Social Prejudice: The Basis of Justice

“Every man who comes against the law must be punished.”

But what if it is by an accident? Do we need to castigate or be castigated?
Last night, I’ve seen news about a collision of a ten wheeler truck and a bus. And it happened as if it was destined to leave no one alive and it shocked the hell out of me. I saw many people died because of this. I saw their families crying their lungs out. As if it will bring their loved ones back to life. And I saw the old poor man who is suspected to cause the disaster was already behind bars. The BUS DRIVER. Who just wanted to earn and feed his family was already convicted and punished by our law. He is starting to pay the crime he never planned to happen, the crime even the law has not yet proven.

But WAIT A MINUTE “kapeng maiinit!”

What do mean by the word ACCIDENT?

For me, it is an event which is UNEXPECTED! UNPLANNED! No one knows it will happen! And no one desires it to happen! When I saw the driver in jail, the only thing I felt was mercy and sympathy for the misfortune that he his suffering. 

Imagine this! People!! Let’s just say. YOU are the driver and definitely you are also inside the bus during that time and YOU know that if you are going to beat a ten wheeler truck BY INTENTION probably you will be the first one to die. NOT YOUR PASSENGERS!! NO ONE wants to die! And yet the bus driver was sentenced “wreck less imprudence resulting to multiple homicides” and a LIFETIME imprisonment! Oh c’mon!

Do you believe that it is really the driver’s fault? Investigation shows that the driver was not using any forbidden drugs, not drunk or even sleepy. No overloading too. Our Government punished the man because they believe that the accident was the driver’s responsibility and YES I agree that it is the driver’s responsibility to take care of his passenger. I believed that the driver exerted his 100% to save lives. But again it is an ACCIDENT.

To be punished that way was severely UNLAWFUL!! Be logical. Don’t be bias.

What I want from our government is to have considerations, and to make the punishments LIGHTER in this type of incident. Because for the nth time. No one wants this to happen!

I might be saying this out of pity. Yes, the driver is pathetic; he doesn’t have someone on his side. Or perhaps, I’m seeing the face of prejudice as the basis of justice.

The summer sun

Summer, the most anticipated season of the year, the students are on vacation. Messing around with there little crappy actions.

The sun… The sun that seems so bright, brighter than the usual but always the same sun I look up to every morning. The same sun that I cursed when it’s almost burning my skin yet during summer, it was like changing its face and put a big happy smile and waving hands on its façade. It can fire any gloom away and leave a spirit all hyped up for the day.

However, any season without climax will never be complete. And the highlight of this season is to plunge under the sparkling water of the sea. Be submerged in its stunning blue and green waves. Be spell bounded, be dazzled, and crave to be part of the ocean. And let the sun above the cloud less sky be your spotlight as you dance your way out of the powdery white sand.

Time will come that sun will set, a sign that the night was about to come. And the darkness will soon evade our paradise. A time that tells us that even sun has to rejuvenate itself.

As I bid goodbye to the sun for the rainy days are about to come let it astonished us some more and say, “It was definitely fun under my summer sun.”