A fine line between life and death?

On Thursday morning, I was going home after a hard day at work. I made my way to the Tube station nearest to me and got through the first part of my journey okay. Everything was running along smoothly as usual – the normal beeline for the last few seats on the carriage (if you’re lucky), albeit discreetly with an ‘I don’t care attitude’ that I consider is necessary to be adopted just in case someone else beats you to it. The train chugged along through the first few stations and then we ground to a halt for quite a while. The driver’s voice finally came on over the speakers, announcing that the train would be held at the platform for quite a while due to an incident at Green Park station. The incident happened to be described as ‘person under train’. This means that someone had probably committed suicide and jumped in front of the train, or some mental person had pushed the individual. In any case, the person is pretty unlikely to have survived.

If this person had committed suicide, what could have pushed an individual to be so depressed in order to do this? Living in a society that appears to have most things going for it, everything works relatively efficiently (I might be wrong), people who are willing to work are guaranteed a minimum wage of sorts, so can take care of themselves. Opportunities are bountiful here I think, so why??? I wish there were someone who could help me understand this.

Medical professionals lead us to understand that depression is a true illness that can’t be helped. It is an ailment that needs ‘treatment’. If there are any medical minds out there, please throw some more light on this issue.

As a Christian, the only explanation I can give for this is deception fed to human beings (created in the image and likeness of God) from a true enemy called the devil. There is a ‘spiritual’ tone to this that for me cannot be explained away. What makes one individual adopt the ‘where there is life, there is hope’ approach, while another adopts the ‘woe is me’ stance? What thoughts run through each mind?
IMHO, our thoughts shape us as individuals, a thought becomes a seed that eventually becomes a desire, and then a real action. Moral of the story for me is – I have to watch and control my thoughts, because what I think and eventually believe strongly enough to say would shape my life.

I welcome any comments on this…What do you think?