What I am going to write in this blog will not make you more wealthy than what you can be. It will neither make you knowledgeable than what you are now nor will it make you more popular. But if it helps any of you to get over some hard times in life I will be more than happy. I would like to describe a bad experience which I recently had and give my views on how to use it to improve the quality of life.

Since I am currently a final year engineering student, I am describing it from such a point of view. Recently (say 4 months back) one of my schoolmates committed suicide. The guy had all the famous bad habits (smoking, drinking and drugs too I heard) even while we were in the tenth grade. He was fighting with the staff and even the local rowdies many times during his school days.When he and his friend were there in our class we would take the footballs from even our seniors and start playing in the school ground and the seniors would leave the ground. Such was their fame during school days.

The circumstances that led to his ill-advised decision were these: He stole a necklace of his mother and mortgaged it in his friend’s pawn shop and spent the money in ways u could easily guess. When he didn’t pay the monthly due in the fourth month, his friend’s uncle came to his house and informed the parents. Thats when they realised the loss of a jewel and they gave him a piece of their mind(expect any different?). He immediately committed suicide.

I had always thought that this guy didn’t know fear. But inside his heart, he had been a coward. I do not want to disrespect the dead here but what I am telling is the hard to digest fact. When some of his friends went to condole his death his mom cried to them and blamed them for not mending her son’s ways. It was then that they felt really bad and pondered what they could have done earlier. Yes, the majority of the blame lies on the parents who couldn’t raise him properly, but the friends and classmates who spend a lot of time with him could have done more for him than chatting (mainly gossips) and taking him along for treats.

Only then I understood that suicide has become an ever-spreading epidemic taking emotional and weak-hearted people along the way. As we are nearing the end of our college life, we will have to take a lot of responsibilities. Some of us might reach the top of the ‘wealthy ladder’ while some of us might lead a normal middle-class life.

But there might also be some who struggle to make ends meet. It might be because we couldn’t find a job or were dumped by the MNC which hired us for some reason. It might happen to you, me, anybody. The important thing is not to lose belief in ourselves. When we feel that life is not worth living any more, we must realise that there are some true friends just a few calls away who could sort out our problems or atleast empathise with us. I would like to quote a dialogue from OSO here which I liked, “Life is like a film, it always has a happy ending. If the ending is not happy, then it is not the ending at all. There is still some part of life that is yet to be lived”.

Most of us who read this (I hope 100 %) are matured enough to know that galloping to our end leaves a very bad legacy. But what I have learnt is that it does not suffice to be brave ourselves,but it is also our responsibility to make those around us brave enough to face life’s situations and sense trouble when one is around. After all, the one who suffered most after his death was the friend who lent him money on the jewel (He also later died when he fell from a bus talking in his mobile. Quiet tragic! Thats something I want to write about later). I pray that what I have written here doesn’t prove useful for you in your life (despair, depression and suicide are three things you can do without), yet Iam writing this in any case.

This is my first blog and if it helps in preventing one suicide my purpose is served. I invite you all to give your opinions on these as well as blog about something that you want to change in this world.