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Facing challenges

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Christine Yam is writing her final exams at the University of Hong Kong. If you want to respond to her column, you can e-mail her at [email protected]
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We talked about how to be happy during Father's Day last week, and I hope you did have a very wonderful Father's Day. However, I can feel that some of the fathers must have been extremely sad, especially during that day, as their children may have committed suicide in the last year.

To the many people who love and care for them - and even those who do not know them - their deaths are incredulous and shocking.

Every person must have a reason, or even more than one reason, behind every decision they make. Those children who committed suicide have often taken that drastic move because they could not stand the pressure of examinations and maintaining good grades.

At that very critical moment, they might think that they were so 'rational' to take that step as a 'solution' to solve all their problems. It is true that they no longer have to face the problems they were encountering. However, their price is to sacrifice at least 60 years of life during which they could experience much happiness.

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Ending our lives is not a rational solution! A more rational solution to problems is getting through the painful times by positively changing the circumstances.

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