Reply #81: This sounds so much like the COO of our company (RIP)

[CLANG]

Sometimes we are bright and cheery and energetic and we get ourselves into positions of great visibility and responsibility. Looking for meaning in a meaningless life, perhaps.

We make tons and tons of "friendships," most of them superficial. But there isn't anyone we share our inner hopelessness, our inner (perceived) worthlessness with. But lots of people know us, care about us, etc.

And then people start to (as we see it) rely on us to do all kinds of things. We're overextended. We made promises we can't keep (we think,) because it's just too much.

And the only way out of the mess we've created for ourselves, all these people relying on us, expecting stuff from us, needing us to do important things, is to make the Ultimate Excuse: "I'm sorry, I can't do that, I'm dead."

//SNIP//

He was all that. Nobody (except maybe his wife) saw it coming - he was so successful and seemingly happy. And he had an entire corporation depending on him like no other.

So damn sad. He was the greatest person in the world.