Forgiveness

                Can forgiveness be easily given to someone who does terrible things to many people?  Such as a warlord kidnapping children and forcing them to be sex slaves for over 20 years? I don’t think so. 

                This person had been committing this crime for over 20 years.  He had plenty of time to stop and get forgiveness.  Reasonably, someone can assume that this amount of time was all of his adult life, and someone cannot easily change something they have been doing that long.  Logically, even if this person were given forgiveness, he would not change. 

                Also, this man was taking the lives of children.  This would mentally scar them, turning them into monsters because of what they were put through.  This would also deprive them of a normal future with a family.  What if one of these children could have made a cure for cancer? Or AIDS? In this way, the man is also depriving the world of potentially vital minds because they would never reach their true potential as human beings. 

                Thousands of children could have been effected by this one man, and no one has the right to negatively affect the outcome of one person’s life, let alone thousands. 

young? or just stupid?

            We are young, but does that mean we have to make stupid decisions?  In the song by snoop Dog, Wiz Khalifa, and Bruno Mars, they say that they live “young, and wild and free.” But is this really the best way for teenagers to feel?  As a teenager, there is a lot of pressure for us to do things that are not the best things for our futures, and can get us into a lot of unnecessary trouble.  In fact, we are not given much freedom from our parents, not only because they think that we will make bad decisions ourselves, but it is expected at our age.

            “The worst mistake is to not make any.” I have heard this saying a lot since I became a teenager, but I wonder if there is any truth behind it.  Can it really be a mistake to follow the many rules and regulations given to us from teachers, parents, and other forms of authority? All of these rules are put into place by people who have lived through the teenage years, and if they don’t want us to make mistakes, then it can’t also be a mistake to strive to be perfect.  While I know it is impossible to be perfect, isn’t it what we all secretly try to be? So, what makes us think about rebelling during this point in our lives?