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Jul 05, 2014 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
I am writing this letter because I have heard and seen one atrocity too many. I was watching the news, something I avoid doing lately, in order to preserve my peace of mind, when I saw a mother grieving for her child who yet another reckless driver had killed on the road.
I see the recklessness whenever I go out and it has become necessary to pray each time I venture out that God will take me to my destination safely and bring me back home safely. When will it all end? When will all the road carnage end? When will all the other atrocities end?
Quite recently I gave a lift to a young lady I know and she proudly told me that she had her licence but she still had to learn to drive. She had completed the theory. She claimed that the opportunity presented itself, so she took it, i.e. got her licence. She didn’t see anything wrong with that statement, being a product of our society, where right is wrong and wrong is right. I cautioned her about the implications of driving on the road without knowing to drive, and likely killing someone. She assured me that she would not take the wheel on her own until she learnt to drive.
We have many drivers on the road, who know nothing about the rules of driving, or if they do they couldn’t care less. Why should they care? We, this society, by our silence have indicated that it is okay for persons in high official positions to leave the scene of an accident without rendering assistance. That tells the young people out there not to bother with the rules of the road or the laws of Guyana. There are many other instances of persons holding high office, showing no regard for the law, for fair play or justice. So what are we telling the young? We are telling them that they can go out and drink, then get behind the wheels of a car and drive, and if they injure anyone, it is no big thing!
It is time for us as a nation to talk to our children, to point out that the things that are happening in this society are barbaric and not to be emulated. Young people tend to look up to persons in high office. We therefore have to impress their minds that in our situation they should not. Our young people are being destroyed by the unethical behaviour of the persons they believe know best.
I pray that God will comfort that mother whose only child died Thursday (July 3, 2014) and all the other parents who lost their children to the lawlessness that is taking place on our roads.
I was visiting a relative the other day and there was a funeral nearby. A young lady, not wanting to park far from the home where the funeral was taking place; had decided the best thing to do was to park across the entrance to my relative’s home, preventing access to the bridge for persons who lived there to park their vehicles. This happens pretty often too, as part of the breakdown in the society. It is not the first time I have experienced it.
When she finally left the funeral service and came to move her car, she quite prepared to say “Sorry” as if that was sufficient to make up for the lack of consideration she showed for who lived and visited there. We are all sorry about what is happening, but sorry just is not enough. We have to use our voices. Our silence is enabling the lawlessness. If we think that keeping quiet safeguards our own assets, we may be very wrong. There is an old saying “Today for me, tomorrow for you”. We should remember that.
We are continuing to degenerate into a society of ill-bred, ill-mannered bunch of hoodlums who do not know how to behave in public, and we are taking young people who do not know better, along for the ride.
God help us!!!!
Rosemarie Terborg Davis
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