Why Look At The Dark Side Of Life

Life may tough sometimes. Life may be rosy sometimes. Life may be pressurizing sometimes. Life may be meaningful sometimes. Whatever the conditions life dawns upon us, it comes with a mandatory condition of death. So why seek death when it will come looking for us eventually?

Today, I was at the scene where someone wanted to commit suicide because of some reason. He was standing at the ledge of the roof of a 4 storey building. There were a group of onlookers. His every action brought about screams and panic as the onlookers worried for him. Some onlookers were quite skeptical about the suicide attempt, saying that he would not die by jumping off from such a low building. I thought otherwise. Finally, the SCDF managed to pull him away from the ledge and brought him to safety.

I wondered what made him want to end his life. What was it that he could not handle and thus he had to jump? Was it because of relationship? Was it because of money? Was it because of work stress? Whatever the reason was, I felt that there would definitely be an answer. All we needed to do was to look for it.

In life, the really lucky ones are born with a silver spoon, great family, great health, a beautiful mind and a gorgeous physique. The average ones are able to spend some years in formal education and work hard till they drop. The less fortunate ones may have to spend the rest of their lives using life support systems. Although the lifestyles are different, each has their own set of problems and each has their own way of searching for happiness. This is the beauty about life.

Life is already very short. Don’t shorten it.