I saw this today and it didn’t sadden me. But it made me mad. Reaaally mad. So here I am, pissed off and growling like a grizzly bear. Okay, maybe not a grizzly bear but a bear. Any kind of a bear. You decide that. So, now I wonder about the issue of the on-going gang violence in Maldives. No wonder eh? No wonder ‘kids’ these days enter gangs and resort to violence as means of communicating how they feel. How they feel, I say, ‘cos usually as far as I believe, these fights are means of retaliation ‘cos someone somewhere got pissed off and wanted to say something to this certain other someone somewhere.
Kids, are exposed to these vulgar behaviour from their parents. A slap to make them understand that something is wrong. A spank to say he shouldn’t have gone somewhere, and that with a stick. Tsk. In this video, you can actually hear the woman ask him why he went to a certain place. If that’s the method you’re gonna use to make your child talk or be responsible for his actions, he ain’t resorting to any other method after he grows up. He doesn’t see any other way than to hurt or frighten someone to communicate. Cultivating fear looks like the best method to make someone obey or understand what they feel or how they feel about something.
Using fear is more of a restrictive method. Fear restricts people from looking beyond the bigger picture. You might see the bigger picture, but can you ever see beyond that big picture you have painted? Those who use fear to make people listen to them or obey are people who really doesn’t understand how the human mind works. Fear just produces more violence. You get them afraid, you expect them to behave. But in turn, you are just recruting a rebel. Someone who’s gonna say “enough” and retaliate one day. So my dear parents, think twice before you try hitting your child. Even if he misbehaves.
PS. I’m an adult too, but still… damn those adults!!!

