how much setbacks can one take?

well, seems that the guy who brought out the sar21 has a really troubled life...

1. parents divorced - mother left, father in jail
2. younger bro died in car accident
3. grannie who brought him up diagnosed with cancer
4. gf left him while serving ns - leaving for a better guy is one thing, a "lousier" one is another, but for another girl takes the cake... (well, what do i know, right?)

everyone whom he has ever loved is almost gone... quite alot for one to take, while others would have broken down for less... (point 4 being reason enough to push many over the edge)... not condoning his actions in anyway... but just trying to understand why he would do it... i mean no one in the right frame of mine would even seriously contemplate doing what he did...

it's easy to criticise now... but we'll see again if the same thing ever happens to ourselves... i'd admit i found it quite unbelievable at the lengths he went... but thats before i heard points 1 thru 3... it's very sad la....

still, there's always God to turn to in times like these... hopefully some of his friends are christians and can share that truth with him... guess only God knows how much he's hurting and is the only one able to completely heal those wounds...

seems there's a online petition going around for him... appealing for a lighter sentence... if u feel for him or wadever....
http://www.webpetitions.com/cgi-bin/print_petition.cgi?99501537

hmm... legitimate foul? .... maybe it's more of understandable foul...

ah well, so much for people to keep me sane during my own ns... lol....