I read about this when I got back in the evening... and it's kinda depressing.
Sometimes, I think being overly connected like we are now is bad... news travel so fast. And in a way, I think it encourages copycat behaviour. Just as in the Columbine shooting indirectly playing a role in the school and campus violences across America after that.
When you see that someone has paved the way, you would feel that it offers a 'solution-of-a-quick-fix'.... someone did it and there was so much outpouring empathy and sympathy... and with all romanticizing of such feelings in the media, I guess it seems a very inviting quick solution to whatever problem we are facing. 8(
Another suicide; by hanging this time. Not much details except this one was from the same faculty as the first case. Difference is he has graduated.. worked a while... lost his job... went back to work for NTU.
When a person takes his life, I guess it means he feels he has run out hope... he cannot cope. It's a last act of desperation, to permanently get out of that feeling of hopelessness.
And these days... finger pointing at other causes seem so quick. The other day, it was FYP... this latest one??? What now? Our society at fault?? Society has always been at fault... like forever. FYPs has been around for as long as I can remember. So, now??? The world we live in is mad???
Such is our lives these days... chasing one thing after another, depending on our own strength. When the going is good, then all is well. When we come to a wall, we collapse cos we don't know where to turn to; we don't know how to cope. It's kinda sad... cos I think we should try to look for solace from the above. When all fails... maybe there is comfort from up above which we should give a try. I dunno but this is my two sen...
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Random Shots, well said.
Martin Luther King Jr once said that " We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."
No one is hopeless whose hope is God.
I think the people now are too comfortable. They did not go through tough times like those in the old time. Those days people worked so hard to earn a living. They are tougher and the life also very simple. Nowadays people (esp young people) are too comfortable. They don't know how to work hard. They are too protected. They can't cope with whatever...studies, work, disappointment, desperation etc. Because they were not been through hard times. So suicide is the only solution to them. What do you think?
Am reminded of this story I read in The Reader's Digest long, long time ago.. Tough Times Don't Last, Tough People Do. Cant' remember what the story was about but it was the title that stuck to my mind... guess that jives with what you have in mind... maybe we are not as tough as we think we are...
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