A Child's Duty

A mother's broken heart. One with shattered hopes and dreams of seeing her offspring becoming somebody in life. It wasn't high hopes she placed upon them, it's just what a mother would want for them, a sufficiently good life. A mother's wasted efforts to pave way for a better future when all others failed.

A child's responsibility. A child old enough to understand the consequences of his/her actions should know the difference between right and wrong and should to be capable of obeying
the unwritten law of being filial.

Part of growing up is being under constant peer pressure. It's a subconscious thing we feel that drives us to do things that we otherwise won't see ourselves doing. It gives you that sudden uumph that makes you brave for one second, and do whatever you did in that mere second.

Friends are the most important people, besides your immediate family members, that might permanently affect the way your life take shape. For better or worse. Put the wrong company, the inability to reason and prioritize together and go figure. Can't exactly blame their friends entirely, cos sometimes its not a choice. It happens by chance, when reasoning is something they hadn't learnt at that point of their lives, yet it was the time when they were introduced to the worse of all companies. Using age as a scale of which we place our expectations on is however not quite fair due to differences in personal and psychological maturation, expectations does not correspond to a particular age for every person.

The pain root deep into the parents hearts. Deep down they knew they have to do something about it, but simply ran out of steam by now. Realisation of their wrongdoings doesnt come by overnight. After all, Rome wasn't build in a day. But what are the options they are left with?

I pray for things to get better.

We are in an era where technology are indirectly pushing crime rates higher. During our age, we don't skip classes just to go to the internet cafe. Gone are those days where you see kids running around in the front porch, making up imaginary cooking sessions made out of leaves and treebranches. We can do everything with a couple of clicks on the mouse. Couple of key presses and we're done with what used to take an entire morning of running around town. It's a matter of convenience, but I guess everyone abuse it. Couch potato reinvented. Perhaps the cause of the rising rate of obesity lies there. I'm not against everything wired. In fact I do most of my things in front of the screen. Bills and everything else. I'm strolling that line for a living yo~. It's just that the drastic changes it has on people nowadays that sometimes gives me headspins.

p/s: Oh peeps, check out PointBlanc's IpohMali. Its a great song with fantastic lyrics. (He was former PoeticAmmo's rapper)