Now-a-days suicide has become so common. According to statistics, about 800,000 people commit suicide worldwide every year. Even in India people commit suicide due to various reasons. And it won’t be a surprise if we say, each one of us gets such thoughts at least once in our lifetime. But everyone might not think of committing suicide seriously. It may be just a thought that passes through our mind when we are facing problems. 

                             Who doesn’t face problems? Why take the example of someone else. I’ll consider myself as an example. I have faced a lot of problems and suffered a lot since my childhood. My life has never been easy. I am constantly battling with my problems and so is everyone else. The battle may differ from person to person, but the pain is same. 

                              Everything we do in our life is an option that we choose. Suicide is also an option. But I won’t choose that. Do you know why? Here’s the reasons: 

1. People say that those who commit suicide become ghost. And I don’t want to become a ghost. 

2. I don’t want to wear that white saree as shown in films, coz I love colours. 

3. Roaming around the world alone is no fun. It feels so lonely. 

Well the reasons are so childish and stupid right. We come across some situations in our life which seem unbearable. In those moments we cannot find a ray of sunshine. We won’t be able to find happiness. Even a single and simple smile seems like an alien thing. That is the time when we need to crack such stupid jokes and smile, coz there’s no one to make us smile. How much ever stupid the joke might be, it doesn’t matter. What matters is you. A simple smile that comes from the heart can divert us from suicidal thoughts and take us back to our happy moments. The moments that we cherish are because they are filled with happiness. After all we all live thinking of our past happiness and hope for such moments in future. 

                                  People commit suicide so that they can escape from their misery. When a person dies he may be free from suffering, but he’ll also lose the good things in life. How good does it feel when the people you love call you by your name? There won’t be anyone to call you anymore. How good does it feel to stay in the warm embrace of our loved ones? There won’t be anyone to give us a warm hug. What about your dreams and ambitions? Those can never be fulfilled. You may become the person you dream of becoming one day, but now it can’t become true because you are trying to take your life away. 

                                 For you, it’s just your life, a single life. But for the people in your life, it’s a part that goes away. A mother loses her child, a sister loses her sibling, a better half loses their soul mate and a friend loses a person who has been his/her important person next to family. Each one of them loses a person in their life. Just imagine how much pain you would feel when you see the person you love the most laying on the ground lifeless. It’s like your whole world shatters. So if you are trying to take your life away, you are inflicting the same pain on the people in your life. 

                                If you are taking away your life, you are not just taking away the pain and sufferings, but also the good and beautiful things in life. Don’t pay the price of losing all good things in life, for taking away your sufferings. Don’t put full stop to your life, put a semicolon. The semicolon represents a sentence the author could have ended, but chose not to. The author is “YOU” and the sentence is your “LIFE”. 

                                                  So stay strong. Say no to suicide.