Times of Eswatini

Violence never a solution!

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Sir,

Allow me to breathe peace and talk some sense to some confused souls. Good people, I should say that nowadays we have seemingly forgotten that we’re all human, we’re all equal in the eyes of the Lord despite the difference­s in gender. I must say most of us have lost morals and principles and I fear God has done more than enough to forgive us. Back in the day, peace and stability were on everyone’s minds, but these days violence has been made one of the common ways of interactio­n. What went wrong?

Touching

If one can make a follow up on our daily news, it’s so touching how women are turned into punching bags and killed by those they love. As far as I understand the definition of love and affection, I see what’s happening as the opposite of what love is. If you say you love her then why hurt her? If she makes you happy, why are you killing her? When she’s gone, who else will make you happy and understand you like she did? I still fail to answer some questions pertaining this issue. It pains me when I read newspapers and come across stories about women dying under the name of love.

Well, maybe we love too much and we forget that we should love ourselves first. Maybe we give our all to our partners rather giving our all to God. It hit me hard one day, when my girlfriend said that we open too much to wrong people and we move too fast in loving the wrong people. I might say that right and responsibl­e people are just folding their arms watching while our sisters and mothers are dying helplessly. I just wonder how verdicts of some murder cases are narrowed and those of housebreak­ings and theft are made so major.

Crying

Each and every night when I go to bed, I think of the women who are screaming loudly crying for help. Some voices are saying we’ve had more than enough, some saying we owe men nothing and some saying can we go back to the old days, where a male was a man, a father and a husband not a perpetrato­r of violence.

I fear God will curse us all, especially all irresponsi­ble men. I’m pretty sure that God is never blind to see tears of a praying women; He’s never deaf to hear prayers and screams of thousands of tortured women. My mother once told me that nothing is stronger that a woman’s prayer. So I just wonder what would happen to all cruel men. Men, let us all say no to gender-based violence.

Facts

It pains me to know that, to most, my words will just fall on deaf ears. I just wonder why one becomes judged for voicing out true facts and favoured for encouragin­g wrong actions. Maybe those are signs of the world coming to an end. I believe in the loyalty of the minority because the majority always favour wrong. Well, if that’s the case, allow me to breathe life into those interested so that when my time comes I would die knowing that I have served the nation perfectly well.

Violence and aggression are never better means of solving issues. God never gave us hands to hurt others, He gave us a heart to love; not what is bad but to love what is right. If she makes you happy, make her happy too and if she’s the woman of your dreams, make her meet you in dreamland, always. Be the reason she’s happy, love her the way you want to be loved. Violence is never a solution!

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