Emo. Trouble. Slacker. ASBO.
Do you know what I see? I see a 15 year old boy with a great future ahead of him.
Ricky plays rugby for Chesterfield Rugby Club U16s and is actually very talented. He gets good grades in school, though he could do better if he studied harder (just like his mother!). He is singing with a band, currently nameless but they're writing and practicing.
Okay, he isn't a Stepford Child. He doesn't get along with his younger brother a lot of the time, his room looks like a science project gone wrong and he doesn't always do his homework. He is a teenager, after all.
But he is ambitious, not only with his rugby and the band but also with a future career. He wants to go to university to study psychology so he can become a counsellor for teenagers. This is because he also has compassion for other people.
Imagine just how proud I was to see the time and effort Ricky put into a YouTube video, with the help of his friends, for World Suicide Awareness Day. Wow. Just wow.
The purpose of this blog post is to reaffirm the old saying: you can't judge a book by its cover. If you see a strangely dressed, black haired teenager, don't assume they're not worth anything. You might just be looking at my son.
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