Life's Realisation

  Can children or adults truly escape the snares of abusers or past trauma? Is there light at the end of the tunnel for such victims? When children are abused physically and/or mentally at a very young age they will end up with invisible scares that cannot be healed. It will haunt them for life. For example, it was nothing short of disturbing to watch the News1st video related to the above news article on Newswire (Police hunt for man caught on video assaulting toddler) , which was also widely shared on social media. It was like a clip from a horror movie. This so-called father calls his toddler to eat. He feeds the child some food and in the same go punches this little child in the face with a closed fist and the toddler falls to the ground. After a few minutes the father calls the child again to eat. This child obeys his father and goes to be fed with tears streaming down his face, only this time to be brutally assaulted even harder and to go flying to the ground like a paper ro...

Whether it be in selecting a course of study or selecting a life long partner, it is commonplace to hear about numerous instances where parents have pressurised their children into doing things against their own freewill. This is simply because parents think that they can rule their children’s lives because they were instrumental in bringing them into the world. I think it is highly unfair, coz after all the children will have to live with the consequences of such decisions in the end. What’s utterly tragic is the fact that generally in certain cultures the parental “Iron fist ruling” tradition keeps reoccurring over and over again, due to it being inculcated in their society and community. All children long for love, affection and understanding from their parents irrespective of whether they are a toddler or an adult. Domineering parents fail to see their children for who they really are and most of the time end-up by paying the high price of loosing them as such children will undoubt...