David Idowu
I find it difficult to comprehend why people often criticize others whenever they are not doing well or blame people for bowing down to suicidal pressures, whereas with our own hands, we've insanely created a discriminative society with different classes base on success and failure.
Hypocritically, we often embrace success as the only true dividend of hard work, while we tend to lash our tongues against those that are not doing well without considering what could have led to their shortcomings, shamefully we usually don't hesitate to share the sentiment that they are the architect of their problems.
It saddens me that despite being the administrator of this monstrous pressurizing system, we still blame people for being submissive to the floods of this pressure. Whenever they are not doing well, we believe the best way to pull them up is to tell them how bad they've been doing or how well their colleagues/friends/peers are succeeding in that area they've been slacking to motivate them.
Amazingly, due to the dubious nature of humans, we've intentionally shunned the reality that all fingers ain't equal and that we all have different ways of expressing pains, diverse ways of coping with pressure, and a unified level of determination.
No doubts, we are different and our endurance level differs as well, it's on this note that i disagree with all hypocrites who often showcase their motivational prowess by criticizing those who resort to taking their lives as a way of ending their problems.
Sanely, suicide isn't an option but no member of this present society is worthy to criticize anyone who takes his/her own life because either consciously or unconsciously, we've contributed to their failure by shamefully embracing success as the only melody we want to dance to. I'm not saying we should start seeing failure as an option too, but notwithstanding, we must put an end to the discrimination between success and failure.
We must stop seeing condemnation as the only thing "failed" or "failing" people deserve, if we must curb the rate of suicide in our society today, we should preach it by our actions and not by the regular flexing of words we do on social media.
Reach out to that friend today, share ideas with him/her, encourage them in every possible way, meanwhile don't force them to talk whenever you notice that they are being secretive, instead show them more love and earn their trust with your goods deeds and then wait if they won't open up.
"Death no be option, but na condition make crayfish bend."
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