On an opinion piece
From today’s The Irish Times
“It’s useful, though, to consider that you can be up and down at the same time. Going for a walk you might consider some positive aspects of your day or life and this can bring about a sense of lightness. But within this lightness could be a cloud, probably in your stomach, made up of gloom about a situation or maybe an unidentified issue. Here, both up and down are happening at the same time. People dealing with grief or loss or who are in a generally anxiety-provoking situation – such as having their job under threat – might be familiar with this.” –Padraig O’Morain, The Irish Times
Just a few thoughts. I am not suicidal and consider suicide to be a sin that hurts the people close to you, but there is a balance for most people between sadness and joy. Milan Kundera has a book called The Unbearable Lightness of Being that seemed similar to this article.
Some people find life to be a burden. Some seem to have found Kundera to have been a sybarite; I think he was he was just honest about sex. And I think he was honest about the problems of East European communism. My family has family friends from Hungary. That is wonderful country, but it was hurt by Russian communism.