When the Warmth of Love Is Found

Do you know that every 40 seconds, someone in this world takes their own life? That adds up to nearly 800,000 people each year!

Every year, almost eight hundred thousand people—after careful thought, in sound mind, through elaborate planning over long periods—one day suddenly decide to kill themselves! Can you imagine?

When a capable man who can single-handedly manage a household of ten begins to feel that his own weight is twice what he can bear, he grows weary.
Humans are like ants—they can carry burdens ten times heavier than themselves, yet somehow cannot bear the weight of their own existence.

Do you know who's responsible for each person who commits suicide? We are. Yes, we ourselves!

When you see someone limping and call out, "You're lame, you can't run!" the ache of not being able to run settles deep within them.
When someone has poor eyesight and you mock them, laughing as you call them "blind," they begin to see themselves as incomplete.
When you crush someone's profound faith like sand between your fingers, they start to feel utterly alone.

Humans and nature share this one trait: neither wants to feel incomplete.

When you dismiss someone's tale of melancholy as mere whining, when you treat their stories of heartache as trivial and laugh saying, "The fool's just having a breakdown!"—that's when the sorrows already gathered inside them double and harden like stone.

Under the weight of this accumulated grief in their mind, a person slowly gets crushed. Then gradually, they begin to think thoughts centered on self-destruction. This is how we push the people close to us toward suicide, step by careful step. Yes, we push them there, like skilled assassins!

Check on that exuberant friend of yours who has suddenly gone quiet. Look after that close companion who has suddenly reduced contact with everyone. If that creative person near you has suddenly stopped painting, writing stories, taking photographs, or dancing and singing, go to them; you'll find something terrible has happened within them. They may be suffering from depression. A fierce storm may be raging inside them.

With a little support, that person close to you might step back completely from such an extreme decision as suicide. When you place your hand on their shoulder and say, "I'm here, don't be afraid!" they'll think once more about giving themselves another chance.

Even cyclones can be defeated if they meet resistance in time. Even someone trapped in quicksand can emerge if they find a strong hand to pull them up.

With just a little assurance of reliability, that person close to you might return to normal life. Humans are like wax—they melt completely when shown tenderness. With the warmth of love, even an unbloomed flower miraculously bursts into bloom!