Senior at our school attempted suicide.
This guy is/was popular. Big star of the baseball & golf teams, nominated for homecoming king, very charismatic guy. Everybody at school loved him.
Sometime today, he jumped from a 9th story apartment window. A good friend of mine lives in the same room, five stories down. Reputedly, is that this senior broke every bone in his body, with severe brain damage, and is in the University of Penn hospital with a 40% chance of survival.
As my religion, i believe in the reverence of life, yet I can appreciate that he might have had some mental problems that caused him to do this. But what really pisses me off is that, upon hearing about this, people I was talking to continued to bitch and moan about such incredibly petty problems.
I know this doesn't affect me overmuch, and I also realize that its best not to dwell on these things to a certain point, but I just thought--hoped, I guess--that people might stop and be a bit more thankful that they have a decent life. A while back, I had a sort of realization that the little things that hit us everyday don't add up to much in the long run. I suppose it's just too much to ask that other people share in this.
For the record: I'm not saying that I demand everybody be completely chipper, 100% of the time, and I do recognize that the jumper may have had some seriously fucked-up issues going on. I don't really know where I'm going with this, but I suppose that's the point of a rant.
Comments and input are welcome, of course.
This guy is/was popular. Big star of the baseball & golf teams, nominated for homecoming king, very charismatic guy. Everybody at school loved him.
Sometime today, he jumped from a 9th story apartment window. A good friend of mine lives in the same room, five stories down. Reputedly, is that this senior broke every bone in his body, with severe brain damage, and is in the University of Penn hospital with a 40% chance of survival.
As my religion, i believe in the reverence of life, yet I can appreciate that he might have had some mental problems that caused him to do this. But what really pisses me off is that, upon hearing about this, people I was talking to continued to bitch and moan about such incredibly petty problems.
I know this doesn't affect me overmuch, and I also realize that its best not to dwell on these things to a certain point, but I just thought--hoped, I guess--that people might stop and be a bit more thankful that they have a decent life. A while back, I had a sort of realization that the little things that hit us everyday don't add up to much in the long run. I suppose it's just too much to ask that other people share in this.
For the record: I'm not saying that I demand everybody be completely chipper, 100% of the time, and I do recognize that the jumper may have had some seriously fucked-up issues going on. I don't really know where I'm going with this, but I suppose that's the point of a rant.
Comments and input are welcome, of course.