Suicides Have Trippled People are flawed. There's no question no ones perfect. Be it the highly educated lawyer or professor or business owner, the high school drop out, the stay at home mom with kids, the person just starting in the work force. People aren't perfect. So people with all their insecurities, hopes, aspirations and dreams, people embrace those things that society tells us we must achieve and thus reinforces the notion 'we are special, bright and worthy'. After all I can then accept myself and my flaws more easily as I struggle thru life. We pretend that a fancy degree, or big fast car, huge homes and lots of kids, makes one think one is whole and complete and successful. To control those around us, add some finger pointing, hate speech, a power filled position, and the authority to manipulate & control others to a degree using our position, gossip, it makes one feel that they are deserving, stable and righteous in how they feel about the