David Foster Wallace's description of a person in a burning building struck me deeply. That said most people killing themselves are not in fact in a burning bu

David Foster Wallace's description of a person in a burning building struck me deeply. That said most people killing themselves are not in fact in a burning building; they just think they are. I've never considered suicide but I remember being deeply unhappy as a teenager. it's not that looking back on it I can't see why but at the time I didn't know why. I'd consider my circumstances and realize that whatever problems I had were both trivial and fixable but still feel utterly miserable. The thing that frightened me was the idea that I would lose that perspective. Now though, now I'm an old man. I know that at some point the odds are good that I'm going to be in that burning building for real and I don't know what I'll do.