Change is a constant
variable. And I wonder why our society is not changing. Last write up that I
wrote I very proudly proclaimed that it is not the age that is important but the
right match. I now think I was wrong… Rather I am proven wrong. In India our
whole life is centered towards marriage, we have to study hard to get a good match;
we have to earn good to be a suitable match…everything we do should be socially
acceptable to live a life, or in other words to find a match. I always thought
that education helps in reformation…but seems in India even education is a
hopeless tool because more than education it is the society that plays an
important role in our decision making. It is not the educated mind that takes
the decision but the mind that is molded by society. It seems that we have been
blinded by the pointless counters of society. Reasons and logic do not seem
to work with society! We let the people around us control our lives to an
extent that we no longer respect our lives. It’s true that a man is the product of
the society he lives in; and a lame society gives birth to a lame man and a lame
mind. India is the best example of a worthless
society, where a 29 year old girl is forced to commit suicide just because she
did not get a suitable match.
I was taken aback
when I read this news. A well educated
girl of a very well educated family (mother-principal, father-doctor) hanged
herself to death just because she did not get a right match. Honestly, at first
I thought she was stupid to have done this, I actually cursed her for
committing a crime like this…not taking life seriously…but to think of it on a
deeper level it is not suicide but murder. We murdered her. We who make this
society are murders. It was a cold blooded murder. I feel guilty because I am
as much a part of society as anyone else.
When I was writing
the last write up, it was on a very light note that I mentioned about it…I
never thought that someone can be a victim on that level. This makes me think
and question the progress that we claim to make. We are not progressing, we are
regressing because I am sure incidents like this did not happen in ancient
India, where a girl had to kill herself just because she is 29 and not married.
I know I am talking of an altogether
different India but if this is the state of present India then it is better we
do not progress. It is the societal eclipse that we are encountering, oblivion
that it will engulf all of us. We are nurturing darkness in the garb of our futile and
fatal societal norms.
Suicide is anyway
illogical but I have never heard of a more illogical reason than this one.
May her soul
rest in peace!
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