A Life Should Not Have Perished
I felt blue today for no obvious reason. I spent some time searching for music on Spotify and found a few soothing pieces that helped calm my mind. As I listened through my headphones and slowly felt re-energized, I realized my sadness had not come from nowhere. It came from a YouTube video I watched the night before. The video began with a police call. A woman reported that her friend had died by suicide in his apartment. The story then asked a heartbreaking question: Why would a successful young entrepreneur, a graduate of Cambridge, take his own life at only twenty-eight years old? The video shared his life story. He was brilliant from a young age, excelled in school, and left China at sixteen to attend a prestigious boarding school in London. Later he was admitted to the University of Cambridge. After graduation, he started a high-tech company with several friends. They raised capital. The company grew quickly. By every outward measure, he was succeeding. And yet, beneath...
