SUCIDE- BEHIND THE DARK COTTONS

Dr NiH reader, thank you for viewing my blog and accessing my contents. Just a few hours ago I was surfing through Instagram and I saw this poetry competition with the theme : suicide - behind the dark cottons.
  This made me think for a while.  Why would a man willingly want to take his own life?

I see everyday people facing there own struggles, trying to live, trying to survive,  trying to patch the pieces of their lives together by all means.
     And then i read about how people who've been murdered in their beds,  on their way to work, in school and those who had lost their lives to natural disasters... And I wondered, if life could be traded would they not prefer a trade than a waste? . 
  I feel the act alone is selfish.  You taking your life regardless of the feelings of those who you'd be leaving behind, to grieve your demise, to miss you. You put people who you say you love and love you too through pain as a regard of your clouded judgments.

   And then again I ask myself.... How bad could it have gotten for them?

I watched a movie one time, I saw that the girl put a bullet through her head because she was being humiliated by a video which was uploaded on the Internet by her "friends".
       "Cyber bullying" has always being one of the major reasons why.... Scratch that..... "Bullying" had always been the major reason for suicide.  People playing pranks and making "jokes",  feeding off of the weak because they know that they would get away with it. 
   A huge percentage of teenagers feel that if they can't escape this hell on earth then they chose to not live In it anymore.  They've been pushed to their limits, above their tolerance level and they refuse to see the point of living with the world.  Now I might know a tiny bit of the big story but I am also trying to understand them.

   Not only youngsters are being bullied, I believe adults too.

A man,  married to a beautiful loving wife, and has beautiful kids and a happy home was found with ropes around his neck and his feet about three feet above the ground and people were forced to ask.... "what went wrong?".  He had a "perfect" life. Why did he end it?

   This man was bullied by frustration, depression and incompetence .  He could no longer do that which he had to do to sustain his family and the shame of this reality prompted this man to take his own life. 

We all have 1 to infinite reasons to want to end our problems by stopping our hearts but do we ever think of what would happen when we are gone?

Does the trouble go away?
Alas am I happy with myself?
Do I want to end my story with... " And so she took her own life"
What about the people that love me? Should I hurt them because I was hurt?
Should l let  my problems define me.

There are so many questions to ask yourself before you make that final decision.
Everyone has a choice to live but not all make that choice when it comes to death.

Do not let yourself be defined by what life presents to you....
"Situations" is a bully YOU SHOULD STANDARD UP To...
Life is a gift, and only you can decide on how to use that gift

"you are a symbol of what you choose to be and stand for, not how it is described by others "
                                                                            
                                                                                               _  Nina Hart