All around our dear great world.
In London, 14 people arrested for knife possession within the past two weeks.
In Glasgow, teens from Real Calton Tong gang fear walking past a sport complex because of the fear of being stabbed to death.
In Durham, a driver found a woman dead near Ellis road.
In Torquay, the stabbing of a 43-year old man led to the arrest of a 20-year old hero who returned from Iraq.
In Johannesburg, four schoolboys were charged with the stabbing of a 17-year old Greenside High school student.
In Honolulu, another stabbing of an innocent victim occurs a month after stabbings at Koko Head.
What on earth is going on! This time, I’m focusing on stabbings because it’s just too close to home. What is the drive, what is their drive? Is it something within the human brain that demands absurd behavior or the need to satisfy violent acts? These crimes are as random as they can get; happening to all sorts of people performed by all kinds of statuses. Thank you captain obvious—schoolboys, heroes, gangs, The Unstable. Is there one particular way that we can address this? Are we to watch out for suspicious acts and be the watchdogs for ourselves? Are we to warn others of harmful acts? Who are we suppose to tell, the one right beside us? How are we to be sure that that very one beside us is not the one who will harm us? Or is it us that will inflict harm upon someone else?
Whatever happened to the good old days when we could walk into a store for ten minutes, having left our car unlocked without the fear of someone robbing our vehicle, let alone stealing the entire thing? Whatever happened to the good old days when we could take our families to parks without the notion of having some prick fuck preying on our loved ones? Whatever happened to the good old days when we could take a morning job without being harassed? Whatever happened to the good old days when we could go to sleep peacefully without having our kids hear the sound of a dying man who had just been severely beaten?
Whatever happened to the good old safe days?
Be courteous to all, intimate with few, and let those be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Pray because all that’s left is to…
Let Go, and Let God.