
‘But my Mummy’s got cancer and my Daddy left me’ – so I can do whatever I want right? Hurt whomever I please – because I’ve got a reasonable excuse which allows me to get away with practically anything…
This is precisely the mindset of children today. Where once upon a time the kids of divorced parents would simply pull their heads in and get on with life – suddenly we’re expected to give unreasonable leeway to children facing the same adversity as all young people have faced for DECADES before them.
If you’re the type of delinquent creature to:
- approach a peer on the first day back at school, only to tell them to “fuck off”
- lock a peer outside of a classroom during class and then stand against the door with your low life accomplices so that the teacher can’t hear the child knocking on the other side of the door
Then you are nothing more than a cancer to society.
In the same way the cancer is cheating your mother out of her life – stealing her joy, robbing her of any quality of life – you are cheating your fellow peers out of their lives and out of their educations – you are stealing their futures – and yet you don’t have to be cancer. It’s your choice to be the way you are.
Everybody dies, nobody gets out of life alive, however, whilst waiting until the end, nobody has the right to be sucking the life out of anybody else for any reason – regardless of whether you feel sad about something devastating in your life! It doesn’t mean that you then get to be a cancerous monstrosity that poisons another persons existence here on earth.
You’re trying to take people’s futures away in exactly the same manner as cancer is threatening your mother.
Obviously, anyone with a terminal illness has the sympathy of those that encounter them which also extends to the people closest to them – sympathy however should not be mistaken for stupidity. It does not give you an automatic hall pass to bring harm to others.
I will never feel so sorry for you that I will simply tolerate the evil things that you do to anyone else – because everyone’s lives matter just as much as your own, just as much as the people that you love, the people that you’re worried about dying and the people that have left you longing for their love.
The sadness and trauma in your life does not exclude you from – at the very least – having to be a decent human being. I’m not suggesting that you’ve got to put any kind of effort into your life or that you have to make something of yourself – that you have to be educated or aspire to be anything special – basic human decency however is a must!
By locking someone out of the classroom and standing up against the door so that the teacher can’t hear the person on the other side of the door knocking in an attempt to get back in – you aren’t only stealing their education from them – surprisingly, you are unwittingly teaching them how valuable their time is, how important their education is and how they must fight every step of the way to gain as much precious knowledge as they can because knowledge is power – and you, just like cancer, are trying to steal power from others.
Leaving them locked outside that classroom only made their passion, their desire for learning even greater. As with anything in life – when you try to stop a person from achieving their goals, from being the best version of themselves that they can be, you somewhat have the opposite effect on them by igniting a fire in them that they themselves didn’t know that they had – and they will fight for what is rightfully theirs, no matter what challenges they are forced to face because their determination is pure of heart.
As human beings we all must come to terms with the fact that we are dying. With every breath that we take we are only getting closer to the end of our lives. As parents, it is an integral part of the role that we have taken on, that we guide our children towards goodness if nothing else, towards kindness above cowardice and on a personal note I can say wholeheartedly that if I were to want anything from my children during my end days, it would be the peace that comes from knowing that they would continue to be decent, successful and honourable human beings.
Allow your parents the opportunity to die in peace knowing that you will honour yourselves, respect yourselves as well as those around you.
Nobody likes cancer – and nobody on earth likes cancerous people like you – destructive, uncontrollable, evil creatures. But it’s never too late to turn your EXCUSES into REASONS for doing the right thing.

