Why treat life like a trash? Is death the only solution?
Why treat life like a trash? Is death the only solution?
Sigh ... I'm writing with a very heavy heart. Attended the wake of an ex-Sunday School student with a friend from college. I couldn't believe my ears that it was really her who died! She was only 22. I don't want (and I'm not at liberty to do so) to go into the details of what caused her death, neither do I want to speculate the reasons, though I knew bits and pieces, and from here and there.
For a short span of 2 years - 2 of my ex-Sunday School students had died. Both from the same Sunday School class, both are girls. When I was teaching their class, it wasn't an easy task to get into their world already - both of them were indifferent to the lessons taught each week ... both of them have icy cold expressions (guess they felt forced by their parents to attend SS classes??) ... both of them seemed to have lots of issues bottled up within them.
The one who died 2 years ago committed suicide. Reasons - relationship, the guy wanted to break-up. When I hear reasons like these and girls taking their own lives for the sake of "worthless" fellows who don't even cherish them in the first place, I'm just filled with anger, and at the same time sadness.
Anger because of how our world is treating relationship issues these days - so loosely, and without a sense of commitment, just wanting individual's interests to be satisfied and met. Blame it on the media - the way it taught our young people the wrong values about relationship such as "If you love me, prove it to me ..."; "If we can't get along, let's not waste time anymore ..."; "I've found somebody better ...", and so on. Our world thrives on success, and when we can't handle any situation, the message is "Let's take the easy way out." As a result, we have rising cases of divorce, abortion, suicides, and the list goes on.
On the other hand, I felt sad because people treat life like a trash. Are their problems really unsolveable? Is that the dead end already? Have they spare a thought for their parents who brought them up painstakingly? Have they consider the feelings of people around them? Have they recipocrate God's love and His destiny for them?
Why treat life like a trash? Is death the only solution when life gets tough? Isn't there the phrase "when the going gets tough, the tough gets going"? Why do our young people not allow themselves to be toughened? Why aren't they willing to go through the hard knocks of life so as to grow to be better people?
Questions, questions, questions ... and I can only pray, "Lord, have mercy ..."
Sigh ... I'm writing with a very heavy heart. Attended the wake of an ex-Sunday School student with a friend from college. I couldn't believe my ears that it was really her who died! She was only 22. I don't want (and I'm not at liberty to do so) to go into the details of what caused her death, neither do I want to speculate the reasons, though I knew bits and pieces, and from here and there.
For a short span of 2 years - 2 of my ex-Sunday School students had died. Both from the same Sunday School class, both are girls. When I was teaching their class, it wasn't an easy task to get into their world already - both of them were indifferent to the lessons taught each week ... both of them have icy cold expressions (guess they felt forced by their parents to attend SS classes??) ... both of them seemed to have lots of issues bottled up within them.
The one who died 2 years ago committed suicide. Reasons - relationship, the guy wanted to break-up. When I hear reasons like these and girls taking their own lives for the sake of "worthless" fellows who don't even cherish them in the first place, I'm just filled with anger, and at the same time sadness.
Anger because of how our world is treating relationship issues these days - so loosely, and without a sense of commitment, just wanting individual's interests to be satisfied and met. Blame it on the media - the way it taught our young people the wrong values about relationship such as "If you love me, prove it to me ..."; "If we can't get along, let's not waste time anymore ..."; "I've found somebody better ...", and so on. Our world thrives on success, and when we can't handle any situation, the message is "Let's take the easy way out." As a result, we have rising cases of divorce, abortion, suicides, and the list goes on.
On the other hand, I felt sad because people treat life like a trash. Are their problems really unsolveable? Is that the dead end already? Have they spare a thought for their parents who brought them up painstakingly? Have they consider the feelings of people around them? Have they recipocrate God's love and His destiny for them?
Why treat life like a trash? Is death the only solution when life gets tough? Isn't there the phrase "when the going gets tough, the tough gets going"? Why do our young people not allow themselves to be toughened? Why aren't they willing to go through the hard knocks of life so as to grow to be better people?
Questions, questions, questions ... and I can only pray, "Lord, have mercy ..."
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