Rajkumari's Mind

You look at me, sensing my gaze, staring at you. I avert my eyes, leaving you to wonder what was on my mind. You try to think of all the possible things that the random girl staring at you could be thinking. But what if there were no thoughts at all What if my mind was as blank as your face right now What if I was just looking at you to memorize your smile. To memorize the little creases at the corner of your eyes while you smiled. To memorize the black strands of your overgrown hair adorning your forehead. To take in the warm color of your skin. To see your lips move as you talk. To go past your spectacles to be able to guage the depth of your dark eyes. Like a child, just admiring, the soaring airplane, in awe. Like a bird, chirping its heart out not caring the world listening. Like a piece of straw, floating on the vast ocean, not caring about reaching the shore. What if I tell you I look at you, wishing you knew that you are what courses through my mind, reflecting i

Its time that we stop taking mental health and depression so lightly. It has been far more than just a taboo in India. Society has made this sensitive subject an issue of honour and pride of the suffering individual and his/her family.  We need to support and care about someone going through something instead of ridiculing them by saying things like 'ye sab mann ke khel hai' or 'areyy isko bas attention chaiye' or 'sympathy ke liye kar raha hai'  And to be able to support the ones in need, the first step is to accept that YES, PEOPLE CAN HAVE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES; DEPRESSION IS REAL.  Once society accepts this, people who are going through a lot and suffering alone will come forward, speak, open up and seek help and a life may be saved.  So stop making an issue of mental issues and accept them. You never know who might be suffering all by themselves just because people around them might call them 'mad' or 'crazy' or 'mental' and ridicule