Dear Zindagi,
I have already told you how you’ve made me
experience such beautiful phases in my life and here I want to discuss some
personal experiences when people have felt that you don’t hold any importance
for them and have become a burden for them. It’s not a story about people who
are unknown but these have been my near and dear ones.
Suicides…This
term itself makes us feel depressed and we do not even like to talk about it.
We never discuss these cases with our family members and we never even expect
any of our family members to think about such a thing ever but this crime
cannot be ignored or avoided.
If I check the suicide stats, there are cases
recorded every 40 seconds which means that out of 1,00,000 people, 16 people
commit suicide. This is saddening to hear but it does happen. Every case has
something to say and we feel that these things can never happen to our
families. However, we need to speak out our minds to our closed ones to make
them realize what we feel about life, what we feel about zindagi and discuss
these basic things.
There are so many people who criticize those
who kill them selves as it’s the most easiest step to take but we should
consider those reasons that have made them take such a drastic step. We need to
hear their story and that’s what I did when my close relative shared her story
with me. She told me that she has been through hell all her life and how she
had lost trust in the term LIFE. It had become a burden for her as she had not
only been ill treated by her parents and in laws, but her husband had too been
rude to her and used to physically abuse her since she got married. She told me
how to she went through so much pain all alone and she also tried to take her
own life when she was expecting since 3 months. She went to the tracks to take
her life but as she walked to the railway track, her inner voice stopped her
from proceeding and this inner voice came from her stomach. The unborn baby
called her back and asked her to not take away its life as it had not even seen
the real world and experienced life. This was a purpose that she had got to
continue her life and she came back and walked to survive for her child. She
restored her belief in you and the reason was the new life that was dependent
on hers.
There are many cases where people who lose
hope in you (in life) come back and those steps that they take to come back to
life are the ones that make them strong to live and it gives them a reason to
live. We all must have experienced this in our life and must have felt
depressed at times (may the reasons be lost love, unemployment, health-related
issues or personal problems) and some people stand strong through these issues
while some just lose hope and give up. Giving up does not mean they are weak
but it’s the purpose of living that has been taken away from them.
Zindagi, through this letter, I wish and pray
that people do not lose hope in you and you give that purpose to them so that
they too trust you. I hope you can give it to them so that there are no more
suicides that take place.
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