Going through the local news websites daily has made me aware of a rapidly increasing phenomenon, suicide. (Murder is also becoming more widely spread but that's for another post.)
When I started thinking to myself as to why would people commit suicide here, the only logical conclusion my brain reached was: Why not?
We're poor, one can barely keep up with the bills, taxes and day to day needs making life quite rough to say the least and death sure doesn't cost much, and if it did, you would be too dead to care or for it to matter.
We're helpless, in every single aspect of our life. We're politically frustrated, we're sick of the Arab stand- if indeed such a thing exists, we don't even have a soup with the artificial flavor of a stand (quoting Ahmad Al-Zou'bi). Nepotism and cronyism are every where telling people to not even bother trying because it's useless.
We live in a restricting- to the point where you are suffocating- culture, we are constantly judged and told what to do, what to think, what to believe that eventually you lose the value of your life and mind, you lose sense of it thus it's rendered invaluable and unimportant, why bother keep the extra baggage then?
The fact that so many suicides are happening in what is considered a conservative country where suicide is heavily tabooed is quite alarming, it tells you of the extent of the damage that happened to people because of poverty and other reasons mentioned above.
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