Kassandra Clementi Instagram – Today is R U Ok day. In 2015, in the midst of filming Home and Away – my Dad took his life.
I’ve written many essays and musings about his death, his life, and how he left, but it’s not something I’ve spoken about publicly – it always feels bigger than me and I hesitate to tell parts of a story that don’t belong to me. Especially when the person they belong to, isn’t here.
Today I reflected on my Dad and also the lives of those still here; the lives of everyone I love. Also the lives of people I know nothing about but are somewhere in the world, dragging themselves to dawn and questioning if they can keep going.
No one’s life is a montage of skipping through a daisy field with a golden retriever and a rainbow shooting from their ass – being human is hard. This society is hard.
Everyone knows joy, and everyone knows hurt and no matter where we’re from or where we are, that connects us. There are parts of every person on earth that we would identify with, with such fierce familiarity and sometimes these people don’t come home.
Be the depth and the humor and the flicker of hope in someone’s day. Look people in the eyes, see them, mean it. Give a shit. Give all of the shits. Find the people who do the same.
The people who know the depths of themselves, the depths of each other, are such beautiful people.
There is a place where you flourish – a place where your body softens and you breathe in color, because you belong – it is here – let it find you – stay.
If you have been touched in any way by suicide, and you feel comfortable to do so – leave a love heart under this so people don’t feel so alone. | Posted on 11/Sep/2025 14:09:47
