Stop! 別再將自殺人士英雄化!

Stop! 別再將自殺人士英雄化!

網上流傳似乎有第三人因「反送中」而自殺。

夠了!罪魁禍首,也許是傳媒以及你和我。
「連環跳」,有如傳染病。不要再把自殺合理化、正常化、英雄化了!

200萬零1人,
第一位自殺人士在太古廣場穿上黃雨衣、掛起血書、一躍而下後被傳媒熱烈頌揚(glorify)為「愛港烈士」「香港兒子」,受到全城獻白花致敬尊重。自殺,為香港犧牲生命,被形容得多麼光榮無私!大家都激動吶喊 義士是被政權推下去了!

第二位21歲女大學生,也以類似手法手寫血書,自貶以「小命」作籌碼來換取「二百萬人的心願」,在牆上瀟灑地畫上三大紅字「反送中」,似乎以為可以以生命作為政治籌碼,如「香港兒子」一般受世人銘記。同樣,在絕望間「為了香港」一躍而下後,又成為了傳媒大眾口中的第二位「年輕烈士」「女義士」。各位市民又紛紛把矛頭指向林鄭,你看,你的政權又推下第二個人了,「林鄭你要再死過幾多個年輕人你先肯收手呀?」。然後大眾都說會繼承她的意志走下去,香港各處都有悼念活動,死得很風光。

第三位懷疑自殺女生,在臉書寫上因政治而「絕望透了」。現在生死未卜。

一個又一個,如果我們再歌頌自殺者,如果我們再把自殺聯繫到「政府幾時先肯收手?」,再描述他們被政權推下去,想不清頭腦的年輕人也許會陸續有來!絕望中,年輕人也許認為自己一死了之可以work,絕望中,年輕人也許可以跟風做烈士,成為敢死隊榜上的第三人、第四人、第五人。

各位!大家都衝昏頭腦了!
可否停一停,退後一步冷靜下來?

自殺者並不是什麼偉大的烈士,
而是一時情緒受到急速升溫的政治環境所困擾的脆弱人類。
可能本身情緒已經低落,看到這麼多的負面訊息就更加不能抽離。
年輕人的生命更不可能是政治籌碼!

我們唯一可以講的message是:
一個都不能少
一個都不能少
一個都不能少

最近一天又一天的行動,
大家都被過量的訊息衝昏頭腦,
大家都突然因逃犯條例「上腦」。

老套說一句,你死了,可以改變現狀嗎?你要抗爭,你要改變,也至少有命才能抗爭呀!唯一改變的,你輕易地離開了世界,卻令養育你的父母餘生心碎,也令到愛你的親友內疚一生。

老套說一句,退後一步想一想,大家還有健康的身體,三餐溫飽,身邊也有家庭及親友。真的需要絕望得要死嗎?過分衝動偏激了。

各位,請不要在把自殺人士英雄化了。
這樣,我們在間接鼓勵自殺行為。
我們,才是滿手鮮血的人。

The Book of Awakening – Mark Nepo

  • there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.
  • We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.
  • If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. When we narrow our focus, the problem seems everything. In actuality, misery is a moment of suffering allowed to become everything. So, when feeling miserable, we must look wider than what hurts.
  • Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we’ve spun, the tasks we’ve assumed, the problems we have to solve. They’ll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.
  • An aging master grew tired of his apprentice complaining, and so, one morning, sent him for some salt. When the apprentice returned, the master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it. “How does it taste?” the master asked.

    “Bitter” spit the apprentice.

    The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake, and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the old man said, “Now drink from the lake.”

    As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the master asked, “How does it taste?” “Fresh,” remarked the apprentice. “Do you taste the salt?” asked the master. “No,” said the young man.

    At this, the master sat beside this serious young man who so reminded him of himself and took his hands, offering, “The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things …. stop being a glass. Become a lake.”

Less Is More

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難得的long weekend。

  • Podcast和Email都是相對上原始的工具。
    想邊做其他事邊學習新知識或只是想讓雙眼休息,audio podcast也是不錯選擇。這不就是收音機的作用嗎?最近大熱的luxury email app Superhuman 竟然要by-invitation only with USD$30 subscription fee,就算現在有whatsapp skype slack,我們最終還是離不開我們的email address。 (其實gmail還真的應該upgrade一下了)
  • 轉了我的Chrome sign-in page,很滿意。

返工對客金句

「大家都係打份工姐。」

「你有你嘅難處,我有我嘅難處」

「其實都係想解決件事」

「明白呀,但我都要同公司/老闆交代」

「唔係針對你呀」

「我真係幫你同老闆爭取咗架啦」

「一人行一步啦」

「我地都合作咗咁耐,都知道你一直最支持/幫忙」

「多謝你一直咁支持/合作/幫忙呀」

「都知道你難做嘅」「都唔想你難做呀」

「老闆話」