I guess, because I'm nowhere near the couple's position, you can choose to deny the words of my post. I also feel that I'm somehow contradicting myself, by saying that I would be depressed in their situation, but live on. And that, suicide seems so easy, yet that I'd live on.
Before you go quesioning their resolve, I must ask you if you'd rather live in misery or go to sleep and hope for a better tomorrow? If you have better suggestions that'd actually lead somewhere, then please share. Kids running away in a third world country doesn't seem much better alternative.
Then what's the point of 'perseverance', and hard work? How can you ever expect to solve a problem, if you don't attempt it?!
What was the point of your past experiences, if you decided to drop everything you've learned and gone through at a dead end? You can climb the wall, or turn back! Find another route!
Sure, it's obviously harder and more miserable to live on. But there's a chance of survival, and surviving with each other as well.
And you can
make your happiness. You can change your mindset to be happy as well. Optimism?
I'm not saying that its easy though. Of course not. And of course, at times it will seem misreable.
I guess answering your question also depends on one's perspective on life. For instance, not everyone out there thinks that the point of life is to be happy (of course, they would like to feel happiness though.)
alot of people are acting as if they knew their life's situations, what kind of families they had. Who's to say they didnt look for other options? They were under aged, with a teenage mindset, they didnt have the opportunity to think the way we do. They were born in another country with different morals, cultural rules etc, who's to say if you werent born there, and u were put in their situation, you wouldnt do the same? You only think that way cuz like most ppl born in well developed countries such as US, Europe. etc, only see one side, and dont try to see both sides for what it is. You only think that way cuz where you grew up, you are taught different morals, and taught and raised differently. So for you it might be pitiful, but for them, it was probably better off to die, then to let the one you love suffer. Dont be so narrow minded.
I don't think what they did was pitiful. Because suicide was most definetly the 'sweeter' choice in their situation. But I do feel they made...the 'wrong' choice.
Who's to say they couldn't somehow survive? Why wouldn't they at least attempt so? Of course it'll be a hopeless road, but who's to say the end won't be bright, unless they actually take it?
If they could meet secretly, and plan all this, why didn't they use that time and effort into running away, and planning a future for themselves?!
I wouldn't. I'd compare living in misery to a long depression. You can take it for a while until one day you just want it all to end. What's there to live for if you cannot find happiness?
That's if the purpose of your life is to be happy. Not everyone lives by that code. Sometimes, if one had a goal or something to meet (a goal they extremely desire / a place they want to reach in life), they would go through the misery, in order to reach that goal or end. IMO. If they were desperate enough.
I feel the couple could've attempted the same. If they wanted to be together, live together, cherish moments in life together, they could have strived for it. The road would be misreable and hard, but the end could be sweet. Why not try finding out?
...And if they did run away, and still ended up dying; they'd still have died togeather, or at least, under the name of their 'love'.
I agree. Its easy to say I'd rather live a life of misery than commit suicide. Most ppl who commit suicide think they're ives are miserable. Thats a really ignorant thing to say especially since you have no idea what real misery is.
Misery is living life as a slave, or in a country where you never eat, born just to die a shrt time later..in those conditions I'd rather die. If my whole country was after me, including my parents, Id want to die, because you talk about Love, without it, most ppl would commit suicide.
I personally think suicide is easier than a life of misery. It's an enticing to choice, to finally escape the huge stress / depression. Really, it is.
But that would make my life pointless; I mean, that's deciding to drop everything I learned, the people I've met, the experiences I've faced, just because Iv'e reached a problem I could not solve, or a state I think I cannot get out of.
