Feeling the guilt.

Do you ever get this guilty feeling for something that you’ve not directly committed but indirectly you are a part of why things went wrong.

I felt exactly this yesterday when one of my distant friend, who is presently preparing for 10th boards texted me telling me that one of his close friend committed suicide because of low marks and parental pressure for doing well.

When he told me this, the next thought was- another one down. The thought next to that was of guilt, I felt like a culprit. Why is this system still standing? because we are quite about it. Why are so many lives still being lost everyday? because we choose to be mum about the matter.

I never felt responsible for someone’s demise as much as yesterday. It was difficult for me to sleep at night. I know he is watching us from up there and wondering- ek do din royenge, chup ho jaenge, karna to kuch hai nahi. Because this is what we actually do.

We are selfish people who just care about our ownselves. We just care for our own people. For others we just show fake sympathy, right? But remember this can be your brother, sister, niece and someone you care for tomorrow if you don’t do anything about it.

Indian education system is claiming lives of innocent students and this needs to stop. The choice you have to make is- will you sit and wait until this system consumes your near and dear ones or will you act now.

Wake up! This is serious and needs to be dealt with right now. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again- these are not suicides, but murders. You know the culprit, you and I are the culprit because we still let this INCOMPETENT TOTALLY SENSELESS SYSTEM still stand. Will you wake up after reading this or maybe wait for another life… Your choice.

-ChoubeySahab