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  It is a lazy sunday summer afternoon as I place my bag on the lustrous teak wood table. I let out a mental sigh!  It requires Herculean effort to retrieve my laptop for work. I am a regular at the Longchamp cafe. It is normal for that cafe to play slow jazz while customers enjoy a cup of coffee but somehow the song , “Somewhere only we know”, booms on the speakers and breaks the monotonous commotion inside. In a split second, I transcend back to his arms. The song floods memories that are ready to pour out of my eyes. The barista snaps me out of my misery. He towers over the counter as he motions me to try the newly brewed concoction waiting on my table. I comply to do the needful as I am one of his unbiased coffee connoisseurs. The aroma of simmering hot coffee permeates my nose, calming my nerves.  I gulp down the bittersweet realisation. It has been close to two long months since I’ve last heard from him. It would be wishful thinking that our brief encounter would et...

Sanity, the New Society




Sometimes it is important to let your heart out and it is important to tell people how you feel. But we don’t always do that, right? As humans, we are fighting our own battles in our own way and I don’t think anyone in this world is available for the other person. Everybody is so soaked up in his/her life, so much that no-one wants to know what the people around feel.

So recently a very famous person who existed in some industry took his life because he thought that ending his life is better than the pain he was going through. Immediately after the news got out people started acting up on social media, started posting things related to mental health and nepotism that exist in the industry. People started posting on their social accounts, “If someone needs to talk and needs any help, my door is open for you.” I just want to ask you one thing, Really? And why suddenly your doors are open for people who are suffering from a long time now. Now when someone famous took his life because of the issue, you started thinking that it is a big one and it needs to be addressed? Have you guys ever tried to communicate with the people with mental health issues before this? Before all this, they were treated like some mad people who cry and don’t know how to fight back in life.

Do you know things just don’t work like that? A person who is facing a depression can’t just come to you and say that he is depressed, because then you will start judging him for the reason he is depressed. It doesn’t work like that in our society where people are selfish and all they want is best for themselves. A person can’t reach out and let his heart out to you just like that. But as a society, we need to fight this, and the question is how? Stop! Just stop treating people with health issues like they are some retards, stop thinking that problems in other's life don’t matter and stop being selfish.

One of the major problems is that we as a society just shout on social media, we just want to gain the attention of others, but when it comes to helping and doing something, we are shouting about we take a step back. We as a society fails when it comes to acting, acting on the thing we think is wrong. We know how to shout and how to create social awareness, but fail when we need to help any person personally. We expect others to be kind to us when we ourselves can’t be kind towards others. We fail a lot of people in a year who suffer from depression, anxiety, and stress, but we only tend to raise our voice when someone famous is involved. I am sorry my friend, but all of us need to change at our level first, we need to change our way of life.

Lastly, I want to say, if you feel like there is nothing more to live for and everything seems to be coming to an end, please rethink. If you think that talking to someone can help, try talking to your close ones. I know people are inviting and lending a hand that they are there to help, but I also know it’s not easy to open up as a lot of things try to tangle when you are depressed. Your close ones might not have the solution, but at least they will always be there to listen and to help you out. Please don’t sit alone and let things multiply in your head. We failed a celeb by not getting the signs he was throwing at us and we fail a lot of other Sushant’s out there every year. It’s my request please start looking out for people out there, please start trying to understand them. Maybe you can make a difference. Maybe!

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