a little boy somewhere in a slovakian village amidst the mountains - - -

on my trip to vienna last week, i met an old old friend...he told me about a little boy who shot himself in the head due to some stress he got from getting low grades at school...it was very disheartening to know/realise a little boy - 10 year old - shooting himself in a tiny slovakian village...somewhere in the mountains...where i hoped the stress of this world/this life hadnt reached...it is almost like the competitive stress that is associated with cities...

and then i wonder how remote are the remote villages? is there much difference there to our life of mental supremacy in the cities?

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