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everyone will think like that , nothing will ever happen. The change starts
with each of us. Save water, electricity, resources. Let’s clear the pollution
in our minds and for once, lets act sensibly. The future is in our hands . Suicide -: Bravery or Cowardice?
Lets brighten our dampened future. Due to the rising temperature, sea
levels are rising, ice (a fresh water resource)is melting , people living
there have lost their homes, their lives are ruined, the polar animals are
helpless. The rising sea levels are a serious threat. It is estimated that Albert Camus , a French philosopher once said, “but in the end
around 2050, all the coastal areas, like Mumbai, Calcutta ,Chennai will be one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
submerged and later eventually the inner lands. That time, we will be Personally, I concur whole heartedly that suicide is cowardly
submerged not only water but in our own sins. The high temperatures will and weak. However the decision to commit suicide is so
be impossible to live in , the sunlight will burn our skin, and we will be the personal that it cannot be judged. It is known that suicidal
reason. We must act now. There is no other option. Let’s not foolishly people are overcome by emotion and a tunnel-like vision,
become the victim of our own wrath. Let’s stop our merciless reign on this where they believe suicide is the “only way out”. Studies reveal
selfless Earth that has always been so beautiful and loving towards us. We that at the very core of suicidal tendency is depression and
run behind our illusional desires like money, let’s run behind saving the unhappiness which makes the person feel helpless and
earth. Our lives will keep going on. We won’t get time to think about this hopeless. Such people assume that death will free them from
earth if we think there is nothing more important than our own little lives. this despair. They don’t want to die; they just want to stop the
But we must take out time as no petty problems in our lives is bigger than pain.
Global Warming. Let’s for once unite for the biggest mission that will be
powered by hope and fuelled by our will and executed in the form of Every individual at some point or the other in life has to face
actions. Let’s enlighten minds and purify our actions and the results will problems. No one is ever fully content. After all, what is life? It
sparkle one day. is a series of ups and downs. Now, a few people say that suicide
Please let’s not turn our backs on her now and disappoint her like we’ve is an act of bravery as killing yourself takes a lot of courage
been doing. Let’s remove the darkness inside and then we can create light and guts. Alas! What they don’t realize is that living with the
for her. Let’s bring back her smile, she is beautiful and let’s keep it that pain takes a lot more courage and guts. Putting a gun to your
way. Let’s save our mother earth from our own merciless wrath and lack head , pulling the trigger and ending your life is not the
of care for her, cause we won’t ever find anything like her. Thankyou so definition of bravery, it is the definition of escapism. I would
much.
(P.S.-This is not something to nod at and worry about for a few like to conclude by stating Charles Darwin’s theory of
minutes and then forget it , Please.) evolution. It is the survival of the fittest. The weak die and the
-yours friendly, strong, who are the most willing to change will survive and live
anybody on.
Archita Naik (IX) Ananya Sista (VIII)