Taking 'you' away

(This one's for a friend and others who've thought 'ending it all' is the easy way out...)

It takes nine months for us to breathe in life at its fullest; a year to stand on our own two feet and mumble the first words; 12 years to complete basic education; another five years to reach graduation; another two years of a masters degree; 18 years to get a driver’s license; 18 years to be of legal marriage age; our Entire Life to learn what makes us truly happy…
There is so much to do in so little time. So much to understand, so much to love, so much to achieve, so much to accomplish, so much to live…
Yet, everything – love of parents, fun times with friends, hours wasted in front of the idiot box, vivid pictures of happy times, that first love, those countless dates … (I’d run out of space if I were to mention what ‘everything’ constitutes) – but everything disappears in one flash when anger, hatred, hurt, ego and expectations take over…
All those years spent in learning to live, vanish, and what’s left is regret…
A friend threatened to commit suicide. This is one odd case among thousand other reported and unreported suicide cases. But, this was a friend of mine. The tensed moments, the sweaty palms, the stomach worry cramps, the distraught parents, the onlookers…I simply can't get it out of my mind.
‘Why suicide?’ you ask.
The answer is hidden among these - a heartbreak, great expectations in love which were never met, a feeling of dejection, a clueless state of happiness, and an ambiguous vision of love…
‘Why’ I ask. ‘Why attempt to take away life because one person…one person out of the hundreds in our lives…made us unhappy?’
Life is an opportunity bestowed on us…a gift…are we that foolish to discard it in one fleeting moment?
If you want to escape a situation, run away…go off…never come back, or return when you’re stronger, because you still have the option of starting over, but once you end it, and reach the dark corridor, you’ll be stuck in an endless walk…If suicide is your vision of peace, it’s a warped vision. Get rid of it.
While slitting your wrists, poisoning yourself or jumping off a building, might drain the blood out of your veins and your soul out of your body, but what else will it give you? Tears from loved ones? Agreed. But, for how long? Those tears would never reach anywhere near the smiles that you could’ve got had you not been so foolish, so weak…
God hasn’t given us humans an analyzing brain for us to waste in such a manner. We have the power of reasoning, and that alone is our biggest strength.
To waste life over someone or something that doesn’t value it enough in the first place will get you no sympathy, no peace…it’ll only have you wishing that you should’ve held on…
If suicide has ever crossed your mind, just treat it as a passing thought. There are people out there who love you more than anyone could ever hurt you…and that’s something each one of us should always remember. Always.
Nothing is the end of the world. There's always a tomorrow. There's always sunrise. Don't take your tomorrow away from you...