'Boy, 15, stabbed over Facebook fight'
The words you never want to read. The words that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. The words that send shivers down your spine. 15 years old, with his entire life ahead of him. The saddest part is, he isn't the first, and he will not be the last.
These types of headlines in the news have become all too common in recent years, and we must ask why?
Why is this even happening in our society?
Why do 15 year old children, sometimes younger, feel the need to carry a knife?
Why are these incidents forgotten a week or two after they occur?
Why?
Why?
Why?
I 100% agree with the fact that the people who did this, and commit these sorts of crimes daily around the globe, need to be caught and punished accordingly. However, I can't help but feel that if a little more time, a little more effort, a little more care, went into finding out the motives behind the crime, and educating our children on the consequences, we might slowly, very slowly, begin the very long journey towards cutting out knife crime.
As I grapple with my thoughts on this topic, somewhere across the country may be a child (because that is what they are, children), who is angry, confused and lost. Who unfortunately, feels the need to carry a weapon, whether it's a gun or a knife or something else. For what? Protection? Self defence? Who knows? And if, or should I say when, the situation arises where they feel the 'need' to use this weapon, we will once again be reading those harsh cruel words:
'Boy, 15, stabbed over Facebook fight'
Hollie McNish is an up and coming poet from the UK. Her videos never cease to inspire and amaze me, and this one video in particular I decided to share because it was relevant to today's topic, so please take out a few minutes to listen to her thought-provoking poetry.
:-) x
