What's on the other cide | I was on a lecture about suicide realizing I know too many people around me that suffer a loss of a dear one for suicide. Every 40 seconds someone in the world commits suicide, every 40 seconds another family is devastated, friends losing dear ones, life ends.
We imagine grown ups, young men, though lately I was told about a ten years old whom took his life.
What goes in the minds of all these people we keep losing as I write this blog, no one will ever know. There is no quick questionnaire being filled up on the other cide that asks about
the experience just before. If it was a quick button to press it would have the sad face icon on it, that's all we could imagine, but why people get so low and desperate. More desperate than the people surrounding them. A family the struggles - is not a one person struggle, it is that one person whom cannot take it any longer that felt alone in the situation, alone and lonely with no hope for a helping hand, with no fade light that will suggest that there is another way.
We do not realize how deep our soul could be and how dark it could get when it feels empty. There is so much emptiness in the miserable souls that it just sucks - in every living energy and one is left with the void, zero, drained, there is nothing much to lose, so now it's just about the how it could end as painless as possible and its a matter of time to plot a plan, crossing to the other cide.
There's a song by Logic the rapper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ju6Q8Azcmg
where families that lost their dear ones are up on the stage - where you could just see that no family is immune to suicidal thoughts and actions. The undoing project book talks about what if we could have taken one element from the equation that would have changed the faith of devastation. We cannot live our life with fear that we could lose someone dear any moment, but we should always be mindful it could happen, where we want to be aware of the struggles that people near us go through and offer our help. Help could be just listening, hearing out and let people speak their poisonous thoughts out, they do not seek for solutions they need to realize that there is hope, that there is life to live beyond this crappy moment they live through. The fact we cannot live to other people's expectations does not make us less worthy humans. Modern life exposes us to so many temptations where we cannot find a proper compass to navigate through them. But we need to know that the best things in life begin within us, from the little joy of waking up to a sun filled room, laughing from a good joke or helping someone else. If we recall the little things they would serve as the compass to guide us to the greater things - but only the ones that important to us. We do not know what's on the other cide, but they are not getting our hugs and do not laugh from our jokes, what sun is there anyway on the other cide of dark?
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