Comparing two single women's life..and end thereof

From www.anna morten.com

How one's life is meaningful, or useless, depends on how he/she lives their life. It's a choice, a free will, I reckon (with an exception of those who can't control their depression level due to biological reason beyond their control). I just read in Detiknews about a tragic story few days ago, when a woman, 49 years old, committing suicide by jumping off from Semanggi Flyover during busy working hour in the afternoon. She fell down, bumped into a Trans J bus' roof, hitting another car's roof, before finally kissing the street below the flyover. I couldn't stand to think of the pain she felt before she died.


Just today, there was an information revealed from a family member: a younger sister of her, who told the press that her sister killed herself because she has not been married at that age (49). Oh wow, I know that many people feel stressful about their single life. How frustrated a friend felt when she found herself almost run out of the biological clock; or how frustrated a friend to see her other friends put their children's pictures on the social media, either to show up, or simply just sharing the happy moments with their family and friends. I mean, perhaps it's normal to feel the pressure from our society to get married. But, whoa, could that be a reason for someone to commit suicide? This woman has proved so [unless her sister did not tell the truth to the police]. 


Let's move to a different scenario. This is a story of another single woman. About the same age, forty something. Single, never married. Working as a researcher or something. A friend's friend. She passed away too at similar age, between 45 or 50. Her whole life was spent to help people around her. She lived in a kampung, her neighbors were poor people, because that's all she could afford with her salary. If I'm not mistaken, she lived a very honest and humble life. When provided with opportunity to receive bribe or corrupt, she declined, and she rather lived at the level of her salary, not over. She helped the poor neighbor's child to go to school, she visited her friends during the difficult times, visiting the needy people, gave comfort to those she knew who were in sorrow. Just like she radiated love through her life, the love that she has abundantly. A life, worth to remember. Even long after she died because of cancer, her friends still talk about her humble and valuable life.


What's so different about these two's life? It is on the "Giving life a meaning" part, to their life. The difference is that the other woman has failed to give meaning to her life, while the other one has worked on it very well, and died in dignity.