Here's the thing, I see the situation a little differently than most. Everyone is giving him sympathy in the other thread. That isn't gonna do him any good, if anything just the exact opposite. When I was younger I dropped out of college and wasn't really doing much of anything with my life. It was depressing, not having any direction or motivation, a sense of purpose. My mother would say, "don't worry honey, you'll do something when you're ready". That certainly didn't motivate me, all that did was make me feel content, like its normal and everything is ok. My friends didn't help, we were too busy partying and getting home at 4am.
One day my brother walked up, completely straight faced, and sucker punched me. I went down like a sack of shit. He didn't say a word, just walked off. He didn't have to, I knew why he hit me. He didn't approve of the way I was going about my life, and as my big brother felt it was his job to say so. I laid there in that hallway for some time, I didn't even want to get up. But I started making changes in my life after that, not just because I didn't like getting punched in the face, but I knew that he was right.
You see, people respond to strenuous situations. Take your muscles for example. A lot of people here lift weights to get stronger or bigger. Now let me ask those of you who lift, do you sit in the corner and caress your arms and legs gently, rubbing them over and over again waiting for them to grow? No, you don't. Why? Well because that doesn't produce results. Just like my mother telling me everything is going to be ok didn't get me off my ass. Instead you go to the gym and lift heavy objects. When you lift weights you're basically tearing muscle fibers. You put your body under stress and it responds. Your body doesn't like its muscle fibers torn, so it does something about it. Your body fixes the fibers you have torn. But since it was a stressful situation that your body doesn't want to happen again, it puts an extra layer of muscle fibers over the old to try and prevent a reoccurrence. You keep beating those muscles down, and they keep coming back bigger and stronger.
So why is it we keep giving him sympathy and compassion, is it really going to help the situation?