MetLife Building

It's interesting to flip through the pages of books that chronicle things like the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and see images of Wall Street, and stumble upon captions that say things like, "One time a symbol of prosperity, Wall Street was also the setting for countless suicides as bankers and investors alike plunged to their deaths."

I find myself wondering if things are really that bad in these trying times. People abuse the cliche that history tends to repeat itself, and maybe it does. On Tuesday, a 36 year old man shattered a window in his 17th floor office with a chair and jumped to his death (MetLife Building). Actions like this perpetuate the Santayana quote,"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

It's difficult to swallow. I mean the shock hasn't completely set in. I like to think a lot has changed since 1929 and lives have gotten better, but when something like that happens in the building that you work, it makes you wonder. It's just surreal. I wonder when books are written about this financial time if this will be a trend that authors will be forced to address.