Live, Laugh, and Love

            People’s outlook on life has a lot to do with their potential for success. Some researchers have found a direct link between hope and success. They have found that optimists - people who always see the bright side of things – are more likely to succeed in life than pessimists. Hope doesn’t just involve having a belief in good results. It involves both: will and the means to reach one’s goal. People with hope have many traits in common: they turn to friends for advice; they regard setbacks as challenges and not as failures, they know how to break a big goal into smaller chunks and work on one aspect at a time. Pessimists are totally different. They just see the empty half of the cup. They’re always who they are. They’d never think of ameliorating society where they can prove themselves. Being a pessimist is a vital factor for committing suicide that became a wide spread phenomenon that has to be fixed. Reasons provoking committing suicide may vary from an environment to another and some solutions must be applied.

            People who are pretty far from real perspectives of their societies and feel aloof from whatever is related to a merry life, who are always isolating themselves from others, depriving themselves from benevolent stuff or even not interacting with their surrounding may turn into alcoholic or drug addicts to alleviate the pain of their sorrowful lives. People who think of committing suicide may be banned from their rights or suffer from destitution or emotional hurt. They might have being tortured in their infancy or give harsh conditions. They may have missed faith or disbelieved in tomorrow. Those individuals perhaps had been neglected throughout the stages of their personal experiences. But committing suicide doesn’t involve a particular age; it’s a way of thinking. It’s all about lacking hope & esteem that afflict people and lead them to punish themselves as a consequence of disgrace or surrender. Maybe the one committing suicide has felt as if society is punishing him, then he’d think of it.

            But those people need our help. Perhaps, we’re the ones making them feel that. We can assist by teaching them how to believe and think, how to see the black and the white, the full and the empty, the right and the wrong, the malicious and the awesome, how to feel gaiety and grief, how to follow and how to lead, how to improve and how to be motivated, and most significantly how to live, laugh and love. Yes, we can be the vibrant motivator to preclude this idea. We can do it if we had the determination to.

            Committing suicide is not a solution for problems they’d face; in contrast, it is a cause for them. It’s better to fix it even before it happens. Let’s give them the facilities to enjoy it to the maximum.

            If everyone was given his opportunity to express himself, then everyone would spread his arms wide open and we’d get, as a result, a helpful society whose individuals yearn for perfection and endless love. We can be slow walkers but we mustn’t go back.

Rana Ali Dawood

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