What life is all about
I'm shocked today to read on the news in Hong Kong that an 11-year old child committed suicide by jumping off from the 40th floor.
He was a very bright child since a young age and have always won competitions and was top in his year. However, since entering P.5 (equivalent to year 5-6 in the UK) his performance worsened (meaning he wasn't the top of the class anymore) and didn't finish his homework on time. The night before he jumped off, his mum was angry with him for not doing his homework, scolded him and asked him to write an essay to reflect on what he did. The next day, he put on his PE kit, took his school bag, left the essay through the door and left the house to the 40th floor. There he put his school bag down and just threw himself off.
So the reason for killing himself was that he couldn't bare the pressure that his parents have on him about his performance in school. Have time really changed so much that nowadays an 11-year old have such pressure? Is academic achievement so important that parents have to put such pressure on an 11-year old? It is important for your children to learn all the facts in the world, but isn't it just as important for them to learn life skills such as coping with disasters and knowing what love is? What is he going to do with all the knowledge now?
News in Hong Kong makes me sad - I've grown used to reading about people (adults) jumping off buildings because of either bankruptcy/relationship problems... but now even 11-year olds have to kill themselves?!?!??!?!! This is just shocking.
2 comments:
I am not shocking Yannie, i kind of understand his feeling, So where is he now? Heaven or Earth? Don't just blame his parents, they are sad enough to lost a son. May be the school has pressure on him, classmate, etc etc...
Don't know has he talk to anyone before he off le? I gues he didnt, he must feel devastated that he couldnt share his feeling with someone else, may be he thought his parents dont understand him, he must be heart broken before he took action. I feel very sad for him.
Life in HK is cloudy, the more i talk to Gr**e, the more i feel i am one of her kind, i feel untouched, sometimes i wish i were this 11 yr old boy, put down my bag and throw myself off (into the ocean)Will anyone miss me?
Forgive me that i didnt call, i was floating in the ocean lately.
Don't you dare say you want to jump off as well because if you do I'm going to kill you again when I do see you for being so stupid!!!!!!!!!!!
You are the only person in the world who understands fully how I think and feel and who I can talk to without holding back at all so if you jump, I jump too!!! :(
I understand how he feels as well, but we can't be so weak and just give up because the path in front of us looks impossible to carry on moving forward. I know I can't be of much help to you being so far away, but you know I am always just on the other end of the broadband line! :D (yes, I'm sad and I'm online most of the time... as you can see my blog entries are everyday.....). I can share your sorrows as well as your happiness you know.
Please don't say u're anything like G, because you are not at all!!!!!!!!!!! Where is the bubbly 5 doors that I used to know??? Don't let her and Hong Kong poison you!!! There is so much more out there so don't get blinded. Open your eyes and see :)
I'm coming back real soon!! In July! Why don't we both look forward to that and work hard through whatever shit-hole that we're in at the moment? We can do it - coz we are Pi & Pala xxx
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