Sona,
I have so much to say...and so little idea how to exactly say it. This was soul-clawing, with every scrape digging off a new piece of our souls.
What you've portrayed is something that's a very common occurrence nowadays. I'm ashamed to admit that I've hardened over the years...
I can't say if it was a reflex or it came with the 'growing up' that we do. But I did, that is, come to watch things like this with an eerie detachment.
I was wrong.
We may try to fool yourselves, that we are done being affected by things like this but the stark truth is- We DO care a damn!
Every side to a story has a flaw!
People who trample over others, humiliate them, throw around their weight just to fan their ego and entertain themselves are the sickest kind there ever is.
Drinking and driving, ganging up against a single person, physically beating up someone to prove your strength...
None of this makes a person anymore MACHO n COOL than making a dog who stands next to a car, the chauffeur.
They should stop effin' deluding themselves.
People who take the oppression, bear it silence, refuse asking help from elders cause that makes them pansies who are unable to handle their own problems...are WRONG too!
Asking for help doesn't make you weak! It shows that you're sensible enough to realize that the problem can't be tackled at your level.
Parents ain't listening? Approach your teachers, other elders...
Infact, tell your friends!!! Friends are pretty handy when it comes to sharing problems and sucking out all the GRAY in ur life.
There is always an option! Always!
Reminds me of the quote, "There's no problem that we -God and Me, can't handle together."
Life is precious. Throwing it away for people who've got shit(NO)balls is agreeing that they've got more power over your life than you do. Which they abso-f**king-lutely DON'T!
I know am going tangent ...But if u've got friends, relatives contemplating suicide to evade their problems; Go hug them, make them feel loved, listen to their woes and deal with their problems if they ain't able to deal it on their own.
Sona, beautifully written! It's always a delight reading your work. I'm one of your greatest fans, laziest maybe, but greatest still! 😉
Thanks for this. It just showed me that somewhere deep inside I'm not as immune as I'd like to be. 🤗
PS- Randomly, Have you considered writing for Chicken Soup for the soul series?? You should! 😃PPS- I wanna add that sometimes there are people who think 'Attempt to suicide' is the next "IN" thing. Teenagers...who try slitting their wrists cause they break up with their boyfriends, who purposely drink bottles of chemicals knowing that the other party'll feel guilty...
Its NOT DONE!
Succumbing to ACTUAL PRESSURE and taking ur life is one thing; Making a mockery of life by fooling around is another.
SO GROW SOME BRAINS and stop being so bird-brained! You may not actually care that such stunts can cause you harm, but your family does. 😡 Edited by Lhethal.Me - 13 years ago