Suicide is indeed a desperate way to die but we must understand it for what it is a sickness of the soul. There is something about the news of a suicide somewhere in all of us; a silent shiver of fear begins.
There is so much of mystery about the inner state of those whose hearts and minds cannot go on with the journey of life. We are made of body and soul either can snap. We can die of cancer, of a heart failure or kidney failure these are physical illnesses but we can suffer those too in the soul, the human spirit, mental wounds, from which the soul cannot recover. “Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
Do any of us ever succeed in experiencing our dreams of a fuller life? what kind of unspeakable loneliness, what inarticulate vision of fulfillment have driven different people to hang themselves ,to jump in river or wells, as we read in the papers? “Did you really want to die?” “No one commits suicide because they want to die.” “Then why do they do it?” “Because they want to stop the pain.”
In the shadow of deaths like this, may be that is what we are called to do to hold wanton death and undying life in the one embrace, if we ever find hope in our darkest times? There are times and places in our lives, mysterious moments when such spiritual conflicts is brought home, to us with almost unbearable intensity.
If God has filled us with an insatiable yearning for life in its fullness, towards what is always over the horizon of our possibilities, then is it any wonder that we are tortured by the futility of our own efforts to transcend our mortality. Turn your demons into art, your shadows into friends, your fears into fuel, your failures into teachers, your weaknesses into reasons to keep fighting. Don’t waste your pain. Recycle your heart.
A spiritual writer J.M.Nouven, writes our emotional and our spiritual lives have different dynamics, the ups and downs of our emotional lives depends a great deal on our past or present surroundings. We are happy, sad, revengeful bored, and depressed because of what happened long ago and what is happening now Ibonio the author of the book “Rise And shine” wrote kill your worries before they kill you and an important technique is to fill the mind with the comforting words of the scripture — there is enormous power in the words of the scriptures of different faiths. See your fears for what they are and stand up to them with If you know people who are suicidal, or if you know people who are bipolar, depressed, have panic attack disorder, just be there for them. They’re going through something.
That’s very, very hard they need someone to listen, someone to trust, and someone to care. Life is never going to be “easy” for anyone, but you can learn from your past, live in the present, and work to better your future. No matter who you are or how suicidal you feel, there is treasure on your inside. You are completely unique and have a gift to offer the world that is completely unique. Leaving the world prematurely by taking your own life will also be taking the gift that you were meant to share with others, and ultimately this world will not be as bright as it was meant to be.
