He had an infectious smile, and he made it to the silver screen through a lot of hard work. Not sure what went wrong, but he isn’t with us anymore. I was looking forward to seeing his movie ‘Dil Bechara,’ which was an adaptation of the English book "The Fault in Our Stars." What really was hard to watch was seeing his aged father drag himself, holding his relative's hand, to perform the funeral of his actor son. It takes a moment to decide to give up on life but takes a while to think what impact it might have on the people who truly love you. Does that old man deserve this sorrow of losing his 34-year-old actor son?
Research studies say that most of the suicides in India are impulsive in nature that result from failing an exam, a quarrel with family or a boyfriend or husband. Long-term depression goes untreated because it is still a taboo to talk about it. When I was in high school, I felt very stressed about a hostile environment in the school I was studying in. The doctor whom my mom took me to scolded me when I told her I was feeling depressed. She said, “Don’t use the word depressed.” That day I shut my mouth and never felt comfortable discussing depression for several years.
But changes happen, and favourable seasons do come. Find people to talk to, try to think positively in life, don’t threaten loved ones in the name of suicide. There is always someone who will listen.
Someone listened to me; someone will listen to you too, but don’t stop trying to live.
"The Fault in Our Stars" is a wonderful book where two teenage cancer patients fall in love when they meet in a support group. They were terminally ill and knew they haven’t much of a life ahead of them, but they try to live life to the fullest and spread love. All they wanted was to live, but life was being cruel to them, not giving them an option. But for many of us, luckily, life is not that cruel; it throws challenges, hardships, loneliness, sarcasm, criticism, etc., at us, but it also gives an option to break them all and emerge undaunted. Choose to do the latter, and trust me, it will make you stronger, happier, or you may also become that little change that will inspire many other drowning lives at the verge of giving up to fight back the tides and swim to the shore.
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