Thursday, March 24, 2011

Blog Prompts 7 - Should we care about what happens in places far away from where we live in general?


Well, I feel that we should care about what happens in places far away from us. "Why?!" many of you may cry. "Those things happen in places far away,they do not affect us! They only happen there! They won't happen here!" But that's where you are wrong.
Any incident that happens anywhere on Earth can happen just as quickly, just as mercilessly anywhere else. There is no such thing as an isolated incident or event that will only happen once and at that particular place. As George Santayana once said, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." And so we too must learn from both past and present challenges and use that knowledge to avoid such incidents in the future. Anyway, it just happens that one particular incident happened today that I would like to bring light to. A few people who I will not be naming (*ahem*losers*cough*) were caught playing computer games in class today after school. For many of them, it was their second offence. Like I said, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." I only knew of this as I have lent my laptop to one of those who were caught. But its alright people, I will be getting it back tomorrow and the blogging shall continue. I'm blogging this on a 7 year-old (at least) computer (I'm not joking). Anyway, back to the topic.
Those people have been given a warning and have already gotten their laptops confiscated for a month, yet they persist in their behavior. If what George Santayana said is true, and I believe it is so, then these people would keep on getting their laptops confiscated again and again unless they learn from their mistakes and do not commit such 'crimes' in the future. All in all, I feel that this is why we should care about what happens in places far away from us so as to learn from their mistakes and take precautions against making such mistakes in the future. Illuminano il buio!

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