Not Quite All Right
Yesterday, PDI had an article on suicide as part of its 2bU section.
With this attention on suicide, one cannot help but wonder how the suicide rate among the younger generation has gone up. The reasons are as varied as its effects on the loved ones they leave behind, yet the end is all quite the same-- the snuffing of life with one's own hands.
Just the other week, a mother was said to have fallen to her death from one of the tall apartment buildings near my workplace. She was in her mid-twenties. Although the reasons for her jumping have faded into silence, only the family would really know why she did-- if she really did it.
Talking about this with friends, it came as a surprise to me that suicide could also be done out of vengeance. A friend mentioned how there was a case of a young girl (still in highschool), who had taken a break-up badly. And so, she hung herself in front of her boyfriend's apartment/ dorm door so that she would be the first thing he would see when he would go out the next morning.
I never considered vengeance as a probable cause to take one's life. Usually the reasons are self-pity, extreme melancholy, financial constraints, despair... self-centered and later on a self-inflicted wound that seems to address these pains. But vengeance sounds so much more powerful, and for that reason unnerving. People usually move on, and find others... but it would make sense too to inflict a life-long guilt on the other person's hands. This is the stuff of nightmares, of literature, of fiction. And yet, it has become the material for it, from reality.
I thought that, growing older, I would have more clarity in why people act the way they do. That I would understand why I think the way I do.
I have a lot to learn. :)
With this attention on suicide, one cannot help but wonder how the suicide rate among the younger generation has gone up. The reasons are as varied as its effects on the loved ones they leave behind, yet the end is all quite the same-- the snuffing of life with one's own hands.
Just the other week, a mother was said to have fallen to her death from one of the tall apartment buildings near my workplace. She was in her mid-twenties. Although the reasons for her jumping have faded into silence, only the family would really know why she did-- if she really did it.
Talking about this with friends, it came as a surprise to me that suicide could also be done out of vengeance. A friend mentioned how there was a case of a young girl (still in highschool), who had taken a break-up badly. And so, she hung herself in front of her boyfriend's apartment/ dorm door so that she would be the first thing he would see when he would go out the next morning.
I never considered vengeance as a probable cause to take one's life. Usually the reasons are self-pity, extreme melancholy, financial constraints, despair... self-centered and later on a self-inflicted wound that seems to address these pains. But vengeance sounds so much more powerful, and for that reason unnerving. People usually move on, and find others... but it would make sense too to inflict a life-long guilt on the other person's hands. This is the stuff of nightmares, of literature, of fiction. And yet, it has become the material for it, from reality.
I thought that, growing older, I would have more clarity in why people act the way they do. That I would understand why I think the way I do.
I have a lot to learn. :)