Several days before I came to Singapore, I heard a student in Tinghua University ,one of the best universities in China, committed suicide because of the enormous pressure in study. Similarly , a student in NTU,also a famous university in the world, jumped off from a building. Only five days later , a graduate person committed suicide.
When we saw this kind of news, we always thought that the dramatis personae of these events were stupid and disappointed those who cared about him. However , I did not think it was fair to evaluate them like that .
We were just spectators of these dramatis personae ,so we did not know what their plights were. Even though we got what caused the tragic, we could not remark them only according to the direct causes. Besides, what we got was just what kind of plights they were caught in, but we did not know what would happen to them when facing these troublesome problems. For example, It was said that the undergraduate in NTU committed suicide because of the withdrawal of his scholarship . Only from this aspect , we might think it was not worth to jumping off from the building .However, the key of the problem was that we did not know clearly about what would be taken to him when the withdrawal of the scholarship happened. In details, we did not know the implicit stress given by his parents, relatives and classmates. To a certain extent, we could imagine that if we were him what we would do. However, that was just an assumption, which could not replace realistic. Therefore, we could not understand thoroughly his feeling in such situation.
In my opinion, we had better not evaluate this sort of people in a critical view as we knew little about their past, character and the specific plights.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
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It is a tragedy everytime someone takes his.her own life. I agree we are in no position to judge because we do not know the circumstances and the reason the person decided to take such a drastic step.
What is true, however, is that we all need a helping hand now and then, and even a strong shoulder to cry on sometimes. When the journey of life gets too painful, we need someone to take our hand & lead us through the dark periods of our life; someone to be there for us to comfort us and to cheer us on; someone to tell us there is light at the end of the tunnel. There is hope, no matter how bleak the situation is.
We can all be that someone for those around us.
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