Breath very slowly, and focus on one thing instead of a million things at once.
We're all fucking crazy. I'm having a BigMac meal at 5am in the morning before going to bed, my 15 year old cousin is getting plastic surgery, and I've come across way too many homeless people with PSPs.
And just when you think you've had enough of that crazy, you go right back into the loop of crazy and spin and spin until you realize there's no way out .
Well, there's one way out, and it's not, contrary to popular belief, the easy way out.
South Korea, a country with one of the highest suicide rates, was traumatized by an unexpected death this morning. Korea's last year's president had jumped off a cliff. Apparently he was already going through hell after he'd been succeeded. This seems to be a common occurrence in the post-presidency state in Korea. Once their title and power is gone, so are most of their PR forces that'd been protecting them from public attacks and accusations. Most ex-presidents are accused of accepting bribes, a common practice in politics, and according to my mom, the issues are mostly taken to court. However, by some inconspicuous conspiracy, most ex-presidents get away with it, walking away with enough money for their whole life and their many generations to come. Others aren't as lucky, such as this one.
I'm not trying to justify his bribe-taking actions. But people are mean, and in a mean world, death is the one thing that gives the illusion of being forgiven. No matter a person's past, when he dies, he merely becomes a memory and we feel sympathy that we couldn't when he was alive; except in the case of a suicide. When someone commits suicide, we do what we do best; judge. We automatically try to measure up their fear, endurance, sorrow, selfishness, and just whatever that must've been going through their heads; some conclude with the simpler answer: they were weak. Some, with some sympathy.
I think people ponder on committing suicide if the suffering outweighs the joy. And often, when people consider suicide, they push the idea even further by punishing themselves on merely considering it, because they feel they are flawed, weak, crazy, or sinful. But “suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain,” and it is merely an imbalance between the two. Therefore, the definition of bearable depends on the person; just like anything else. So can we really say that they were weak?
I went to hot yoga today, and it felt amazing. I think everyone should seriously do yoga (and smoke a joint).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090524/ap_on_re_as/as_skorea_obit_roh
4 comments:
i really like this entry, my favorite parts are:
"No matter a person's past, when he dies, he merely becomes a memory and we feel sympathy that we couldn't when he was alive"
and
"“suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain,” and it is merely an imbalance between the two. Therefore, the definition of bearable depends on the person; just like anything else. So can we really say that they were weak?"
and i love how to end the post with "I think everyone should seriously do yoga (and smoke a joint)."
My question about suicide is, would a person be considered "weak minded" or "frail" if they commit?
I mean, disregarding the moral issues about respecting the dead and everything...
For the person committing suicide, has their life already succumbed to the point that PAIN > JOY? In such a way that they're willing to make the people around them suffer from the loss?
I mean, it's a statement, in that "you don't care about me, or you would've shown it, so this is what you get." Kind of thing..
*SHRUG*.
In other news, HOMELESS PEOPLE HAVE PSPS? WTFBBQ?
i think when people’s misery > joy and if dying is better than living then it’s their own decision and I do think they have their rights to die without anybody having to judge them. Like in a lot of developing countries suicide rates are higher because their living standards are so poor and it‘s preferable to die than live, and if we’re willing to sympathize with them and "forgive" them, then who are we to say one pain is greater than another?
And as for the "you don't care about me, or you would've shown it, so this is what you get." Statement, i highly doubt majority of people who do commit suicide do it to spite others, because that would actually be extremely selfless of them because they're willing to "give up" their life "for" others.
Not at all am i saying I support suicide, but i think they need to be regarded with the some level of sympathy if not the same…
whoa.. that was a long response
Right on Dami! You hit the money.
Post a Comment