Yes, that's what I thought of as well... It would be very difficult to think that way. I'm not sure if women are falling all over him because of his disfigured face, but he probably is getting a lot of attention. Hopefully he finds a good woman, like you said.


This kind of thing reminds me of many similar stories of people having to face death to rediscover life. There was a kid who jumped off of the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco (a bridge many people commit suicide from each year). The majority of people die, but this kid somehow lived. He said the last thing he thought of as he was falling was how much he regretted jumping. In the video, he seemed to have changed his life around and is grateful to be alive. It's really a change of perspective that needs to happen. There are people starving in the world who are fighting to survive each day and would give anything to be in any one of our shoes on this forum. Yet, many of us (I know I'm guilty of this), fall into spells of depression and suicidal ideation.

If you haven't seen the movie "Everest," it's a great movie based on the disastrous 1996 Everest expedition. One of the men climbing that day was Beck Weathers, a cardiologist from Texas. In the movie he was left for dead and basically had to walk down on his own with frozen hands and face. He was left for dead twice and still managed to survive. He and another guy were the first to get rescued at a record altitude by helicopter. The helicopter could barely manage to float at that altitude.

Well, I was intrigued by his story, so I bought his book (Left for Dead - again, highly recommended). In it he talks about his constant struggles with depression before his "accident" on Everest. He had climbed many mountains trying to find his happiness. He felt he had to put himself in these highly dangerous situations in order to feel alive, and when he was home, he would fall into great spells of depression that were ruining his relationships/marriage. He said the experience on Everest changed his life and made him realize all he had and how precious it was. He started loving his wife and children more than ever before and basically became a changed man. All with two hands and a nose missing. They managed to grow a nose on his forehead and attach it to where his nose used to be. He has some sort of hook device on another hand... but... the man is alive and very happy to be here.

I feel like we have all some great unhappiness in us that motivates us to do what we do in life. Some paths are immediately destructive, some take longer to unwind.