Advertising is powerful. I’m sucked in by those commercials of hurt animals and starving children. It would be almost sadistic except for the fact I don’t enjoy them suffering, but I’m still attracted to it. I don’t think that is sadism because I want to take their pain away.
The thing that drives people like me is a vision for a better future. I know tomorrow can be better than today. I know it. But it takes the people of today to join with others and fight for it. We have to be the voice for those who cannot speak.
I chose this blog topic for that reason. Both criminals and the abused cannot speak. Scratch that, the criminals can throughout their legacies. They are saying, “Don’t follow my road. There are better ways to impact society.”
When people see criminals, they don’t pity them as they should. These people are the product of their childhood and their own mistakes. Yes, everyone is accountable for his or her actions. But people follow the beaten path. When that criminal’s beaten path set before him or her is crime, that’s what he or she will do.
We can learn through other’s mistakes. This is secondhand learning, and it is invaluable. We have to take the time to get to know those who have made mistakes today, so we can teach the generation that will rule tomorrow not to make the same ones.
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