To my generation the understanding of suicide by school students does not come easy. Yet this is not an uncommon occurrence, nor is it new. And nobody is untouched. Not the Goan community, not anybody. I have myself witnessed Goan families grieving for a lost son or daughter often brilliant and overachieving who gave no indication to their parents or friends that they were walking down that road.
In our generation the young ones didn’t have much but we were happy. No mental conflicts, no ‘suicide ideation’. Perhaps it is that very lack of not having what we wanted that made us forever strive to reach out beyond ourselves. Never what we wanted, always what our parents, our teachers, what society wanted and expected from us. Perhaps it was peace and serenity in the home and society that did it. I don’t know. I know I am oversimplifying. I have no knowledge at all in that area. I can only speculate and try to figure out a problem with which I am least familiar. My heart reaches out to the parents like those of the young Canadian Sri Lankan boy in the article who came to Canada to find a peaceful life from their once war torn country. Abi was outgoing and gifted. He never made it to graduation. The 17-year-old’s death — and what followed at his Brampton high school — is part of a concerning problem | The Star https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2021/02/19/abi-was-outgoing-and-gifted-but-the-17-year-old-never-made-it-to-graduation-his-death-and-what-followed-at-his-brampton-high-school-is-part-of-a-concerning-problem.html Roland. Toronto.
