I sit here wondering about the kid at Rutgers that committed suicide the other day…I hear the media decrying the lack of privacy in our daily lives, i.e. Facebook, Twitter, blah, blah, blah…Let’s get real about what happened to this poor kid…Setting the scene,

He is a young kid dropped into the pressure cooker that is college life…He has leanings towards a homosexual lifestyle but, feels the angst of disappointing his parents, friends, society, whichever or maybe more…His “friends” decide that it would be funny to stream an encounter the kid has with another male on the Internet…When the kid finds out, he is distraught and seeing no other alternative, takes his life.

Forty Years Ago,

He is a young kid dropped into the pressure cooker that is college life…He has leanings towards a homosexual lifestyle but, feels the angst of disappointing his parents, friends, society, whichever or maybe more…His “friends” find out about an encounter the kid has with another male and tell everybody they can about it…When the kid finds out, he is distraught and seeing no other alternative, takes his life.

I, by no stretch of the imagination, mean to minimize the tragedy that happened…My point is that kids are still kids…By their nature they will do things that cause terrible results…This may have been intentional, maybe not…The problems arises when we think this is the only kid that decided to end his life because of the embarrassment of a situation…If you look, it happened within one hundred miles of you in the last month.

It happens, not because of lack of privacy.