"Mother Teresa once said that her most important work is with the dying, because she considers life so precious. "A life is an achievement and dying is the end of that achievement". It's when we are pushed to the edge of life that we see life most clearly. In sharing their lessons, the dying teach us much about the preciousness of life itself. In them we discover the her, that part that transcends all we have been through and delivers us to all we are capable of doing and being. Not just being alive, but feeling alive".
Indeed, Mother Teresa. The World is a "mess", was it like this before? Very critic of me to say so... Yet truth to what it seems to be. Times have change, we have moved to the new generation as know by others 21st Century.
Is this how our society looks like? I was watching One Day Leader show on SABC1 [South African Broadcasting Cooperation] few months back, the episode of Teen Pregnancy. When a 19 year-old girl with three kids was asked why pregnant at such a young age? She the replied by saying, no playgrounds and libraries to keep 'us' [teenagers] busy in our Prov ince!!!
The palce she stays at is rural in the North West Province. There are no facilities to accomedate the youth, such as Libraries, playgrounds, youth programs [art & culture] to keep them busy after school and on weekends. The provincial area is not sustained. Yet, It does not give way to such behaviour. Teen pregnancy is one of the major problems in our country and girls are ones targeted, whereas boys are single out of their equal responsibility. Boys must behold accountable and not forgetting perpetrators who impregnate young girls, older men known as "Sugar Daddies".
The Department of Sport and Recreational Facility in North West has put blame at the parents. "Parents don't talk to their children about the consequences of sex, no advisory is given to them in their homes and schools, we mus not be held fully accountable for the problem", they said. There are two sides of the story, when a Mother of 19 year-old was asked she said, I have tried my best to talk to my daughter about sex and failed immensely and on the other hand I blame the Department of Sports and Recreational Facility", she said. Both parties are blaming one another, instead of working together in order to solve this problem.
Speaking of which, Durban International Film Festival held is annual ceremony last week, 'The Good Report' film was banned due to the misunderstanding between the context and the message verses that of free speech. It is arguably that the film depicts Child Pornography, children will be exposed to the material and would want to experience it. The Good Report is about a sixteen year-old character girl who gets involve with her school Teacher. There are sex scenes between the teacher and 16 year-old, where it all raise eyebrows when viewed thereafter consequences arise.
"The film tackles issues that needs to be seen. This things are happening, we need to debate the merit of the film", said Professor Anthony Haber on Radio 702. "We don't want to pretend that such things don't exist for example murder, rape, drugs and so on... happens under 'our' watch in the society we live", he continued.
While on the issue of teenagers, study revealed-conducted by the Department of Social Development shown that teenagers don't like using condoms. They prefer branded ones but can't afford them, reason being those condoms provide by the Government is not trusted by many.
What an excuse! It equals a high rate of HIV&AIDS amongst the youth. "Foundation laid for us while we were children is inherited in us. Charity begins at home, good foundation speaks for itself and brings the best future", says Dr Eve[the usual sex therapist/expect on Redi Thlabi's show] on Radio 702. Why blame the Government? "People are deliberately not using condoms because they want to have fun, others want to prove a point based on cultural merits whereby men want to prove that of their manhood by impregnating women", she said.
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