What is exactly we all are suffering from COVID-19 or Mental Health?
Well if you ask me, I’ll choose mental health. In my opinion, we don’t die when our breaths stop, we die when we the will to live in us stops. And that’s what we all are suffering from. All of us in one or another way. Every day sitting in one room, looking at those walls, again and again, feeling like an animal trapped in a cage, we are not ok. We all want to relive those moments that were once a huge part of your lives. There is so much to say, so much to express, but still, we can’t. What made us like that? Why we are becoming so insensitive to ourselves? Why are we depending ourselves on others to understand us when we can do it ourselves? Why are we doing this to ourselves?
I’m not going to give you a lecture because I know it doesn’t work. But I know the way how to make it out.
Our generation is too much dependent on others that even for living happily, we depend on others. This is not just about you and me, it is about us, all of us. We are on a mission, a mission to hunt something, something that we don’t even know ourselves, something that is drifting us apart from us only.
I know there are problems, problems that no one can ever imagine, but that doesn’t mean we will lose ourselves. I am not saying talk with someone, tell your problems to them, because I know it’s not easy. It is very hard to speak out about your feelings. There are times when you have people to talk to but you can’t just because you can’t. And this is for people like us. Who have a lot to share but are still mum. We just want to cry out, cry out so badly that the pain goes away. We do not want a solution; we just want someone to hug us tightly that we no more feel alone.
But hey, can we just start over? Can we just stop searching happiness and solace in others when we are the ones who can help ourselves? I know it won’t be easy, it will take some time, some time to figure out things, some time to get ourselves from the lost world. But believe me, this is the only solution. No one can love you better than yourself. What if we stop our search, just stop wherever we are and start again? Whatever we are searching for in others can we just provide that to ourselves without any external help? Can we just call us as warriors and not as sufferers? I know there are hard times, times when so many bad thoughts cross our minds but can we help ourselves out? Why is it so hard to love ourselves? Why do we expect others to come and love us? We are who we are and not someone cast by someone else.
If you have watched the movie, Shakuntala Devi, you must have realized it that she fought against all the odds; she had no childhood, always believed that her parents don’t love her, the men she loved left her in the middle; but she is someone to be inspired from. Not just because she is a genius and world-famous mathematician, but because she lived for herself. Even after all the difficulties she faced, she knew how to appreciate herself and always put herself first and then others. That’s what I wanted to share, value yourself, love yourself first. No one can love you and appreciate you than yourself. You are the one whom you are looking for in others. Just look in yourself and treat yourself nicely first. Talk to yourself, appreciate yourself, and gradually fall in love with yourself. You are beautiful the way you are. You just need your love and support to be happy and successful. You just need YOU. Think about it. Hope this article helps you to see yourself in a different way, in a more beautiful manner. Hope now we won’t need a vaccine for mental health as well and can treat ourselves alone without external help. Hope you will be happy from now on. Hope you won’t let yourself down. Remember you are a warrior, not a sufferer.
– APREKSHA MATHUR
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