His idol, Jonathan Winters suffered from depression.
Robin had been in and out of re-hab. He said he went recently even though he was clean and sober. He was grabbing for life lines. But, when someone makes up their mind to do it, there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
I agree about Winters.
I pretty much agree with your comments about Williams too.
There are times in life when humans go through an amazing amount of pain. Nobody but the individual knows the demons they face 1/1000th as intimately as they do. And yet they’ll judge as if they know everything. The more they use this approach, the more they prove how little they know.
It’s easy for folks to dismiss the person who comes to the conclusion additional life isn’t worth living. I am convinced that for some people it truly isn’t.
I do not believe suicide is protected Biblically, so ultimately I don’t think God forgives it. That’s my take on it. He may. It’s not for me to say. It’s a choice the person in pain needs to evaluate for themselves.
There’s a lot to be said about a person perhaps feeling down for a period, then feeling better and going on to live a great subsequent life. Sometimes that isn’t in the cards.
Sometimes the happy moments we want from these people, are more important to us than the hell they may be living through. I am not glad Williams is gone. I am ultimately glad his pain has ended.
I came on this thread today and said I needed to vacate. I have a visceral disgust with people who support Leftists for public office, despite what they may do otherwise in their personal life. In doing so, I may have been very unfair to Williams.
Williams made many people happy with his humor and his dramatic roles. He evidently spent a lot of time entertaining our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. He went to VA hospitals. He was a big supporter of the Wounded Warriors program. He advocated on these people’s behalf. When Christopher Reeves was down and out, Williams stepped in to pay his medical bills. Many people are coming forward to mention kind things he went out of his way to do for them. These many times were things he didn’t have to do. He did them just to pump the other person up, or make their experience in life better. Nobody seems to have anything bad to say about the guy. That’s a massive achievement in it’s own right.
I felt that I should come back and set the record straight even if it does conflict with my first thoughts after hearing he had passed away.
The guy’s heart was unquestionably in the right place on many many occasions. A person like that should be heralded for their better self.
I would be less than I should be, if I didn’t recognize in Robin Williams qualities that all of us should be proud to emulate.