Okay. I just read this few months ago and felt I need to share and talk about it.
“That was scary”. It was just 1998. Before the rise of modern media celebrity era, drama, hollwood movies and the gaint social media. Those 504 people map the statistics for all different people youth mindset.
This is a recent 2 years ago survey of 12,000 people including 2000 from the US.
Recent data must be one of the most censored data that will never surface and be available.
The following chart is from BBC documenting suicide rates in the United States.
I am not sure if BBC would ever show their real stats. These numbers are before the AI chatbots, LLMs and AI-friends boom.
Surround your loved ones, take care of each other, love life and god. I really do love you. You are probably stressing about something uselesss nobody noticed or thought about. See if its probably the time to leave your smart devices behind and start using a flip phone. Communicate non violently with your loved ones. Seek new friends and connections. Listen to their problems and what is keeping them up at night. Stop seeking truths, you will never find a truth that’ll satisfy you. Start some voluntary work outside, internet communities and religious communities. Start giving out without needing something in return. The world will give you what you were missing and it is probably love.
Paradoxically I also struggle to live by the above text everyday. I am trying my best. You should too.
Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.
Wittgenstein: A Wonderful Life, Tim Madigan, 2006.