oh shit
 

some student died this morning. i should have fucking known. i'm walking to class and we see all these cop cars and red tape and when we get closer we see this mangled bicycle and i was fucking horrified at first like holy shit and it had obviously happened awhile ago because there was no ambulance there and shit shit shit. but then i mention it to my roommate and she wrote it off as like 'man i would be so pissed if that happened to me'. i was all 'did yous ee that accident?' and she was all 'yeah how annoying. can you imagine riding to class and getting hit by a car? i would be so pissed' and i was all 'oh okay maybe it's not such a big deal' but holy fuck and i come back and there's an e-mail from the vice president but he e-mails us everyday with administrative bullshit so i didn't read it then i get an e-mail from my ra which isn't like abnormal either cuz. ugh. she e-mails us like twice a day with random shit too. but she's all 'i'm here if you need me bla bla bla' i'm all wtf? and yeah the guy died. shit. he was a freshmen and he was from illinois shit shit shit. shit. shit. shit.

thats so sad

i alwyas see these kids riding down that street in the morning eating breakfast while they ride their fucking bike. seriously. cofee in one hand and a donut in the other.

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if I haven't made this clear, you are fucking crazy

Oh man. Imagine sending your kid off to college and finding out he died shortly into the school year. Fuck :(

i know. shit. i'm talking to my mommy tonight.

did the bike make it?

I want to talk to mine too. :(

one of my best friends used to work at a resort near here on the weekends and summer. he was driving a utility golf cart thing one morning down a rocky hill when he hit a rock and flipped it, killing the passenger, a 24 year old kid. It was horrible for my friend, the poor kid was really nice, great family and what not. He had to go to the funeral alone, the kids whole family was there. I can't comprehend such pain the parents and family must feel. One freak accident and his life was over.

Man. That makes me too scared to even think about having kids. I would be so devastated if one died. :(

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first thing to come to mind

^ i agree with Sean, that was uncalled for hun...i still like you though.

anyway... that is really sad.

my freshman year of HS a kid was hit by a car while crossing the street going to school in the morning. i didn't know him (though i knew a carfull of kids who died later on in the year) but it was really tragic for everyone. my mom was hysterical. people dont want to be reminded that they can die at anytime....especially when they're in the first semester of college. i mean, i'm home sick with mono right now- and i'd give anything to be back at school with my friends- i love it so much there, and i love everyone. i'd be so beyond hysterical if anything happened to any of them. it's so strange that i'm closer to them than i am to any of my HS friends.

back to what happened at suzes school. i'm sorry to hear that. it probably won't be the first time you'll hear about or see something like that. if i recall, your college is pretty big. i hope that its never someone you know directly. i'm also sorry that you had to *see* that.


**this post is not sarcastic, rude, prying, or vindictive. nor did i give advice. therefore, covering my ass from the flame war that might insue from posting this.

what this thread need is some Chunky Monkey ice cream.

:(

If you find out any more info on it Suze, you should post...
i'd be interested to hear if the guy was wearing a helmet or not.

My dad used to bike race quite a bit, and i grew up always wearing a helmet. I know its a law here in WA, but i always friggin see people not wearing helmets. my dad always calls them brain buckets b/c you're essentially fucked if you don't have one and you get hit :/

WHAT THE FUCK

except that little disclaimer defeats the purpose. you're going on ignore.

They stopped selling chunky monkey at the cheap grocery store i go to....i don't wanna fucking spend $5 for a pint/qt whatever they sell in at safeway :(

i had an epiphany while sneezing OMG
 

yeah i know... fuck 5.59 for a pint of ice cream :( I mean that's only like 3 godiva truffles but..

OK WHY THE FUCK DO I BUY THE CHEAP HEALTHY STUFF AND THE EXPENSIVE UNHEALTHY STUFF

WHAT THE FUCK

*gets out her spoon*

look, bucko!

Around here, we eat ice cream by shoving our faces in the container. there'll be none of that "utencil" usage here

*models ice cream beard*

Oh. My. God.

*models amish beard*

i'm not posting anything important here ever again. you people can't handle it. i'm sorry i made this thread. it's disrespectful to the memory of some poor 18-year old boy who was killed this morning. i apologize.

...can I touch it?

YES!

Oh wait you meant the beard :(

yay!

oh wait, your beard?

but but but...i don't wanna give you guys mono.

it wasn't a flame... i was just making sure that i wasn't going to get one of those "you bitch, you ruined my thread by saying you're sorry". things. i was just saying that i meant "i'm sorry" literally not sarcastically.

WTF
 

UM can yous here music ? who is it suzy >? its pretty good

Back to my point

At Edinburgh University the students kill themselves all the time as they are under such pressure to do well, in first year soem girl threwe herself out of Appleton towers on the street below amongst the students, that was fuckin nuts.

Another favorite is hanging/chocking themselves in pollock halls all you see is a set of feet hanging at te window < not nice.

And the last two are throwing themselves of the salisbury crags ( a local beauty spot some kid did this last winter they saw aset of prints in the snow that led to the edge, and chocking on their own vomit i am quite sure this is not meant but it happens alot.

So yeah Edinburgh uni is shit scared as it has a eral high daeth rate for students.

sleater-kinney - one beat

conversation in my room : "dude did you know that kid died?"

"the bike kid?"

"yeah"

"fuckin a. hell. fuckin a."

classtime.

Tapagh
 

Sleater kinney are not too bad then thats the first i heard of them.
Its always shitty when these kids die.

Fuck. I said that because I think it's crazy to mourn for someone who you do not know. People die everyday but we don't mourn them. Suze said it best, "it's disrespectful to the memory of some poor 18-year old boy who was killed this morning." Some poor boy. I'll leave it at that, some poor 18 year old boy died in America today. She didn't know him or anything. Yes it's horrible that he died, but to talk about it like you're concerned, yet you didn't know him, seems odd to me. But whatever, I just think suze is crazy and like to post that thought. Don't turn this into some gay flame war because I can really care less. This place is begining to annoy me

lol. i'm glad i actually read your post for once. suddenly insanity is defined by having concern for people one doesn't necessarily know. ahh ha ha. yes. empathy is not 'rational' or whatever. but you know there's something wrong with your philosophy when something that shouldn't exist according to your philosophy actually does. like empathy for strangers.

if anything i feel guilty for being so upset about this. like it's selfish of me or something. i can't explain.

A goal of most mental health therapy, at least in the United States. Empathy as a goal serves at least two purposes-
1. Puts the needs/wants of others first in the patient's mind, at least occasionally. Gives the patient some perspective and a version of the world different than their own. It also establishes the responsibility for "understanding" others on the person and not on those "other people" or the therapist (since the therapist does not need to live with your friends, relatives)

2. Secondly, and some would say, more importantly, it gives the patient a moment to step outside themselves and see how others view them- how others view the patient's problems. Their version of the patient's situation can be more instructive than any help from the therapist, since they have a more direct, unfiltered view of the patient's world. Empathy, in this sense, allows the patient to listen to and understand not just how others think and feel, but how they feel about you. It's emotional impact, if taken with an open mind, can be powerful.


Patients who cannot relate to others' feelings, and cannot see their side, are blind to the world around them. Worse, patients who cannot relate to how others see them are blind to themselves.

The concept of learned empathy is as close as Western Psychotherapy gets to Zen ideas.

or almost as if posting about it or talking about it or thinking about it, or relating it to myself, whatever, is almost trivializing it. like just analyzing something just. or posting about it as if i'm allowed to..... i don't even know how to explain it. like it's exploitive almost.

It's not exploitative. If anything, more people are going to know about this poor kid. It gives him a shred of dignity. Maybe some good can come out of it if people realize they need to fucking pay more attention on college campuses full of pedestrians? People drive through here like fucking maniacs and it's probably some reckless driver's fault that the poor kid got hit.

There only one Karl Malone. That be me.