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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)
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