Its been a week since Actor Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide and the whole nation is still mourning its death. I have not witnessed this much of anger, frustration, outspoken atmosphere before for anybody who has committed suicide. We even mourn the death of our martyrs who fight for our safety for a day or two and we forget but what is it that is connecting the whole nation with Sushant.
Here are the possibilities:
1. Yes he was a great actor and dancer and we all loved his worked.
2. He always seemed happy so his death was a great shock.
3. Most importantly what I feel is that he was a newcommer for Bollywood without any Godfather and created a space for himself with his talent. This is something which makes us all identify with him as a human being. The majority is like him, who tries to achieve his/her dreams in pre-dominated world, faces nepotism, racism, sexism and still succeeds but loses our true souls and individuality because it takes a lot to succeed and defeat these challenges. And this is prevalent in almost all fields and careers.
4. And so when we identify with some person, we try to attach our grief with him and the sad feeling continues...
Lets understand Death with two sets of people, On the one hand, we have youngsters enrolling for Army, Navy, Airforce, who knowingly takes the risk for their life for the sake of their nation and native citizens and on the other hand we have people, mostly youngsters from age group of 16 - 40, considering themselves as failure, committing suicide and taking away the most beautiful blessing of life - YOURSELF.
Having said that I am totally against the ideation behind committing suicide. Yes, a person who does so is obviously not in complete control over mind and most probably suffering from Depression. Yes all of us, in our lives faces certain angel of depression at certain stages of our lives. But I have read real life stories of girls facing sexual abuse since childhood, getting into drugs and depression and recovering from that torture, I have stories of people who became totally handicapped due to accidents and become bed-ridden and getting recovered from depression of losing their bodies, I have read real life stories of people who became suddenly bankrupt and lost everything and recovered from that financial crisis and became millionaires again, I have read real life stories of people who loses their complete family due to some mishappening and recover from the feeling of being alone.
So, now I wonder what made a successful actor like Sushant Singh Rajput who has achieved so much at such a quick pace in his life, who was educated, had a brilliant brain, was so talented as an actor and dancer, who had his father and four sisters with him, who was living in his dream house and was driving his dream machine, had a girlfriend, had good projects in hand, used to talk about science, philosophy, astronomy and what not, had millions of fan - followers, what on Earh can make him do this?
When I heard about it for the complete 1 day I kept on thinking, please this be a wrong news because its not that I was his die-hard fan, but its sad when anybody commits suicide. Hundreds of people are dying everyday due to Covid-19 Pandemic and everyone is praying to get rid of this, to give strength to those who are suffering, to remain safe and heathly because we have a realisation how precious our lives are, we want to live for the people we love, we want to live to fulfil our dreams and most importantly we want to live for ourselves. Then how can a person like him, with all the resources available cannot beat his depression and takes away his own precious life?
Every Media resource today is doing their own set of investigation to gain some TRPs and clicks and creating probable stories.
What according to me could be the reasons are:
1. He was losing work due to nepotism and was unable to face them. In this case his mindset would have been of a person who is not grateful for his achievements but due to the unfulfilled desires of his own next level of success, or the fear of losing further projects, he felt like a loser and committed suicide.
2. He was emotionally depressed due to his love life.
3. He became drug addict and lost his senses and actions.
4. He became financially so weak that he will have to leave all the luxuries that he was enjoying, and the fear of losing his stature that he achieved with so much of hardwork made him kill himself.
I cnt think of any further reasons but even if their might be something else, nothing should become so powerful to control your mind, than yourself.
The biggest issue is with our Education System. Today in these difficult times, everybody is talking about doing Yoga and Meditation, self care, being Humane, Being Positive, and so on.
Why does our Education System not teach these things at the initial stages of life?
If we can teach h a 10 years old how to make a PowerPoint Presentation, &15 years old, the chemical and mathematical formulations; why cant we teach them the importance of Being born as a Human, the philosophy of life, The Power of Yoga, Mediation and Positive Thinking.
The highest number of suicide cases in our country are of children studying in 10th or 12th, preparing for Entrance Exams, pursuing Medical, Engineering or Chartered Accountancy. Then we have women committing suicide due to domestic and sexual violence. Why on Earth cnt we teach people at such an early stage to being Human?
And why cnt our generation who has now become so concious, can teach our kids and laid their foundation so strong that they cna face every adverticity of life?
Talk more to people around you and make your kids your friends. There is no depression and no reason on this Earth that can make a person commit suicide if it gets identified and cured at the right time. Let us lay the foundation of our upcoming generation so strong that they can alone face the problems and lear to move on. Life will become more difficult each day, and so do we all have to prepare our minds and souls for the same. Learn different methods of relaxation techniques, Learn to be grateful, the art of gratitude, teach your children how to face life well in advance, do not let fear take a route inside them, rather make them fierce and human at the same time.
I really wish that someday this post might bring about 1% change in somebody's life and they just give more time to themselves before taking theor own lives.
Do not worry about your education, your career, your financial status, do whats makes you happy, chose a career of your interest, job thT you enjoy, let your relations flourish and you will yourself become a Happy and blossomed soul.
And as I always believe , "Life is short to spread even Love, why to bring in any other emotion to waste few precious minutes."
Every Life is Precious and Every Minute of Life is Precious. Spend it with Love and Affection.
