Volume 21 No 21 July Aug 2002
 
 

Depression
By Omar Hafeez
Time is ephemeral. Circumstances change with time. Hope is eternal. Tomorrow never dies. Depress souls wake up. Wake up before murk snuggles in your eyes. Wake up before
catastrophe hits your life. Wake up before your soul perishes.
Hysteria, state of melancholy. Depression is a chemistry of compounds composed of elements frustration, remorse and downfalls. These elements initiate a chain reaction; generating depression as its end product.
Quite often we come across people gasping noxious drugs like heroin. Who are these people? They are the product of this chain reaction. Why are they inhaling a toxic? They were passing a sensible life like you and me. Perhaps one day they fell off skies or skies fell on them. One thing is certain, something hit their lives real bad. Then got so distressed that they could not search for better elucidation to their predicament.
The phenomena of depression held hostage their mind and soul. They live in present but their thoughts and minds wander in past. Because they just want that instant to come back again with the intention that they can amend it. They discuss them on and off ,just to lessen their encumbrance.
A software developer by profession, how can I explain this intricate phenomenon? Well my father fell a victim to this. Believe me the agony and pain which I and my family, went through his ailment period is absolutely agonizing. And I always prey that no body shall become its victim.
My father served Army for 23 years. Regarded a resolute chap by his military buddies still he faced paramount resistance in overcoming this phenomenon.
Depression is a phenomenon which encapsulates ones thinking and abilities. It makes one feel aloof. It creates an impression on ones mind that ones family and acquaintances abhor one. One begins to deem oneself a liability. Ones harangue and approach towards life becomes negative. It compels one to think that one has touched rock bottom.
These depress souls wander in past because depression rusts their hope in their individuality and faith in God. It pushes them towards suicide because it extracts life from them. It makes them a living ghost.
Like every disease has a cure. Similarly depression has a cure as well. Depress people go to psychiatrist.
Though his cures work but a heavy responsibility lies on victim’s family. Effective coordination between a psychiatrist and victim’s family always yields positive results.
A depression patient needs to be understood by ones family. No special treatment is required. Behave with one in a normal manner. Avoid talks that could possibly regenerate ones past. Make one realize the credentials and abilities. Always give a positive push. Encourage that nothing is impossible. Never let the victim to sit idly. Engage one in activities. Give examples of people around who Inspite of colossal losses are coping with life in a successful manner.
By exercising all this you are strengthening will power, regenerating hope and bringing one back towards life. You are activating ones nerves and motivating and energizing ones self-belief.
The victim’s family is the one who can normalize and reprogram the victim. Make one feel its you we need.


The misery that craft, murk’s your existence,
Diminish, the supremacy of your resistance,
Which escort to your superfluous demolition,
What’s the advantage of such apprehension?
Wife, My wife

Every body desires to have a mobile phone, a car, reasonable place to live and a trendy wife as his life partner. Mobile phones, cars and places to live are bountiful. But trendy wife’s are not.
Whenever I observe different dimensions of couple. I recall the famous Amitabh song ‘Jis ki biwi moti us ka bhi Bara nam ha, Jis ki biwi kali us ka bhi Bara nam ha, and so on………………..’Who ever wrote the lyrics must have done a thorough research work on different combinations of couples (My discussion is related to Male and Female, not…) .For some I say love is blind. And for some I say their love is really worth it.
Quite often among friends when the issue of marriage is brought up in our discussion. I seldom wait to hit my point. My wife will be trendy. Forgetting the fate of one of my cousins. My handsome cousin spent nearly a year, searching for his ideal girl in town .His campaign ended with an opposite outcome. For him this part of Amitabh songs fit in perfectly,’ Jis ki biwi moti us ka bhi Bara nam ha’. Sorry Bhabi Ji.
Now days it has become a common practice that people register themselves with Marriage Bureaus. The search for a perfect wife and bride is not confined to friends and relatives. Now it’s a door-to-door search.
Person seeking his ideal girl and his households are always excited by the moment, visiting different people they never have known before, eating lots of lots of food from every house. At the end of a day they are too confused.
Make up accessories have done wonders for women world over. Keep your excitement low. A girl, who may emulate the beauty of Miss world in your first meeting, may give you a scare when she takes off her make up.
I have not been married as yet. Though I dream of a trendy wife. But keeping aside my cravings for marriage, I have learned quite a few handy lessons from my cousins.
If beauty is your sole parameter, remember to take home economics classes before your marriage. Because you may end up making bed teas and sandwiches, as wife and life always takes times to settle.
If you are miser person, then practice to become spendthrift. As most of the time you will be following your wife in shopping malls carrying her shopping bags.
Practice to open and close both ears when time arrives. Remember to give equal rights to wife and mother. Otherwise you will be in big trouble. Like my cousin, very cheerful on his marriage day. Three days after marriage he came to our house. Apa my wife has left the house and so as my mother. Please give me some breakfast. (He calls my mother Apa) What can I do? So stick to the policy of equal rights.
When you are with your wife, don’t wander idly. Avoid starring at girls and women that you used to do. Otherwise get ready for pat on the back. Your world is now your wife, my dear.

 
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