Suicide… Is It right?

It is very often said that something doesn’t really affect you till it hits you. The same is with the word “SUICIDE”. Till now it was just a word that scared me until my own brother decided to do it a couple of years ago. There is nothing in this world which can justify an act of taking one’s own life, yet nobody knows why people do it. As painful it may sound to anyone the fact of the matter is that it not only kills the person, but also the whole family trying to accept and come to terms with the tragedy. However, to take another view of the entire episode, I would like to talk about it with a different perspective of why sometimes it may be a personal choice to just “QUIT”.

     To be very honest, human life is too complicated. I think a lot of people would agree with me on this point. To be born as a human itself is full of bondages created by other beings. Right from going to school, what food to eat, which friends to make and a lot more revolves around making others happy and fulfilling the societal norms. In the whole process, I believe an individual most often forgets to live for himself or rather he doesn’t even understand what he wants to do in life. This creates more conflict in his mind and many times a sort of confusion about what he is supposed to do. Many times, an individual is not allowed to choose the life he/she wants to live, but is constantly pressurised by the noble term “Family Responsibility”. As great it may sound, the term is no less than an abstract form of poison which may be threatening to a lot of people.  In a typical Indian society this term either for parents towards their children or children expecting it from their parents- both ways-it is just building a lazy, taken-for-granted mindset which doesn’t allow individuals to grow for themselves. In such an environment, adults only want to earn money to raise a family and nothing beyond that.

    Amidst this grinding, a lot of us live with a guilt of not being able to do well and a dissatisfaction of not earning well especially when there is constant comparison within the extended family members. The hypocrite society doesn’t allow you to breathe if you are just a mediocre. In many cases, the parents failure of not doing well in their life is automatically transferred on to their children which indirectly creates pressure on them to become the money making machine. Coming from a middle -class society myself, I don’t live a single day without thinking about how to survive without earning a steady income. In such a scenario, we see a lot of people failing to go ahead in life and decide to end everything once and for all.

    From my perspective, I don’t justify that committing suicide is a solution to anything, but at the same time it may be the last choice left for a person to get some mental peace. It is a personal choice made by someone who doesn’t have the strength to continue with the load of responsibilities. It may be the only courageous move by an individual who doesn’t wish to continue with the legacy of taking unnecessary pressure or living in a society where he isn’t allowed to live for himself. I think finally my brother would be up there enjoying the share of peace that he couldn’t get when he was alive!!

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