[STOP Suicide] When Daito Shunsuke was a junior high school student， he was abandoned by his parents， but his dream of becoming an actor saved him “Life is fun once you overcome that．”

Actor Daito Shunsuke’s parents divorced when he was in elementary school. When I entered junior high school, my mother left home and I lived alone and in poverty for about a year. After being abandoned by his parents, he almost lost sight of his own self-worth, but he overcame this by continuing to hold on to his dream of becoming an actor and believing that “there is a place for me somewhere in this big world.” “There are many people in the outside world who understand how you feel. Try asking someone for help. “Once you get through it, life will be fun,” he says, encouraging her. My parents divorced when I was in the third grade of elementary school. I found out when I overheard my mother telling an older woman at a nearby cake shop about her divorce. My father was a taxi driver and was away from home a lot anyway, so it didn’t really affect us that much. My mother ran a dry cleaning shop on the first floor of our home in Sakai City, Osaka, and managed it all by herself. Whenever I leave the store for a short while to go shopping or something, I always leave the shutters half open. When I was in the second year of junior high school, I would come home from school to find the shutters half open. I waited for my mother to come home, but she still hadn’t come home by morning. The days when my mother did not come home increased, the intervals extended to two days, then a week, and eventually she stopped coming home altogether. …I needed to bring my own lunch in junior high school, but after my mother passed away, I could no longer bring my own. We came home for lunch and received sweet bread from our teacher. I was really grateful for my teacher’s kind feelings, but I got tired of making him feel uncomfortable, so I stopped going to school halfway through my second year of junior high school. An outsider might sympathize and say, “That must be hard,” but as the people involved, they are struggling to survive and have no time to feel depressed. More than anything, what hurt me the most was losing sight of my own value and wondering, “Who would want me if my parents don’t need me?” Once, during the day, I had an emotional outburst and screamed at the mirror, “I’m going to kill you!”, so loud my throat almost tore. A surprised man from the neighborhood came to see it and then quickly left. Rather than feeling that they had come to help, they seemed more anxious about having been found out. I was embarrassed about being left alone and didn’t want anyone to know. There were times when the thought of death crossed my mind. But then I suddenly became calm, got scared and started shaking. At that moment, the sadness I felt at not having my parents come home turned to anger. “If I die here, I’ll lose everything to you. If my parents don’t accept me, then I’ll live my life in a way that will be accepted by as many other people as possible.” I decided to live and show it. For the rest of the article, please see the source.

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