Listen up, kids: Making life-altering decisions based on things that happened (or are happening) to you in high school is ridiculous. The ultimate example of this is suicide. Chances are that whatever is making you so miserable is not as awful and certainly not as insurmountable as you're making it inside your head. If you're in a place where people are treating you badly, try moving somewhere else. Whatever problems you are facing, I guarantee that living in the wrong sort of place will compound them immensely.
Up until now you've had to live wherever your parents took you, but guess what? Now you can go anywhere. Not only can you go anywhere in this large, beautiful and varied country of ours, but since you are in possession of a US passport, you can also pretty much go wherever in the world you would like to. If it's a choice between doing yourself in and getting on a bus and taking a chance in some new city, take the chance. What's the worst that could happen? You can't get any more unhappy that you are already, and you've already decided that you're willing to die, so you have nothing to lose. You are free. Why relinquish that?
