Comments on: Of Friends, Suicide and Life http://www.motochan.com/2009/06/25/of-friends-suicide-and-life/ Musings on Technology, Venture Capital & Entrepreneurship, Travel, Photography and everything else in between Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:45:19 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Bernard Leong http://www.motochan.com/2009/06/25/of-friends-suicide-and-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1609 Bernard Leong Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:16:04 +0000 http://www.motochan.com/?p=1869#comment-1609 My condolences to your loss and also to the families of your friends. In a society like Singapore, where a single failure/success can make or break someone by others, it is actually understandable why some people will succumb to options like suicide. The problem is not just with people who have problems trying to reconcile their past academic success with present career failure, but there also exists the problem where people that they won't help each other to succeed. My condolences to your loss and also to the families of your friends.

In a society like Singapore, where a single failure/success can make or break someone by others, it is actually understandable why some people will succumb to options like suicide. The problem is not just with people who have problems trying to reconcile their past academic success with present career failure, but there also exists the problem where people that they won’t help each other to succeed.

]]> By: Jason Lee http://www.motochan.com/2009/06/25/of-friends-suicide-and-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1582 Jason Lee Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:44:05 +0000 http://www.motochan.com/?p=1869#comment-1582 hey james, i know how it feels. I had to see 2 youths in my church commit suicide. In both cases, everyone felt that they had everything and a good life. What we noticed was that at the end of the day, it just wasn't good enough for them (and themselves only). I guess the issue here is contentment. Are we happy living with a simple life? Or do we look at others and judge where we should be. Sadly, in the SG context, the latter seems to be the case. hey james, i know how it feels. I had to see 2 youths in my church commit suicide.

In both cases, everyone felt that they had everything and a good life. What we noticed was that at the end of the day, it just wasn’t good enough for them (and themselves only).

I guess the issue here is contentment. Are we happy living with a simple life? Or do we look at others and judge where we should be. Sadly, in the SG context, the latter seems to be the case.

]]> By: Meng Weng Wong http://www.motochan.com/2009/06/25/of-friends-suicide-and-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1581 Meng Weng Wong Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:34:13 +0000 http://www.motochan.com/?p=1869#comment-1581 perfectionism fail. :-( http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/ perfectionism fail. :-(

http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/

]]> By: bjorn http://www.motochan.com/2009/06/25/of-friends-suicide-and-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1579 bjorn Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:13:46 +0000 http://www.motochan.com/?p=1869#comment-1579 my sincere condolences, its never easy to lose old friends my sincere condolences, its never easy to lose old friends

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