Suicide, suicide, suicide, that's all I can seein the newspapers.

Suicide , Suicide, Suicide... that's all I can see in the papers. Everyday I open the papers I read about suicides happening all over the country. People are ending their lives seemingly for the flimsiest of reasons. '9 year old refuses to study, Mother sets self on fire' , '16 year old Bhavi Desai was caught with a chit before the start of her exams, she consequently jumped to her death from the terrace of her building', there have been many more such cases over the past few weeks. The above mentioned two are representative of the broader malady that is afflicting our society today. We have lost the balance in our lives, life itself has become less important as people begin to lose themselves in the pursuit of their aspirational goals. Parents want their children to do better than themselves, better than their friends and colleagues children so that they themselves do not lose face and better than their relatives children so that their super-eminent status remains unchallenged. They do not allow their children to learn and develop their own coping skills because they are too preoccupied with achieving their own goals and have little time or patience to devote to their child's holistic development. it's such a shame that society has also begun to empathise with such behavior and as a result more and more children end up shattering their self-esteem and are unable to rebuild on it, choosing to end their lives rather than face up to rejection and criticism! Remember Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem!

Johnson