by Vishmi Wijeratne
Years of hard work, patience, sweat, time and dreams, all shattered
in one moment, but still, a very famous girls school remains in the lime
light, yet for nothing that it could be proud of, because the school's
once greatness is shattered now into many glistening pieces in the
common people's eye. Why? It's just how the modern society stimulates.
 The death of the fourteen year old is, indeed tragic, yet now there
is something more tragic rising from her ashes, it's as if a whole new
world is opening in each person's eye: young and old, but this world is
nothing great, in my opinion. Infact, it's very sad.
The reason for the youngster's terrible decision is still in a stage
unknown, yet people are quite busy being innovative and exaggerating on
the limited leaked information which is not even known to be
affirmative.
Tragical as the incident is, I don't see anyone interested in
contributing something to stop an incident like this happening again.
And it is also the actual reason for her death, because no one was
and is not interested in finding solutions for the problems that had
been occurring since modernization.
They say it's the school's fault, yet if a teacher is not supposed to
look into a student's misdeeds at school, who is? The girl did break a
school rule, and so did many others before her, yet it was only her fate
to die.
What is depicted here is the continuously weakening bond between
teacher and student.
A teacher was the second mother to many of us, she was the person we
chose to be more close with, but now she has taken in to dictating, a
teacher should understand her students, and nowadays it's rare, so when
a student disobeys they tend to be harsh to the student. This is not
something that happened overnight the bond was weakening for some time,
yet no one noticed.
It's not only the teacher-student bond that is declining, the
parent-child bond is almost in shreds. Parents nowadays are so busy in
filling up their larder; they don't have time for their child. Why can't
parents nowadays find time to look into their child's deeds? Is it so
difficult to be close to their own flesh and blood? They have passed
their child's age, so why can't they understand that it is very
intriguing not to have anyone to talk to.
These two issues did contribute to provoking the girl into taking
such a terrible decision, and so did modern technology: yet we can't
blame technology for it, because if it was misused then it's the user's
fault not of others.
The girl died, no one can bring her back, yet we can avoid it
happening again to another girl or even a boy. And next time it might be
your daughter/son or your sister/ brother. So why isn't anyone taking
measures against it. Why is the majority using this tragic incident as a
shield to achieve their own personal motives? What is so amusing about
her death that her fellow students of the country, also older and
younger students imitating her death to girls of her school? It's not
funny, and it is very irritating and sickening.
The measures taken by the government to ban the usage of phones and
inappropriate web pages can't be blamed on the students of her school.
They didn't do anything! I think it's for the greater good and there may
be more who think so too.
The death is tragic but what is going on now as a result is even more
tragic. What happened to her can happen to another, if you would like
things to be like this? What happened, happened, we can't change that
but we can see that something more tragic will not arise from her ashes,
if the society continues to behave in this way the result will be more
tragic than ever imagined. So let's be aware of it. |
