20-06-2013, 09:09 AM
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Also I feel like a bit of a loser because I quit teaching about 10 years ago. Couldn't handle the stress. I'm now working in kind of night-time security which is easy enough but...well there is a feeling of not living up to my potential,.....20-06-2013, 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by youngatart
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Also I feel like a bit of a loser because I quit teaching about 10 years ago. Couldn't handle the stress. I'm now working in kind of night-time security which is easy enough but...well there is a feeling of not living up to my potential,.....
Nick matey, you are who you are - there is no 'false' potential to aim for you can only live your life from the where you are now, not where you previously were.
20-06-2013, 11:35 AM
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I taught in FE for 23 years and yes, there were times when it was stressful, particularly when trying to teach students who didn't want to learn, but there were also times when it was very rewarding. Nevertheless I got out as soon as I could at the ripe old age of 60 !
20-06-2013, 01:35 PM
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Hi Nick
Originally Posted by youngatart
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to want to commit suicide?Now before you tell Youngatart to "nick off"
, for being such a sad, pessimistic soul.........
I thought today if I had committed a serious crime like murder, I could not forgive myself. Especially rape and murder. It's just so shocking and so hideous. You may have heard of an Irish girl who was raped and murdered in Melbourne(Australia) recently. Appalling story. I tried to think if I was in the murderer's shoes, I wouldn't want to live anymore. I would be happy to be executed immediately. Sooner the better. I think if there was an easy way to suicide, I would do it.
Guilt is a terrible thing. How does one recover from such guilt? I hope I never find out. Mind you, I think this particular rapist has more regret than guilt. Regret that he got found out. But you never know. There may be a pang of remorse in his heart.
Those who do feel guilt sometimes manage to come to terms with their crime in time much as we do with a bereavement.
Others have a form of self denial, they close the box on their crime and hide it away in the deepest recesses of their memories.
'What would it take for me' well I don't think it would be guilt . As someone who abhors violence in any form I could never intentionally hurt anyone.
If I accidentally hurt someone it would be difficult for me to accept this. I guess I would look at the good that I can do and that would give me a reason to go on living..
20-06-2013, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Pats CG
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I think you would find it intolerable today Alan .... Did you have violence from the pupils to contend with ......?
20-06-2013, 03:25 PM
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Suicide is not painless. Its dreadful for the relatives and friends of the person involved. I know. There is always a gap where that personwas and instead of seeing them lying in bed dying of cancer or from an
accident you wonder what they were thinking when they killed themselves and why they didn't ask for help.
Although you mentioned dark things Nick, but you do seem to have a heart. Why don't you try sharing yourself with time for people who need
help, a charity or something. You will find when you have others to
think about and care for you forget about yourself and your problems
and you wont be lonely helping others.
p.s. if I remember rightly about that poor Irish girl being murdered I thought I read the guy had a wife and child at home.
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