Citizens becoming more inhumane

Sir,

When you vividly look at today’s world, citizens are becoming more and more inhumane, uncontrollable and dangerous.

Almost every day we hear news of people being abused, killed and tortured to death. What makes people do such painful acts?

We hear of couples who have been happily married ending up killing one another.

Is it because they are bad people; is that why they commit atrocious murders? All this while others are absolutely caring, loving and responsible when it comes to their families.

When I hear that a man has killed his wife or girlfriend, before I reach a conclusion, I try to understand exactly what caused him to think of doing such a terrible thing.

Protect

Sometime back, a God-fearing man killed himself and his loved one, the one he was supposed to protect. I tried to find out about a lot of things about him, especially his personality and character, and it dawned on me as it was clearly unpacked that he was a humble, respective, kind and generous person.

It, therefore, tormented my mind why he decided to do such a terrible thing to a person he was supposed to love. I was convinced that if he could be brought back to life, he would regret what he did with all his being. So this got me thinking and wondered what was really happening behind closed doors. What is really happening in relationships that is being kept away from public scrutiny?

Demonic

being. People nowadays do not know how to control anger, but instead it takes control of them. It even leads the most responsible of citizens into committing murder.

Nowadays, people are vehemently angered, they lose themselves, they lose their senses and that is why they act so violently and weirdly, which is not supposed to be the case.

Of course we cannot avoid anger, but we can control it. In fact we have to do all we can to control it.

The moment you feel your blood boiling, don’t listen to the thoughts that may invade your mind.

We need to learn and get used to talking to neutral people and reveal your thoughts, as this will go a long way in avoiding doing bad things.

Philisiwe Mdluli