Only compare yourself to your previous self, no one else

 

Everyone at the house was asleep. It was 2:30am; she was sitting in the balcony, starring at the sky. She was crying silently. Tears were rolling down her cheeks. There was something hurting her, something she couldn’t even share with anyone of her family or friends. A storm of thoughts was brewing in her brain. Was she guilty of anything; or only being born in this world was her fault? She was the only one who was capable of answering such type of questions.

Suddenly, she wiped off her tears and stood up. After switching off her mobile she moved towards her parents’ bedroom; touched their feet inaudibly, opened the medicine box of her mother took out a bottle and went back to her room. She bursted into tears once again, opened the bottle and swallowed maximum amount of the tablets. After few seconds she started becoming unconscious and fell down. No one knew what happened to her till next morning when her mother came to wake her up. Seeing her daughter dead, mother lost her mind and a paralysis attack seized her. A small happy family collapsed away in just few hours. There was nothing left but mourning, tears and agony.

After few days her family members found the reason of her suicide. “Social Media”, yes, you read it right; social media was the cause of her death. She had friends in some elite families, their fabulous lifestyles, their lavish living standards, their colourful life, their show off nature and their fake successes fascinated her. She wanted to be like them but she belonged to a low income family who could only fulfil basic necessities of life. Spending a luxurious life was out her reach.

My dear readers! ALLAH Almighty has created a variety of people in this World. There are 195 countries and in these countries there are people of different ages, different gender identities, physical appearances, religious believes, ethnicities, speaking different languages, having different skin tones, eating different kinds of food and wearing discriminable dresses. ALLAH Almighty established this diversification only for making this world colourful and a place full of happiness and joys, keeping we "The Humans" away from boredom and sense of melancholy. A well said quotation about this diversified world is, "Variety is spice of life". Life without the co-existence of diversity is like food without salt, basically worthless and boring.

But what we “The Humans” did to this place of happiness? We created categories, we divided Humans in different castes, creeds and classes. These divisions and distributions developed a sense of competition, envy, jealousy, anger and also made us all familiar to the terms like 'Superiority' and 'Inferiority'.

We are no more what we were created. We are no more ourselves, instead, we have now become followers. Our jealousies have made us killers, murderers, massacrers, rapists and bloody slaughterers. We have stopped comparing ourselves to our previous selves. Greed of becoming superior and powerful has made all of us blind dogs and zombies transforming the whole concept of making this World Diversified; a place of joy and happiness.