Upon hearing the news that a 12-year-old girl hung herself in their shanty because of extreme depression and poverty, I could not find words to console myself. What has this society come to?
Two things: 1. This society is so poverty-stricken that the hopelessness and desperation in the air drive even innocent children up the wall.
2. This society has media so liberal and free that it has taught even the most naive how to commit the most inhumane and unimaginable acts of violence.
I can only have a bruised heart for this little girl, Mariannet. I could not imagine how miserable she felt that she thought that the only solution to her woes is to end her short-lived life. No, I could not imagine. I never could. But I could speculate of how it must have been for her and her family.
Their family's finances must have been in such a real mess. They were not able to have their meals. The children were not able to go to school. Or if the children did go, they had no books and school supplies with them.
Their relationship with each member of the family must have been deteriorating because of their financial crisis. The mother and father frequently fight. The children gaze into empty space, in an attempt to drown out the yells and heated arguments between their parents.
It must have been an ultimately dreary day. Mariannet's tears fall, as desperation and hopelessness settles even deeper in her young soul. She, with her frail and weak built, readies a makeshift noose. She makes that one last step and hangs herself.
Her story is truly heartbreaking. If a poor little 12-year-old girl, who's supposedly still optimistic of the world and full of hope, had it in herself to end her own life...we should all have it in our selfish and to-hell-with-them attitudes, to kill ourselves as well. It is, anyway, our fault...for culturing a society that allows little angels like Mariannet to fall onto the ground.
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