Life is Simple.

My Reaction on Deaths in this New Year in IIT Kanpur

Subash Chandra Malik

I am starting with a famous quote of Einstein. It says “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift”. I am not fond of writing articles. I like rhymes rather. Nor do I am Interested to write the death of others and get happy that I have written something. I really care about young India and want that this message should reach to the society. Even though we are developing day by day, with science and life forms we actually have forgotten to make a happier world. Or do we have clumsiness in our environment to feel enough the things that may really hurt others. As a student, we fail to understand even at some point of time, we are someone’s son or daughter. The parent’s depend on us, may be not now. The young world seems to be short- sighted and ecstatic about everything. I am not blaming the students. Nor the developers, so called parents. It is our own fault to find fault within ourselves. What we do is for us only. Then why to sacrifice the life we have got, for nothing? Simply. There is no answer to it. Many of us might think, there is a situation to which the person could not withstand and did that thing called suicide. But, you know one thing, we are being taught how to overcome through those and related hurdles of life.

“A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new”.

This new year 2014, had seen 2 deaths from IIT Kanpur. Yes may be in history it is not new for these deaths. But think about their parents and dear ones. What in the world, they did a mistake to get this news and departed from their loved ones. We cannot feel that. The felt are the feelings which are applied for the experienced ones. Leave it. I am astonished to recall the reasons. What could be the reasons? It is left to you to choose anyone from the followings as which one could be common reason for suicide in case of a student.

1.      Got really poor marks and study is not fruitful.

2.      Got a family problem and is not easier to handle.

3.      Had a girlfriend/boyfriend who is not there to console you anymore.

4.      Found something harder abut you from your loved ones.

5.      Financial problem and got really hooked.

6.      Tasted a bitter life from variety of friend circles.

7.       Have a bunch of crooked and bad guys resulted as enemy.

8.      Got troubles in local areas.

Ok, I got them listed as per these seem to be often involved one or more reasons per death. But I cannot conclude for the 2 above deaths occurred as I also don’t know the exact reasons. Before hastily going to life, just wait a minute and think what our parents and friends done for us. Why to waste our lives on such silly things like marks, grades, friends, girls, money, status, job etc. Ya! They even matter at some places. But people are also counted who have not these things even. The population of India is 120 crores at least if I am not wrong. Do they all have got these things? Primary and fundamental principle of life is to live happily. The main aim of life is to live a good, inspiring and motivated life even in your last moments.

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value”.

The expectations and hopes which we set if are not fulfilled, we get shattered and a shear force attacks us from within. The force is so greater that it cannot be resisted by others or even God. Only we ourselves can resist that force and convert it into success in a different way within ourselves. The parents, friends and relatives and dear ones have done nothing to make you sad or feel uncomfortable. We have no right to shatter their faith, belief and words on us. The mother is the most affected from this. What on the earth, she did a mistake to give birth to a child who would waste the life for nothing.

There are miles and miles of space to travel and lots of friends to make and thousands of days to live on this earth. Each day you get in your hand, you get 86400 seconds, 1440 minutes and 24 hours to spend and to do new things in your own way. Many a times, these may not be fruitful. But trying to get good things done is human tendency and we should not turn away from that. Hope makes us believe. Belief makes us to do. The do makes us achieve. The final result is better. These are to be done out of happiness and pleasure. No need to worry about the society and its parameters to make you a thing on weighing balance. As if you are a vegetable and are counted in kgs and after that being tagged with price. Hence we make decisions and we make ourselves.

Love the Way you live and make others happy. Never leave the battlefield, stand there alone till you last breath. Who knows you win. There should be always taste of different life forms and life’s odds and evens. Then only we are made stronger and stronger. Moral strength is much more powerful than physical strength. We are lacking that day by day. We cannot deny that even. Our environment, education system and the society sometimes forces to deny that we are morally and internally strong. There is a need to develop classes on morality and education on happiness and smile. Because most of us have forgotten to smile.

I am ending this with “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. Make a better world.