When it comes to gifts that many of us take for granted, one of them definitely has to be life (no, this isn’t about abortion). People go through the breakup of a relationship and somehow come to the conclusion that it would be better if they didn’t live.
That’s where my logical mind stops working.
I try to understand a lot of things, and I’m able to understand a lot of things, even if I don’t agree with the issue. Half the time I ask to have something clarified, it’s just so I can understand it, not so I can start a fight. I just want to understand – then I can know how to approach the subject and form my opinion with the right information.
I don’t understand why people think that life is something that we can just do away with. Life is so much more. We have this one opportunity to live it out, so we might as well make the best of it.
“Tuesday as 17-year-old Shaun Dykes prepared to jump from the top of a multi-storey carpark in Derby, northern England, spectators allegedly shouted to him: "How far can you bounce?," the U.K.'s MailOnline reported.”
Now, I do feel bad for this guy. The article goes on to report that he “was believed to have suffered from depressions and struggling to overcome a relationship breakdown.” While I have never been in a serious relationship, I totally understand that giving your trust and emotional security to someone, only to have it betrayed, would be extremely difficult.
Obviously, I can’t play Monday morning quarterback and say what I would do in that situation. I honestly don’t know what I would do. I hope that I would try to find a constructive way to move on and pick up the pieces of my broken trust, but I can’t be so sure.
“Superintendent Andy Hough, of Derbyshire police, said he was disappointed and disturbed by the people heard encouraging Dykes to jump. I find it a disturbing and shocking reflection on society when people feel inclined to do that," Supt Hough told the MailOnline.”
That the crowd would encourage him to jump is beyond my mind to grasp, and I hope society is not going in a direction where we encourage suicide as an answer to our problems.
The moral of the story? Don’t waste the one chance we have to live. Make the most of it. If you’re hurt, then find a way to heal that wound.
Don’t miss out on your life. There’s not much of it left…
The problem in many cases is that people feel as though they have no control over their own situation and there is no hope for finding hapiness. This is because they are at odds with real truth, or "what is". Everything that exists is exactly what it is - any situation, object, emotion, thought, etc. The way one chooses to experience these things, however, makes a massive impact on that individual's reality. When people get depressed and feel their life has no value because it is full of hopelessness and unhappiness, it is because they are choosing to see the things they are experiencing in a negative way. If they would simply make the decision to experience things from a positive and loving perspective instead of a place of fear and discontent, they would find that life is full of meaning and value afterall. Of course, this is easier said than done.