Youth Talk

‘What a waste of a precious life … what a pity she took away her own life’, was a comment that glared at me when I scrolled through my Facebook wall just a couple of days ago.

Yet another life had been claimed by the hovering pressure on the young.

Yet again, society rose in criticism of her action without considering, even for a second, if we were also somehow linked to it.

Life has become difficult, pressure has increased and we are working harder than ever, but, in our pursuit of perfection, we are trying so hard to be better than other people that we have often forgotten to march together.

It is ‘caveman logic’, we work, we earn and we use that to eat and clothe ourselves. Since we are not cavemen, we have slightly more advanced needs but the basic idea of working to sustain a living has remained the same.

 But have we become so deeply absorbed in that first part that some forget to live?

Moreover, ‘society’ and its perception of culture and decency is so ill drafted, that we hesitate to debate and discuss the problems teenagers face and carelessly take the liberty to tone down the magnitude of their problems.

It is a dangerous space to be when you prefer no life over a slightly worse one. And sadly, ‘we’ are not helping.