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460 views. 2019-9-3 19:53 |Individual Classification:Reflection

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On September 1st, the day before school started, a 13-year-old boy jumped from 8th floor and killed himself after being scolded by his parents for spending too many time with his cellphone. This news, along with a video of the grief-stricken parents crying over the body, flooded our wechat moment and the parent’s groups. From the screen, the paralyzing despair of the mother and the heartbreaking howl of the father seemed to materialize and suck out of the air.

 

Many left comments, trying to find out the reason. As if by doing so, we could finalize this terrible accident. So we were eager to blame, blame the boy for being too weak, blame the cellphone for being so addictive, blame the parents for being too harsh, and blame the school or the society for ignoring the kids’ mental health. We blame this and we blame that, because it is an easier thing to do. For example, it would be easy for me to say: “How could he give up his life so easily when someone is trying so hard to live?”

 

I didn’t say that because I remembered those moments in my life, when I also saw this world through a distorted reality or precisely, a distorted cognition. I remembered those moments where I felt as if all the colors had drained out of the life and when I stared into the future, there was nothing but an endless dark tunnel full of uncertainties and fears. I was there, so I knew how easily we could snap at a certain moment.

 

I guess for everyone, there are moments in life you would feel vulnerable and helplessly, there are moments you are simple too tensed up to breath.

 

And when you were there, the last thing you need in the world was the pointing figures, or even the well-meant suggestions. All you need was probably just a moment of peace, non-judgment, no criticism. Just to know that somebody was there, listening with an understanding ear. That’s probably all it takes to save you from that horrified, distorted world.  

 

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