This post is about one of our collegians who committed suicide last week. He was Bachelor of Science in law, and it was his fourth semester. I saw him three or four time with my friends. They worked on a project related to family law, and he had the role of the judge in this case.
His suicide’s news shocked everybody in university, and all professors started to talk about him and criticize his temerity.
You know after happening such events especially in small places like our faculty, news turn into gossips in two minutes, so I don’t know exactly why he did that, but one of them is about “Hedayat” and his memorable novel “ The Blind Owl”. They said he read his stories . Oh, come on. I read “The Blind Owl” over fifteen times and even once I didn’t think about committing suicide.
In our religion, suicide is forbidden and it’s one of the unforgiving sins, and in the opinion of our people, nothing must cause a person do this cardinal sin, but sometimes miseries and adversities of life cannot be tolerated by people because they have different capacities and sometimes life withers the stamina of the heartiest adventurer.
first of all SAMO ALEIK.then as you have mentioned.let's first walk with one's shoes for a while and then judge(or criticize)their way of walking.u are a perfect author and I enjoyed your last 2 lines greatly.
ReplyDeleteReading a novel couldn't make anybody to commit suicide. Surely there were much more factors. Our current social, economical and political conditions are so bad and one shouldn't be astonished by hearing such things. You are a student of law and certainly you know that everyday we have such horrible in our newspaper. The only way to stop such things is to improve our social and economical conditions and it is not possible except by reforming the regime and political power.
ReplyDeleteVery sad incident.
ReplyDeleteLike Behzad, I enjoyed the last 2 lines so much.
Regards and good luck.
Let's not judge a book by its cover. Who knows what situation he was in. But my own idea is that people with strong characters my even get to the point where they're on the verge of committing suicide but they finally decide not to.... it was a sad news anyway.
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