{"id":5285,"date":"2026-05-13T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:32:00","slug":"no-child-runs-away-by-choice-they-run-away-because-they-want-to-stop-hurting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5285","title":{"rendered":"No child runs away by choice, they run away because they want to stop hurting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today it&#8217;s too <b>heavy pencil<\/b> to write. The incident of <b>autuicide<\/b> in <b>Heliopolis<\/b> is, without exaggeration, one of the most shocking things I&#8217;ve ever read.<\/p>\n<p>And not just in the way. Mostly for the <b>silence<\/b> that preceded it. For the <b>invisible weight<\/b> carried by <b>two children just 17 years old.<\/b> I dare not even imagine what they must have felt to get to the point of <b>planning<\/b> their end together. Because this was not a spur of the moment impulse. It was a <b>cry of pain<\/b> that no one heard in time.<\/p>\n<p>The most shocking thing is that they <b>fell hand in hand. <\/b>Two children who, in their<b> utter darkness, <\/b>held each other until the last second. And that image shatters every human being who can still feel.<\/p>\n<p>We keep talking about <b>achievements<\/b>, <b>grades<\/b>, <b>graduations<\/b>, <b>goals<\/b>, <b>future<\/b>. But we forget that behind the <b>numbers<\/b> are <b>souls<\/b>. Children exhausted, scared, pressured to prove their worth. <b>Children<\/b> who are afraid to <b>fail<\/b>, who feel like they don&#8217;t fit in anywhere if they aren&#8217;t &#8220;enough&#8221;. And <b>depression<\/b> doesn&#8217;t always show. It hides behind <b>smiles, jokes, <\/b>ordinary conversations.<\/p>\n<p>No child leaves this life because <b>&#8220;they wanted to die&#8221;<\/b>. They leave because at some point they believed there was no other way to stop hurting. <\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the pencil is too heavy to write. The suicide incident in Heliopolis is, without exaggeration, one of the most shocking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}