World Suicide Prevention Month

Written By Nishtha Tikalal | September 11, 2020

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Suicide is defined as the act or an instance of taking one’s life, whether it be voluntarily or intentionally. However, it has been molded to fit this fact for a very long time.

Suicide can be said to be an escape of some sort, a sacrifice. This word can be applied to a plethora of things on an infinite spectrum. However, its only use is as a social happening. This word has been re-arranged to fit the fashion that if one isn’t able to contribute purpose to life, then there is no reason that one should be in it. It is quite unclear whether there is logic to death. To find out, one would simply have to try.

Trying, however, is not right. It doesn’t necessarily mean that one is crazy, but life should most definitely be lived to the fullest. This doesn’t mean to party hard or to rebel against the law, or any of that stereotyped madness. To do this, one can just simply just get up in the morning. Your days are what you make it out to be. In life, one cannot learn to walk without tripping. If one has never tripped, it can be said that one has not yet walked. Soon, one will learn to control their body, so they don’t trip as often. Point is, life is and isn’t trial and error. To succeed you have to fail. To die, one must live. One can’t be dead and want to die, but one can most certainly be living and want to live.

For what purpose exactly? That is yet to be discovered. Create your own reason, and make sure it is indeed a good one, for both yourself and those who surround you in your life. They may be family or friends, they may not. One may not even know them, or acknowledge their existence, but they are there. One just has to look.