If Only.....
In the days after the declaration of the results for tenth grade, a very disturbing message was doing the rounds of some social media sites. Apparently a 15-year-old had been declared to have failed in one of the subjects and was subjected to humiliation, when her school told her that she had brought ill-repute to her school. The girl unable to face the humiliation of being branded a failure committed suicide only to be declared to have passed the subject. What the message tried to tell us was that if only she had waited a few more days or maybe even a few more hours’ things may have been different. It would have been a tight slap in the faces of those who did not believe in her. Instead, it has become a lesson in how easily we give up in the face of adversity, leaving behind a family who struggles to deal with what could have been. In most of the cases this is true. If only we had a little more patience and waited or looked elsewhere, we may have found what we have been lookin...