"If you don't buy milk tea, I will jump off the building" is it angry words or a sign? The truth behind the shopping mall tragedy is revealed
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How can a cup of milk tea kill someone these days? The incident at the Yangzhou shopping mall is still frightening when I think about it now. A lively girl was gone just because of a cup of milk tea. This incident really makes people angry and sad - I am angry because the girl is so depressed, and I am sad because of the unspeakable pain behind it.
Who among us has not struggled over a few dollars? Who among us has not had an argument with our significant other? But who would have thought that these trivial matters could become the last straw that broke the camel's back? In the final analysis, it is because our generation is too tired to live. The grievances, anxieties, and helplessness accumulated in our hearts are like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger, until one day, with a "bang", they all explode.
In the afternoon of a shopping mall in Yangzhou, a loud noise tore through the hustle and bustle. 23-year-old Lin Yue (pseudonym) jumped from the third floor, her leopard print suspenders and black trousers drew a cruel arc in the fall. At the moment when her sneakers flew off, the screen of her mobile phone was still lit with an unsent dialog box. This girl, described by an eyewitness as "a girl who looked like she walked out of the cover of a fashion magazine", her life was forever frozen in the consumption choice between Cha Yan Yue Se and Mixue Bingcheng .
According to eyewitnesses, the tragedy began with a dispute over a cup of milk tea. Lin Yue insisted on drinking the 22-yuan Cha Yan Yue Se tea, but her boyfriend thought the 10-yuan Mixue Bingcheng tea was more cost-effective. When the dispute escalated into a threat of "jumping off the building if you don't buy it," onlookers thought it was just a couple's angry words. It wasn't until the security guard checked the surveillance that they found that Lin Yue had repeatedly swiped her phone before climbing over the guardrail, and there was an unpaid light luxury brand dress in the shopping cart, while her boyfriend was looking down and calculating the mortgage repayment reminder.
In the eyes of psychologists, this tragedy is a microcosm of the spiritual dilemma of contemporary youth. Lin Yue's social media updates show that she worked three jobs at the same time to repay her student loans, but her closet was filled with the same items as those of internet celebrities without tags removed. This "exquisite poverty" lifestyle is essentially a projection of self-identity anxiety. When she stood on the third floor of the mall wearing a borrowed leopard print suspender, she was holding not only her mobile phone, but also the unbearable material expectations and emotional needs.
What is even more alarming is that before Lin Yue jumped off the building, she frequently searched for "painless death methods", and her browsing history was interspersed with workplace PUA self-descriptions and debt collection text messages. This reveals a cruel truth: it was never a cup of milk tea that crushed her, but the long-accumulated psychological burden that broke out in a specific situation. As a psychiatrist said: "Contemporary young people are like pressure cookers. Under the seemingly intact appearance, any blocked pore may cause an explosion."
This incident has torn open the cracks in social values. When the dispute over the price of milk tea turns into a gender-based verbal battle, and when the discussion of "should we commit suicide for material things" replaces the focus on mental health, we are collectively trapped in the quagmire of cognitive bias. Lin Yue's tragedy is like a mirror: it reflects the colonization of the spiritual world by consumerism, the loss of emotional communication , and the long-term absence of life education.
So, my friends, we really need to think about this. Life is as fragile as glass, and it will break at the slightest touch. Don't always think, "If you're not afraid of death, what else can you be afraid of?" When it really comes to that, it will be too late to regret. We need to learn to free ourselves, and not let consumerism, face-saving projects, etc., suffocate us.
Also, we have to learn to listen to our inner voice. If you feel tired, take a break; if you feel wronged, cry; if you feel you can't bear it anymore, talk to someone. Don't always carry it alone. You can bear it today and tomorrow, but what about the day after tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow? We have to learn to love ourselves, which is more important than loving anyone else.
Finally, I want to say that this tragedy is not the end, it should be a wake-up call. Let us all wake up and stop taking life lightly. Living well is better than anything else. What do you think?
