Hello… brilliant brains, before designing death… look around!

Yesterday, I read a piece of news about a student researcher  in engineering field committing suicide in one of the premier engineering institutes of India located in Jharkhand. The rumored reason has love angle. Now that he is gone, his parents are left with only the painful reminiscence of a brilliant son because of whom they were party to much happiness in their lives.

It is not that people don’t commit suicide but the thing that bothers more in this case is about the involvement of a guy who was doing his research and doing research means that he had done his graduation and his P.G, so a certain level of maturity is expected of him. I mean we hear news about students succumbing to study pressures at lower rung of educational stairs, but if somebody commits suicide at almost the utmost level of studies, then he should be examined as an example as to whether the scintillating educational achievements provide necessary succor to deal with the real problems of life.

The problems that can be termed the real McCoy of the practical world.

Agreed that demon of the brain can pulverize the logical thinking but if a guy doing a research program kneels down before the demons, then as a society we seriously need to ruminate about the mental salubrity of the achievers who live beneath the veneer of polymathic air in society.  Why we should worry about the self-eliminatory attempts by these brilliant brains is that if they are alive then they can contribute positively to the society in a way that could be inimitable and unprecedented in nature.

What I feel, and it is entirely my opinion which can be termed entirely unfounded as well, is that being brilliant gives you a sense that mentally you are indomitable. And when you feel mentally crippled, you feel it beneath your dignity to realize that you can also lose a fight in life, given you have been overcoming all educational hurdles so far.

Actually, life is not a one pronged challenge but a multi -pronged contest. So, the technique for one type of challenge is not that effective for other type of test. So, it is necessary to adapt oneself in different situations. And for once if you stop feeling special or gifted and bother to look around, you will find many reasons to feel ashamed about thinking to design your death.

When some brilliant brain is deciding to design his/her death, they must look around and see that people are struggling to have even a normal life and normal happiness in that life.

There is one organization that does the fundraising work for people in physical distress along with other financial distresses. Reading about the stories at their website  can give one feeling about how lucky one is to be alive and kicking. 

This is just one site, if you rummage around the web and around the social milieu, you might find plethora of such instances that will help take the mind away from suicidal thoughts.

Thing is that no one has come on the earth to live forever, we have to die. We will die anyway in accidents, in natural calamities, through ailments and diseases. So why put mind to design death, why not put your mind to design life!

I think that everybody should act responsibly towards their family and think about others who are not that well off in terms of living the life and this will give a reason to shun the thought of suicide at the overpowering moment and once the menacing suicidal thoughts are over, the sun of life will smile proudly on you to have chosen life from next day.

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