If ‘Ahmedabad Mirror’ is not wrong, the city has become ‘Suicide City (of India)’, as the publication itself puts it. 66 suicides in 48 hours – that definitely is too much! But it is true, the reasons mostly being debt issues, disharmony in relationships, examination stress and love failures. This is not a problem confined to Ahmedabad alone. All these traced reasons aren’t new to humanity; the world is not unarmed against similar stress related issues either. Still, more and more people opt for the extreme step? Certainly, it could be because of their inability to face the challenges emerging from an updated social environment, in which, most children are brought up in glass cubicles. They have talents but not the right attitude. Morality is strange to them; they do not trust in unproven theories. At a similar scenario where each one competes with every other, rather than competing with ones own records, it is natural that things go beyond anybody’s control.
The New Age generation lacks mighty reasons to continue. Most people, I think, haven’t the ability to frame even a good looking simple white lie. The best of the lot belong to the group of academically well qualified. In the West there is a trend to skip ‘no failures’ scholars during interviews, under the pretext that they may not be able to survive failures or withstand challenges. It’s true. How can we make everyone shock proof? Where our kind take smart phones for parents, spouse, siblings or friends, no surprise we will lose. There we don’t experiment; there are only the choices of following the given options. Smartphones also haven’t the habit of continuously listening to other’s woes or kicking ones mind to suggest an appropriate solution in a given situation. Until we turn to WE phones instead of I phones, more cities are likely to become good suicide destinations, very soon.
Joseph Mattappally
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