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| A security guard holds the knife believed to have been used by a student to stab to death another student at Moi University's Eldoret town campus March 21, 2016. [nation.co.ke] |
Suicide cases among youths have skyrocketed
posing a big question on how all these horrific incidences are going to be
eradicated. Hardly does a day elapse without hearing of a youth stabbing
another here and one shooting the other there. This is worrying and becomes a
question of who will die next, where and how?
Numerous
youths are entangled in love that they cannot think right whenever they face
challenges in their relationships. What normally comes into their mind as a
solution is the most ancient idea one can ever have in mind and it leaves both
parties as losers.
Youths
have combined love and drunkenness and with this combination, it is difficult
to curb the rampant killings. Most of them are university students who possibly
think they are the only ones in love. They are more prone to these deaths
because they do not have enough strength to resist disappointments from their
lovers. They have an illusion that everybody is perfect including their lover
Expecting no kind of
secrecy from their lovers, these youths go on to invest greatly in their
relationships and once they get to know that they are in a joint account with
another person, results are usually not far away from death. Sometimes it dawns
on one that what he or she has achieved in a relationship all along is an STD
probably HIV/Aids. And without second thought, he or she commits suicide
because they cannot stand the pain.
Youths should wake up
immediately from their slumber and think critically about their lives. They
should be very careful when making decisions. They should consider their future
and try to figure out what it could be holding for them.
They should avoid drunkenness
because it is one of the causes of these deaths. When most youths get
introduced to drugs and alcohol, they take them like there is no tomorrow. This
affects their actions as well as judgements. Let's not ruin our lives. We have
dreams to fulfill for our country and for our future generations.
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It is a question of
self-drive and self-definition to the youths. There is little that the law can
do to shape them. Parents also can do very little especially when they realize
their son or daughter is a grown up. Therefore, it is up to them to govern
themselves on a personal level since the law cannot help them think and come up
with the right options to assist them.
(This article first appeared on Woman Eve- Kenya).
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