Death
note:
I pushed my way through to get to the bus,
I climbed the stairs to the top deck and found an empty seat at the third row
from the end. I sat down and started settling myself, while I was going
through my bag to find the headphones, a page on the floor caught my eyes. It
looked as it was torn off a wired notebook, carelessly, as the bottom was ripped
off.
In a very neat and large font somebody
wrote:
Dear all,
I love you all…
Please forgive me…
Goodbye…
Not signed, no indication of the name or
who is “all”? I looked around holding it in my hand to see if anybody would reclaim
ownership and shout: that’s mine? I looked at the faces to match the
handwriting, but there was no sign of an owner…
Looked at it again and started saying to
myself this looks like a death note! Somebody was writing his death note!
Why I am saying “his”? could be “her”?!
Who’s this “person? Why they left it on
the bus? Why I picked it up? What shall I do with it?
Have they done it yet, suicide? Is he or
she dead now? Maybe I can save him from killing himself! Again I was assuming
it is a man… maybe it is a man, the way the paper is torn off so carelessly
might indicate it is a man. But the handwriting is very neat, so it could be a
woman.
But why does he or she want to kill
themselves? Is He/ she very depressed? Could I save him/ her? What I would say
to stop him, her, from suicide? What could I say to make him/ her change
his/her mind? I could say how life is great, how I overcome troubles and manage
to live a happy life. But how true is that? Am I happy? Have I succeeded in my
life? I feel very bad about myself and my life! I am depressed most of the
time. My sense of underachievement and not have any value of life has combined
me all through my life. How many times I hoped I will die? Did I ever think of
suicide? Maybe this is my death note? Maybe this is my handwriting! Maybe these
are my last words!