suicide

i am here at Cal State Fullerton for the second day of the JACC (Journalism Association of Community Colleges) SoCal Competition. it's an event where journalism students from community colleges in socal come together to compete in different areas such as photography, newswriting, designing layout, etc. i'll write more about that in the next post, but first i want to talk about an article i read in the Daily Titan yesterday. 

it was on the front page and the headline read something like "suicide among asian american women on the rise." it immediately caught my attention. one of the professors at fullerton did a research on women and suicide and she found out that the rate of suicide in asian women increases as women get older. the professor said that it's because asian women have really high expectations that they must meet. overall, they are pressured to be good at everything. wow! that's how i've been feeling these days! ... all my life! haha. and i can't say that i haven't thought about suicide, but i think that's normal. it wasn't anytime recently but i definitely feel a lot of pressure to be good at every aspect of my life- as a student, daughter, sister, person, etc. but i thought everyone else felt that way... so what makes us crack??

it's all in the way we deal with our stress and pressure. the professor did mention that women exercise, meditate, get involved, etc to cope with their stress but i wonder what it is for asian women that makes us so vulnerable to ourselves... i mean, bc other women obviously have similar problems. it must be the way we deal with it. we need to rise up, asian women of the world!! reach out for help! reach out to the community! get involved and lets live....