and could not afford to wear the hotest trends...everyday for 3 mths they would throw things at her while she walked down the hall. Everyday she went home to a mother that was full of anger, everytime she did something wrong her mom would yell or slap her. So, finally fed up with all of the torture she decided that the next day after school she would not go home....and that she would never go home, or go to school....she was going to walk down to the bridge over the highway and.....jump off. Well the next day as she started her regular root home, a girl her age walked up to her, and started talking to her, and instead of going to the bridge that night....she went to her new friends house.
all it takes is a simple smile....thats the least you could...people are so cruel.....so unbelievably cruel.....all that everyone in this world wants is love....just plain and simple love.