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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Existing battle for existence
         ...If it is heads, I win; If it is Tails, you lose!


I'm back after a long while..

Recently, rather yesterday, a very captivating, though very bad bad, news struck my batch-mates. It went on like this..
A boy named XYZ had received the joining date of ABC company (for this very reason that didn't yet receive the joining date he was very nervous and frustrated). Couple of days later, somewhere around mid week, he was over excited hearing the news that he had been called to join ABC on Monday, tomorrow. He was happy and made himself busy in the joining the company preparations. I'm saying here that he was happy because this is what we friends perceived from his very acts and behavior then. Things were going smoothly, everyone busy in their own lives and XYZ calling some heads rarely, as he usually did, saying that there was fear prevailing in him about the new company, the new city, the new life. Our friends tried their best to erase this orthodox thinking lines from him and they were successful, at least, seem to be.
Suddenly, on Sunday afternoon, everybody's phone rang and the news that XYZ had committed a suicide spread much more than wild fire. Nobody, including I, want to pen down how the process of so called 'Suicide' was executed as it is much much more than just pity.

This post is not just to mention the incident or for the sake of posting a Breaking News or for any intentional News spreading motto. But, being a citizen of India, I have something to say with authority. Rather, I've something to express my concern about. This series of student suicide is becoming popular in lines as of the TV serials 'Kunku' or 'Chaar divas Sasuche' (Marathi) or 'Taarak Mehta ka Ulta chesma'(Hindi) etc. This train of student suicide is also running on a parallel track to the one of farmer suicides.
But my deepest concern is that where the popularity of the TV serials is just an illusion or it has no direct relation to the mortality of a country and in regards to the farmers suicide, there are means which if followed by the governing body might curb the rate farmers suicide, if not reduce drastically (Although the issue of, the means 'to be' followed by the governing body is of much more concern), there are no such means which the governing body can follow which can help to reduce, and not only curb, the mortality of this young red blood. I can base my views on the fact that making the youth 'strong', is an individual responsibility rather than shirking i onto the governing body. It is the responsibility of the parents, who are the very reason of increasing the head count of a nation by one, to teach the new being, the way to 'live'. And this should be done, right through the childhood and not when the youth start flying away from their very ones and very things and become independent, at least try to be. When it comes to suicide, the strength of the individual comes into the picture and by saying strength I mean to collect all the strengths one can have under one canopy, the mental, emotional, ethical, logical, psychological, etc and physical coming at the last.
I healthily urge the parents, to imbibe in their children, the very fact that
'This World is a very better place, unless you think so..' and teach them appropriate way to live. It might happen that this is difficult, as the way to live are very few which can be put into the young minds but the counter parts, ways to die are countless...It is the battle of the existence and of the non existence, the later trying to behold the former is all possible ways...

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