Teenage Suicide

Today, When I was having a cup tea on a fine evening, a breaking news on the television attracted my attention towards it. It said that a teenage committed suicide for some reason. This got me thinking that this “THING” is  getting way too popular among the young generation.

Suicides among young people continue to be a serious problem. Each year, thousands of teenagers commit suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-to-24-year-old, and the sixth leading cause of death for 5-to-14-year-old.

Teenagers experience strong feelings of stress, confusion, self-doubt, pressure to succeed, financial uncertainty, and other fears while growing up.

Stress is a major reason of teenage suicides. The  youth, now-a-days think that they have got all the  problems in the universe. They think that they are the only ones with whom God is unfair. They take stress of every bad thing that happens to them. And this “stress” is the main reason of teenage suicides.

Another reason of teenage suicide which requires some discussion is that their mentality also goes through the changing state so they think that everyone in the world is their enemy, even their parents. They start becoming rebellions. And a rebel mind can do anything with anyone, especially with his own self. Suicide is often linked with drugs and alcohol use that kills them slowly inside and let them be close and dizzy to the world.

For some teenagers, divorce, the formation of a new family with step-parents and step-siblings, or moving to a new community can be very unsettling and can intensify self-doubts.

Step parents and step siblings are also one the main reasons of teenage suicides. Some teenagers are not granted with good step parents/siblings. In fact, they suffer a lot a lot due to their step family which results in committing suicide.

For some teens, suicide may appear to be a solution to their problems and stress. They think that killing themselves will give them relieve from all the other problems as they do not see any other way to go. So they choose the only solution that is left which is Suicide. But none of us don't think that its the better solution to all your problems. Hiding from the world is not what any human should do,but facing it does. Suicide the most preventable cause of death, but prevention requires all of us to speak up. Teenagers who go for the suicide are the ones who can't seek help for themselves. There friends and family members should be able to read their minds and check on them if they are making some death notes or showing inappropriate behavior. No child should be abused or discouraged by any of there parents. Its the main reason why teenager keen to end there life up. A strong family support makes you what a good society wants. They should concentrate on boosting their self-esteem. Teenagers should have a regular psychological check-up. Media should also not expose such kind of violence to avoid any inconvenience and avoid any kind of self abuse in teenagers so that we have healthy and confident minded youth and have well developed country.

Life (apart from religion)

We might find it complicated to get the exact meaning of of life. It might be a general question that we all seek to know at some stage of our life from ourselves. But when we are concerned with its significance and purposes such as “Why are we here?”, “What life is all about?”,“What is the purpose of its existence?”, Then it has been the subject of much philosophical , scientific and theological speculation throughout history. There have been a large number of proposed answers from every individual. Religions and science may get to these answers but thinking out of of the box and without depending on any other’s myth we all get to question ourselves personally once that what exactly our purpose is?

                  If we go deeper in our thoughts with life, apart from religion than this topic gets more fascinating, absorbing and it makes me wonder that like, (really!) what is its purpose? Why am I sitting here and writing about life from which I am going through, already. Well! That’s interestingly needed to find who we are and what our purpose is. Because, without knowing this we cannot explore our ambitions and make our imaginations vast and beyond the beauty and nature of this life to survive. 

                if I flash back to the past and try to figure out the word ‘life’ I will see that intense struggle has been made by humans. From the very beginning of human existence, we see that every individual has strived for survival and for his life to live as long as possible. Because death is that bitter truth from which we all naturally fears. We can see that we wait for a new born to come in his life, he lives his life, struggles and struggles everyday hard to make his life better and satisfactory. In every decades of his life he struggles for himself and his benefits. That struggle is going to make him comfortable and to prevent him from starvation to death and in the end he dies after giving up off his past work and struggles. Basically, the typical individual in an industrialized society follows this routine: birth, school, work, die. They may advance their field, but it doesn't really matter in the long run.

So, concerning with the nature of human beings, does only struggle matter to us? Does only advancement and comfort matter to us? These questions will be different for every individual because every individual thinks has different thoughts in the way or other. Life is about facing challenges, taking chances, fighting your fears, having control on your emotions in every aspect of life and let the life go on because we all know that life stops for none. While living this life we often think that everything that has ever breathed had to leave and have to leave once. Life is about aims and making those aims something more than success which is our dream. If talking about a materialistic person and questioning him about life, his answers will be no more than his aims, dreams and fulfilling them at the nearest stage of his life. He might say that life is nothing without these purposes and working hard to achieve them. But when we ask the same question from the person who believes in religion and oneness of God. He would know everything, why we are here and what our purpose is. Because a complete religion gives answer to you every question. God made you for a purpose and for worship. Religions give every detail of human life such as how we formed and how we are different in each aspect. Our thoughts,  fears, opinions, perceptions and even way of seeing is different from the other person with the same eyes. Questioning our life with religion no doubt is usual and is our foremost right but thinking beyond all this usual way of seeking knowledge might not take our imagination to that possibility where the real success and satisfaction is hidden.

                      

                             

                I have read on more than one occasion an atheist making the argument that goes something like this: if humans are the most important creation, why this universe is so vast? The argument is that is this the waste of space? Another way I’ve seen this argument is as follows: the universe is full of galaxies that are even beyond our capacity to ever observe? Furthermore, why is so much of the universe hostile to human life? Humans can’t live in overwhelming majority of the universe. Why is it so hostile if it were created for us? Life means a continual battle. These question might mingle up ones mind. Things are complicated as far as you are seeing them complicated. Life is most of experiences and feelings. Beliefs make our concepts real. If we do not have a belief in religion, feelings, surroundings, purposes of life than we won’t be able to understand anything and that will be great rush to live this life. Life might not be the bed of roses but if we believe in our comforts then it can resemble that bed of comfort. The more you question life the more it will make you wonder or might make your thoughts blurry and loom. Life is about growing, changing and continually trying to find who one is in our lives. Life is mysterious, intriguing and at times totally meaningless. These contradictory qualities of life make it unsetting and ambiguous. Nevertheless, change and progress speed forward. Life goes on and it waits for none.

For us, very often, we think importance is equal to power. When someone has power, they are more important than someone without power. But such notions of power and hierarchy are extra biblical ideas which we have read onto the text.

            The life we experience as human beings is very different from the life experienced by other creatures. We are organized and run for advancement. Another privilege among all creatures we are the greatest. We need to understand one word-freedom-freedom from all bondages. We are free to think and always think beyond our own imaginations!

Resembles  life  what  once  was  held  of  light,

Too  ample  in  itself  for  human  sight,

An  absolute self, an  element  ungrounded,

All  that  we see, all colors of all shade,

By encroach  of  darkness made?

Is  very  life  by consciousness  unbounded?

And all the thoughts,  pains,  joys of moral  breath,

A war-embrace of  wrestling  life and  death.

Picasso Pablo Part one

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973). Pablo Picasso, one of the most recognized figures of the 20th century art who co-created such styles as Cubism and Surrealism, was also among most innovative, influential, and prolific artists of all time. He was a Spanish  painter, sculptor,print maker, ceramicist, and stage designer  

Source: Wikipedia

It is said that he brought a huge revolution in great art work through his paintings , sculptures and drawings.Moreover , his innovation conquered all painters that no painter has such big audience like he does. 

     

               His success in his early work through Blue period (1901-1904) and Rose period (1904-1906) led him to establish another success that was Cubism (1907-1911). It was pioneered by George Barque and Pablo Picasso. By 1911 Picasso was recognized as the inventor of Cubism, while Braque’s importance and precedence was argued later,

Cubism:  In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context. ( Wikipedia/ Cubism)

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907, considered to be a major step towards the founding of the Cubist movement.

His aim was to develop a new way of seeing that lead to new idea and innovations. 

Picasso's Blue Period: He painted them in shades of blue and blue-green , only occasionally warmed by other colors. Its was some of his most popular work although he found difficulty in selling them at first. 

Picasso was influenced by a journey through Spain and by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas. 

 Although Picasso himself later recalled, "I started painting in blue when I learned of Casagemas's death",

Source : Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso's_Blue_Period

 

Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist (1903)

 

 Two sisters ( The Meeting)

            We believe that every color associates with the nature of emotions like red color associates with warm emotion. Likely to nature blue associates with melancholy , depression and depth of some emotion. In all of Picasso's Blue Periods paintings, he has showed grieve and depth of his emotions so beautifully. His paintings shows that every emotion can be shown in any kind of art work whether its a painting on canvas or a simple art work. The people he painted have an element of pathos and melodrama.

 Self Portrait (shows him wearing a dark black coat)

Rose Period: The Rose Period comes from the time when the style of Pablo Picasso's painting used cheerful orange and pink colors in contrast to the cool, somber tones of the previous Blue Period. 

                                               Pablo Picasso was a creature of the 19th century. Although he spent most of his life in the 20th century, his work and thinking would remain a product of 19th century romanticism. Romanticism refers to a cultural movement that started at the end of the 18th century, a century that was dominated by the Enlightenment. Enlightenment resulted from scientific advances and favored a climate of reason and rationalization.

Pablo Picasso began to develop a highly romantic style of painting in 1899, which ended in 1901, after his close friendCarlos Casagemas had committed suicide. The ensuing Blue Period would be characterized by resignation and mourning and consists of downbeat portraits of the underprivileged of society, paintings in which the color blue dominates.Then, in 1904, Picasso's work regains its romantic quality in a series of paintings in warmer colors, many of them in the color pink.
Source:http://pablo-picasso.paintings.name/rose-period/


This painting called La Famille de 
This painting shows much cheering and happy colors than his early paintings from blue period. The colors used in it are warmer and the title of this painting itself shows that its a happy people in an aspect or other, 

Pablo Picasso Self Portrait 1907

This self portrait is totally different from the self portrait he painted in his Blue Period. The colors are much warmer in it gives a feeling of cheer and comfort. 

Ways of Seeing
John Berger

In his book Ways of Seeing, John Berger brings up several interesting points regarding the cognition of art. According to him, we no longer comprehend visual images as merely what we see in front of us. Rather, our view of the images is concealed by that which we already know – the image’s reputation and value, the artist’s other works, the context of the art, and the many reproductions created of the image. This, Berger argues, falsifies the concept of art; it is practically impossible for adults to restore the “innocence” with which a child looks at a visual image.

Berger’s theories can be applied to any type of visual images, including modern art. When visiting the Museum of Modern Art, one should keep in mind that a piece of art is meant to be looked at and explored with no conceptualized views. Even if a painting is extremely famous, seeing it “live” is equivalent to seeing it for the first time. The experience of being a museum-goer isn’t about the value of the art one is looking it nor is it about the meaning the painting is “supposed” to have. One should walk into any museum with an extremely open mind and a willingness to feel.

It is not only important to have an open mind, but also to be confident one’s own perception when experiencing art. This way, the experience and the discussions become more enjoyable, honest, and meaningful.

I'm deeply thankful to John Berger for pointing my attention to:

·         A different meaning that word and our own emotions bring to the art piece.

·         Status and power that content of classical European oil paintings ensured to the owner;

·         Gender issues and portrayal of the female body (I love how Berger draws a clear line between terms 'nude' and 'naked');

·         “An analysis of glamour as an invention of industrial society in modern times during which 'The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right. Yet the existing social conditions make the individual feel powerless” (p.148). And I'm pretty sure; no one ever forgot to show this book to people in advertising business.

In a world full of reproductions, the currency of art (as much as the currency of the human body) is so much a part of our culture that we barely notice it – except, perhaps, when a Damien Hurst is bought for millions of pounds during the beginnings of a credit crunch. Berger is a political reminder of what that exchange means. Put it on the school curriculum! Every adolescent should read it.

Good girl Vs. Bad girl

Bad girl:  A bad girl is the girl that is not afraid of anything. What is going on in their family or personal life, they never give a thought about it. They like to enjoy life to the fullest with every single trick that make them excited and most wanting. They mostly like to back bite with their girl friends about their other girl friends. They do not care about their image much with whom and where they are sitting, what kind of clothes they are wearing because being comfortable feels everything to them. Other's harsh point of views do not bother them but anyhow they want to get into a fight to present them as a huge drama queen. They like to brag about themselves and also do not care about other's girls feelings. They love to smoke.drink alcohol and party up all night with nasty and untrustworthy boys. Being in a failure matters nothing to them. I feel like they are like always in a rush and do not prefer to b calm and understanding. They are the biggest enemies of themselves because of their bad attitude no one likes to be around them so they put themselves in an alone path without any dear one's suggestion they always find it hard to make a single decision for them.

Good girl: A good girl is the girl who does not like to do those things that a bad girl does. A good girl care about her family and stay nice and welcoming to everyone.She is sincere to every kind of person around. She cares about her career and wants herself to feel confident and beautiful all the time.She is not out spoken and does not brag about any of her physical appearance. Good girls like to co-operate in order to stay away from worse conditions. Good has a good hold back on her nerves and desires 

Aspects of Experience

When we talk about experience it is all about learning, memories, confusions and just a flashback sometimes. Everyday is an experience it depends on us like how we take it. We can take it as a rough, tough day, some would like to make their every moment worth living and some will observe and find something new in every moment. And when it comes to learn from someone else's experience then yes we can learn from other's experience. It teaches us a lot and it is worth listening to someones good or tragic experience. It alarms and tells us that the mistakes like they do, we do not need to repeat them. For example: When we were in our childhood we all were used to listen to stories and fairy-tales. Even if any of them were not real, we all still got scared of those nightmares in that stories or we still applied those charming sights of fairy tales in our real. That was our childhood learning from experiencing different tales.  Apart from childhood if someone is at a big loss in his business or his in personal life and we are able to observe his life we definitely would not learn from his mistakes and experience that why and how is getting through a tough time and we would not like to be willing to repeat mistake like him and experience such a big loss like him. Other's experiences matter if we want to learn from them. It depends on us how we see and take things when we hear or see them.

                         And now the  question raises: Does learning through others experience defy the word "Experience" ? 

It might challenge experience in some aspects, depends upon what kind of experience we are having. Because experience is something practical. Like if someone is doing driving wrong and get injuries from his road accident experience and I was a spectator of his mistake then I obviously do not like to do such a thing like he did and what he made me learn and this does not defy the meaning of the word experience. But depending on someone else's experience much is not the easiest way to live a life because somethings can only be learnt when we give our all to it. And when it comes to relation between mind, body and heart experience, it does relate then because mind is the chamber of thoughts. It senses life events and tell us what is good and bad about them. When we know properties of something we tend to feel them and there comes the chamber of feelings that is our hearts. Our mind and soul learn from experience and they both let the heart to experience how does that feels.

Life Experiences

Learning through other's experiences

Experience is something we learn through a new practical, event or even someone else's life event or past. Experiencing anything in life is exposure to that thing first and then learn through it, if you people think it necassary. Experience is also learning through actions and speech. If you have learnt much from a specific experience which might be a hobby,you can be called as an expert then.
There are different types of experiences: 

• 1 Physical experience
• 2 Mental experience
• 3 Emotional experience
• 4 Spiritual experience
• 5 Religious experience
• 6 Social experience
• 7 Virtual experience and simulation gaming
• 8 Immediacy of experience
• 9 Subjective experience
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A human body basically have four sight in which it can experience something. The first is body. Like going out on a trip or riding a horse. Second is your mind. Like solving a puzzle or working on something with great concentration. Third is your heart. Like falling in or out of love. And last but not the least is our soul. Soul is intimited with meditation or spiritual learning through praying a God. 

I chose this topic because I was interested in experiences of a persons life wether he/she is popular or not.Because, learning through others experience is like doing a great favor to yourself. It teaches you half of your life lessons before it actually might happen with you in future.

“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”― Otto von Bismarck

 It is like an original and early source of knowledge. Every second of life is important to learn something new from our social enviroment. For example: If someone is at its crisis and loosing value of his life,we can learn through his experience like what mistake brought to this awful day and what he has been doing through all of his life that he is not able to support himself today. It is totally worth it if we start working on our observations and make them strong enough to write a philosophy book in our mind for ourselves. Although his kind of experience is not as pure as the one you will experience yourself, it is quite useful where you might not be able to learn it through your own limited opportunities.

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. 

I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.” 
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient