Too much stress?

• alleggerita

  11 May 08, 01:58

  I was on bus number 22 and I came across this little boy who is definitely 12yo or younger. I would guess he's 9 or 10 years old.

  What surprised me the most is that he is mentally ill! I wonder does his parents know about it. And if they know, why was he travelling alone?

  I thought he was talking on the phone at first. Then I realised he wasn't holding a mobile phone. Then I tried to convince myself that he has a bluetooth headset on the ear that I couldn't see. But I can't help but notice his topics are repeated over and over again. For the whole journey of about an hour, his topic revolved around money, friends, fights, going to see satan and going to hell and other things that I couldn't catch.

  I can't think of what kind of stress pushed this kid to the breaking point. His chinese is good (I mean his pronunciation), so this lead me to believe that he couldn't possibly be that bad in school after all.

  What kind of stress could it be? Family problems? Stress in school? Or a combination of both? Is our education system and society to be blamed?

• QX179R

  11 May 08, 02:02

  I think that boy really needs someone to talk to about his probs (if any)..

• noahnoah

  11 May 08, 02:02

   

  no one is to blame one

  all of us got stress one!!!!

  just that we dun show lar

  i also got stress u know

• Isis

  11 May 08, 02:02

  Maybe he is just playing...

   

• alleggerita

  11 May 08, 02:04

  Originally posted by Isis:

  Maybe he is just playing...

   

  Playing for what? A skit?

• FireIce

  11 May 08, 02:05

  rehearsing �� for performance
  or maybe u will see him in ch 8 drama soon

• alleggerita

  11 May 08, 02:07

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  rehearsing �� for performance
  or maybe u will see him in ch 8 drama soon

  Cannot be la. I clearly heard him say lanjiao twice. Unless you wanna tell me Channel 8 getting more liberal with vulgarities.

• escadaraindrops

  11 May 08, 02:12

  Prolly stress from parents to excel in school? Singaporean kids are famous for that. i think singapore has one of the highest rates of suicide cases among youth because of stress in school?

• alleggerita

  11 May 08, 02:14

  Originally posted by escadaraindrops:

  Prolly stress from parents to excel in school? Singaporean kids are famous for that. i think singapore has one of the highest rates of suicide cases among youth because of stress in school?

  Talking about suicidal students, I remember clearly a girl from my sec sch last time jumped down from a block of flats opposite our school and died on the spot. Rumoured to be because guys in her class always bully her. 

  Edit: Typo

• FireIce

  11 May 08, 02:20

  �懒觉 no wrong wat.

• alleggerita

  11 May 08, 02:23

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  �懒觉 no wrong wat.

  No way man. His mention of 'lanjiao' definitely not related to sleeping. 

• noahnoah

  11 May 08, 02:25

  Originally posted by alleggerita:

  No way man. His mention of 'lanjiao' definitely not related to sleeping. 

  
  then relate to what

  can put down in details

• FireIce

  11 May 08, 02:25

  伊斯兰教 oso can.

• alleggerita

  11 May 08, 02:29

  Originally posted by noahnoah:

  
  then relate to what

  can put down in details

  After some recalling, he was talking about money and he said his friend is a "lanjiao lang". His friend probably borrowed money from him and didn't return.

  He was also saying he wants to go out to enjoy and have fun and he wants a lot of money. I wonder what is his definition of "enjoy".

• toyota-corolla

  11 May 08, 02:29

  Originally posted by escadaraindrops:

  Prolly stress from parents to excel in school? Singaporean kids are famous for that. i think singapore has one of the highest rates of suicide cases among youth because of stress in school?

  I have to agree parents nowadays are pushing their kids to the limit. I'm not sure about other parents though, but mine is pushing me like hell. No matter how hard I did, it will never please them. So what I'm the top in class? So what I'm the top in term of subjects? So what I've receive so many awards and good remarks testimonials?

  Parents are pretty hard to please nowadays.

   

  Perhaps, parents are the driving stress to their childs nowadays? Not really. We need to factor in the school work. No offence but in my view, everything is moving hella fast in school. You can't afford to miss one lesson, otherwise you will be having a hard time catching up. Perhaps school also plays a part in driving stress to kids?

• Meat Pao

  11 May 08, 13:37

  I also have stress.

  Last night I have a weird dream.

  I think I went to Beirut.

  It was strange.

   

  Meat Pao.

• cuddles

  11 May 08, 13:57

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  �懒觉 no wrong wat.

  lol..

• TooFree

  11 May 08, 19:09

  Stress is experience in everyday's life.

  How can we better alleviate stress then? Anyone?