The final thoughts…



I have always wondered what the final thoughts of a man are. What is he thinking when he knows he is going to die. Especially the thoughts of a man about to commit suicide.
Have you wondered why the fear of dying is irrelevant to him? Is it because he is afraid to live more that he is afraid to die? Is it because the pain of living is more that the pain of dying? When a normal man finds this world secure enough, then the idea of giving up this security for something that will never ever be known to mankind – death, becomes really scary. Now I feel that, it’s the hope of finding happiness in that unknown world, that drives a person who has no more hopes remaining in this world, to try out his luck there.
When is it that a man loses his hopes? When he realises that the world he lives in is fake? Meaningless? Silly? The question is will he make an effort to try to understand the world better and try to adjust himself to the needs and requirements of the world. In fact the reason for a man to lose his hope is because he is tired of trying. Having pushed his limits to such an extend that he has no longer saves up any hopes of being successful in whatever he had started out to do, he resorts to such unacceptable exit strategies. Sometimes even after achieving everything that is expected of him by this world, a person can lose hopes of living because the realization that, all that he has achieved is for nothing, or for no one can be shattering. The idea that all his hard work and effort has been for nothing is equally demoralizing as having relentlessly tried to become successful and failing each time. This feeling of having done so much for nothing can also occur when that something or someone that you have been pouring out your efforts for ceases to exist all of a sudden. The sudden disappearance of your motivation that has driven you till now can leave you completely bewildered and confused and that’s when your inner self chooses to reach out to the new world of hopes. At times even the feeling that all the forces in this world are against you climbing up the ladder of society or even clinging on to it can lead you to give up hopes. In fact when scientist confirmed that humans have reached the ultimate stage of evolution, not even in their wildest dreams have they thought about the new implications of Darwin’s theory of evolution - Survival of the Hopeful. There might be many more reasons for a person to decide to jump across the road block, but ultimately it all leads to the person losing his hopes completely.
It’s basically a new adventure that the person is about to embark upon. Just like how immigrants come to the land of hope in search of a better life, a person about to commit suicide hopes to cross the seas, to a new world where he hopes to be more accepted.
Many people think that suicide is a cowardly way out of problems. But I say that if a man loses all hope and there is nothing in this world that can get his hopes high then he is as good as a vegetable. Its hopes that drive every human on this planet into existence. Hopes of making it big, hopes of being rich, hopes of being happy, hopes of being with the person whom you love the most in life, various hopes. But when these hopes seize to exist, then the driving force behind that man’s existence also seizes to exist.
Now tell me, is that person justified in jumping off the cliff, or hanging by a rope…
cause I wouldn’t hesitate to do that IF I were him…

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  1. nikhil ..i have just one word !..beautiful !!

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  2. Nice! Agree. Also justifications apart, you own your life & only you have the right to take it if you feel.

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