I am for living no matter what. I no chi wa
ikiru koto. ]]>
I agree with the other poster that people are under too much stress. These corporations worldwide are out of control. They are asking inhuman performance of people. Some people just explode because of it.
]]>She was 42.
Just a couple of months later, a nomi-tomo of mine – this guy with a wife and middle school-aged son – made his exit, on Christmas Day, no less.
I walked into our little local (the kind of place where everyone is a regular, there's no menu, no sign, and the checks are guessed at or forgotten) and saw a drink sitting perfectly centered in front of the corner seat in front of the big window where no one sits unless the place is absolutely packed. That had happened once before – when an occasional customer and the best friend of a regular was killed in a Moto GP race, so I knew what it meant.
Some symbolic gestures you kind of wish you didn't understand.
I'd stopped by the day before, on Christmas Eve, when the master got the call, but he didn't say anything. (That's the kind of place it is – you die and people call your bartender.)
He was 47.
Not even two months later, I walked in to find another shot sitting in front of the empty corner seat. His father said he'd been depressed and a hardcore alcoholic since high school and that it had always been a matter of time.
He was 27.
Emotionally, it's a cumulative effect. You wonder what's wrong that so many people you know decide it's not even worth sticking around to fix or ride out. It doesn't get harder per se, it just adds up.
Each one makes it harder to understand, though. That part doesn't get easier.
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Those suicides, combined with the headline-grabbing suicides of junior high and high school students last Fall, got me wondering what was going on. Here's a bigger picture.
]]>Here's some good reading to cheer you up man.
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I presume that people don't really talk about they problems/feelings at the work place? if I get depressed I have to talk to my wife who helps me through it.
]]>Depression is a very nasty disease. I have never experienced depression until this year. I am so much more compassionate now that I’ve experienced it first hand.
Surviving really nasty depression is like flying an airplane or sailing a boat through a really rough storm. If it doesn't kill you, you come out of it a better person with some very valuable experience.
]]>彼女の苦しみ、親御さんらの悲しみを思うと、胸が締め付けられます。
誰でも死にたい程、辛い時はあります。
でも、彼女は実行してしまった。
誰も彼女を助けられなかった。
人間は皆、孤独です。
でも、一人で生きているのではない事を認識し、助け合いながら、前向きに生きて行かなければなりませんね。
心より彼女の御冥福をお祈りいたします。
合掌 ]]>
Our thoughts and prayers are with her, her family and those who will miss her loss, like you.
All the best Rich.
]]>It's also good to have you back.
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