luck favors the prepared.

She cried. I saw her tears. She was yelling and crying out her daughter’s name. I did not know who she was and why she was crying. Later I found out that she was an old woman living in an apartment right in front of mine. Her daughter, 29-year-old girl, killed herself by throwing herself out of the window of 7^th floor. It was because of melancholia, people said. It was the mental sickness due to too much stress that killed her, they claimed. It was a tragic incident, but I felt sad and angry at the same time. No, it was not melancholia that killed her. She was the one who killed herself, placing her mother in deep sorrow, making all of her close ones dropping uncontrollable amount of tears, throwing away the given privilege, an opportunity to live.

To step out of a window or not—a single step forward can distance a young girl from opening her eyes in the next morning. Social oppression may drive a person to think about ending up one’s own life; but it is purely her or his choice to perform the dangerous plan into a physical action.

The universe granted all people including you and me the authority of possessing free-will. Affected by bitter reality, mortals occasionally cut off their own ropes of life using a sharp scissor called suicide. Despite all the outer influences pushing people to the fag end of their life, the granted right of free-will never stops providing unlimited opportunities that can continue their heartbeat. A final decision, determining whether to kill oneself or not, utterly depends on the person’s will.

Not being able to withstand severe pressure from the society may play an enormous role in providing reasons for a self-destruction; however it should not be forgotten that it was the person who fixed one’s mind to stop her own heartbeat. I never faced a difficulty in my life that will make me feel to kill myself; yet some of my friends told me that they had faced some. Is it really the matter of facing difficulties? Or is it the matter of “how” we take the difficulties?