Steps to help someone in need
This year have given me bad news in a rate of a kilo. First my career as a musician kind of ended, then this shit called Corona happened, people trying to put me down and criticizing me, still does ha ha, yeah, that’s a fake laugh you jerk, witnessed the loss of some of the crazy diamonds in film industry like Rishi Kapoor, Irfaan Khan, Wajid Khan and recently Shushant Singh Rajput. Saw the martyrdom of three brave Indian soldiers and what not. My mind and soul and heart could have only taken a little amount of bad news but this time it was like a shit storm.
· So, if you now ask me again, why I don’t find mental health to be joke, now you know
why? A man like me can only take a little of too much. But hey, don’t think that I am trying to ignore and show less concern, but thing is, there is enough negativity in the world right now and we need to breathe in some positive air. So let’s unlock positivity.
Yes, we have mourned the loss and death, since like the suicide of Jia Khan ‘cause of mental burden and depression, or cried during the death of Chester Bennington, but maybe we can this time help and save someone who might be ticking like a time bomb waiting to go off. It’s okay to be a part of their loneliness or depression, instead of calling them attention seekers or cry baby, something that I was labelled with once, a man with clinical or manic depression need help and some positive vibe into their lives. Make them feel good and make them happy. If possible, pull the plug, the more they are glued to social media, the more they are prone to get depressed and anxious, ‘cause social media is where people make a f***ing fun and joke out of everyone and every f***ing thing.
· Also, become a friend to that person who might have been talking to an imaginary friend in their head until now, try to know their story and to detect the problems before it’s too late than to neglect it. Because pills and injection aren’t gonna help them if that turns into addiction and in worse case they overdoses someday which you my friend won’t want to be happening. And, also if you can’t help don’t make a mockery out of it.
· Support their passion and dream, and this one goes out to dear parents. Yes, maybe your
child ain’t happy with engineering and maybe he/she wants to be an artist or a musician. So instead of playing “Sharma Ji vs Verma Ji ka beta”, support their dreams and passion. I mean you guys have watched 3 Idiots but haven’t learnt a single thing? I don’t know if I shall laugh or cry! Seriously dear parents come out of that notion that one has to be a doctor or engineer and have a nasty 9 to 5 job, just let a boy or a girl follow their dreams and goals.
· If possible grant their wishes, and this one goes out for the children or grandchildren. Often a time I see that some pretentious busy hags sends their parents or grandparents to an old age home once they becomes a “burden”? Hell, they put their entire life and effort to raise you, and that’s how you repay them? Time to change that. Time to make their wishes and dreams fulfill like they spent blood and sweat and tears to makes yours come true. If your parents has a dream to visit that one foreign place make it come true if lock-down gets over or make them feel good and happy by giving them something they had never expected but do not abandon them.
· Screw discrimination, this one goes for those that differentiates between rich and poor, big
and small. Trust you servants that have been serving you for long, never insult them with rough words, rather try to make them realize their mistakes. Gift them during festivals and celebrate their occasions like you celebrate the one of your family members and also make them a part of your celebrations.
· An age old saying says that, the greatest depression or stress killer doesn’t comes in round shape and with a rubber but with four paws and fur. So start by sheltering a furball, a doggo or a kitty will make your family a whole and will literally kill your boredom and make you stress free. Play with your little furball after a day’s job and it will fill you with a smile in your face. And, also you can gift one to a friend to help kill their loneliness.
· Speak about it in an open forum and make people to be more vocal about it. Suppression
is as bad as retaliation, and to suppress anxiety and depression could lead to disastrous consequences. So, be more vocal about it, talk about your story and how you overcame it or try to deal with it each day at an open forum, either in a stage or through vlogs. (Trent Shelton for example).
Conclusion: - Yes, we can finally beat depression if we genuinely spread positivity, fill our lives with gratitude rather than regrets, never complain, help those in needs and help ourselves, do some social works, be more vocal and open minded about it. Technically, depression is not a disease, it a phenomenon that barely has a cure and many falls prey to its grasp and embraces death, but having no cure doesn’t mean we can’t do anything about it, we can, we can rise above the negativity and can crush the tip of that arrow aimed at us by depression. With ideas and make a chain of that idea. So, in this piece I urge people to come out and join forces to help those in needs and start a wave of positivity and evade negativity, spread good vibe and have good times. Unlock positivity and bury the past inside a casket, deep to the ground six fit under!
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