I read somewhere many years ago, "the only truly philosophical question is suicide!" At that time I did appreciate the line. "Why should a man continue living", is a truely amazing question and occurs to most of us some time or the other in our lives. Mostly we avoid or ignore or postpone the question. I did the same. We mostly do so, I think, because we are scared that in case we find the answer to be in affirmative, then we may commit suicide. And that will stop us from enjoying our lives. Life, though confusing, has its own charm. So people discover all types of nonsense rules to stop us from thinking of suicide, e.g. "suicide is sin"!!
Few days back I read "What is Maya", an essay by Swami Vivekananda. So lucidely he has explained about "maya" and how life is interesting. My last blog reflects some of the after thoughts of that essay. As concluded there, life is interesting. But this aint any cause to continue living this life! Do you try all things that seem interesting; like trying weed?
So huge is the world. And so insiginficantly minial is our existence. Its like the life of some bacteria. You remember those scenes in some shows where they zoom-out the camera... till they show the globe! Many times I do the same in my thought process and try to go till the level of galaxy. Who really cares what you do to your friend or how to cheated your brother? Neither it matters how you helped the old blind man. Its all insignificantly insignificant.
One of my friends told, after much of discussion, "man lives for himself". OK, very well. This is like some circle then, "you live because you are alive". Let me cut the circle! If you are dead you are saved the effort to live!
PS: Well, dont think that I am gatehring suicidal tendency! Its all genuine enquiry!!
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we shd live if "we want to finish strong"
commiting suicide is not bad.If u feel dat u r living in negative darkness den just commit suicide.You can find many MAHAPURUSHA, hu committed suicide, becoz dey found nothing in lyf, nd dey never looked inwards, becoz dey found dere was no meaning,no sense of continuing living.Sometyms, lyf becoms meaningless, of no significance.Its only through cowardice dat people continue to ,live.dey dont hav enough guts to commit suicide.dere is no need to be afraid, smtyms only suicide can prove dat u r nt coward..nd also wat is d point of living, upto now, wat did u do..u will live rest of d lyf in d vry same way nd lastly die lyk a helpless animal..atleast hav d dignity to commit suicide.If birth is nt in our hand, den atleast we may be master of our death..we hav only two options, either die lyk an animal or commit suicide lyk a brave man...
Committing suicide is like running away, be it from the bad things or from the good things because you do not find meaning in them. Life is something which is given to us. We have got it without having asked for it. It is free!!! Why would you want to throw away something so divine and so beautiful as life which you have got. You have been privileged to have got the chance to live. Life is not what you make of it. Life you have is as was given to you. Life does not become a bore. It does not become meaningless. It just appears so because the person living it has perhaps lost the ability to understand it, live it, enjoy it.A gift, should never be thrown away, in my opinion as a courtesy. But just because we have the ability to choose to end it, should we throw away the gift of life given to us. Think of it like this, if someone could not do any better while being alive, what good can he/she do by being dead.
committing suicide is a losers talk. committing suicide doesn't show the guts rather it shows lack of guts which makes one run away frm lyf(a beautiful gift by GOD). We can't remember the future(sounds weird but true) but past. So the thing of which v rn't known, how can we decide about it and its importance. Past never decides the future rather the present decides the future. so if one is thinking that mere on the basis of his/her past his future will be affected then this shows the malfunctioning of the brain. and hence the decision of suicide is due to his thinking and not bcoz the life is bore. One cannot comment on the nature of lyf bcoz lyf is eternal and has got dimensions which cannot be measured.Those who dun understand the meaning of lyf and each n every thing associated to it it seems boring to them. If i consider lyf as mathematics then then my above statement bcums very clear . suicide proves the cowardice. Those who support the act of committing suicide knowingly or unknowingly are questioning the existence of God(sry if i m getting rude. hurting sentiments is not the motive).So If the question is about the way to live d lyf then it can b considered as the philosophical question and every answer may have a logic. But it can b said without ny doubt that suicide is totally illogical nd we should not provide it the dignity of a philosophical question.
life is an experiment,our surroundings is the laboratory. lab class continues till u want to continue. no matter when u stop it if u've got your inference right. if not, well, u can attend another class(life). then next one n so on.........on the other hand, if one says drawing inference is not important, then experiment is needless. then why should we have a lab in the first place?
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