US Olympic Medalist Kelly Catlin Dies at Age 23

[KY_EnviroGuy]

24. We will never know an exact cause but it's important to accept responsibility.

After reviewing an article in the Denver Post on this tragedy as well as her Wikipedia bio, this causes me to reflect on what our society does to far too many of our youth with our demands for extreme entertainment and the push for greater and greater achievement with no end.

She was also recovering from a recent concussion and was under substantial pressure to do more. So, I ponder and ask myself this:

What right do we have to pressure others to perform to our satisfaction?

This young woman was an accomplished academic with degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Chinese, and was enrolled for studies towards a graduate degree in Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. She was a member of the U.S. women’s pursuit team that won a silver medal during the 2016 Olympic Games.

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A graduate student at Stanford, Catlin was pursuing a degree in computational and mathematical engineering while training for track as a member of the national team and racing as a professional road cyclist. She described in a recent VeloNews blog post on how she manages three intense pursuits, writing that she sometimes felt as if she needed “to time-travel to get everything done. And things still slip through the cracks.”

I myself have suffered to a lesser degree with this problem, as society fails to evaluate and accept our personality type or mental characteristics, our deep personal desires and ambitions but most importantly, our mental, physical and emotional limitations and what each of us really needs to be happy and content.

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