How sensitive are we?

Every day the world gets a bit more crazier and so does my mind. I am baffled by the insensitivity people show towards each other. Be it your friends, colleagues, bosses, relatives or your social media followers for that matter. You open up your social account and there are blaring examples of utter nonsense this world pours in every minute of the day.

We see or hear someone attempting a suicide and there we are throwing instant judgements on how weak that person was to run away from the challenges in life without even knowing the victim's state of mind which led him/her to take such drastic measures. We live in a world which constantly emphasises on eating well, sleeping well and staying healthy but we give so little attention to emotional well-being. Even in office, it's okay to take a leave of absence if you are having fever or headache or any other physical ailment, but if you are feeling stressed and need an off to clear your mind, it is not considered a good enough reason. Instead you get a moral lecture from the management that stress and hectic schedule is part of the job. Is it not proved that if you are not well emotionally it eventually takes a toll on your physical health? And why does it have to be stressful in the first place? Why can’t we have effective resource management where the employee is not slogging for 10 hours a week and even on weekends? Why do we have Employee Assistance Programs when they seldom reach out to the employees?

There are articles printed/uploaded and published , where they suggest to talk to friends or anyone close about how you feel. But how many of us whom a depressed/ stressed person reaches out to actually listen to their story? Instead we all consider ourselves as certified therapists and set out giving advice on how he/she should work on self and ignore the rest, then we dust our hands thinking our work is done. Do we all understand that at times what someone in distress needs the most is an audience who listens? No judgements, no solutions, no preaching, just a confidante to open up to.

May be if we all acknowledge that the person in front of us who claims is losing it, is being stressed, is getting irritated and is not the normal self ; is actually going through all of those emotions, try to listen what he/she has to say and show some empathy we may not have so many people suffering from depression and gradually committing suicide. It's time we start giving equal importance to emotional well-being ! May be then we all become a bit more human and less robotic in this ever changing mechanical world of people who are obsessed with the rat race of achieving one milestone after the other.