If there is one thing that always pisses me off in people, including some of my friends, it's how they could sit and watch all manner of rubbish happen around them and refuse to do something about it.
How can you be so passive in the face of injustice? You could watch another human being being lynched and you would fold your arms and say, "It does not concern me".
And tomorrow you will have the guts to come out and say that you are a good person. You will walk around with a chip on your shoulder, passing judgment on those who dared to do something.
The people who witnessed the injustice that was being committed against Chinwe, the fifteen year old girl that was given out in marriage to a mentally impaired man in his fifties, and did not make any move to stop it are just as guilty as the people who planned the whole marriage.
They belong to the same class of evil as the perpetrators.
These passive watchers might never come to terms with the horror they partook in. Yes, they might live the rest of their lives believing that they didn't do anything, that they are not culpable of any offence.
But they are. They are guilty as charged. Their conscience is dirty and their mind is rotten.
I hope that, one day, they will wake up to see what they almost caused by not wanting any problems.
"I don't want any problems", the mantra of every person who came to this world just to exist and die.
If instead, they come to realise their mistakes, they should know that their future regret won't mean shit to Chinwe. She will have grown bigger and gone too far for their pleas to reach her.
And if they eventually realized their how terrible their indifference was, but Chinwe had already ended up with that man, what would their regret have done to change her circumstances? How would it have restored a stolen childhood and life?
Regret is cheap. It is absolutely useless.
Do you know what you have to do to avoid any form of regret?
SOMETHING. All you have to do is something. No matter how little. Even if it's just "I disagree", say it.
I do not believe in regret. You do not abandon a person in his or her time of need and claim you regret it years later. It's too easy. It's too cheap. It's too cowardly.
If you have to feel any kind of guilt towards anybody, let it be remorse.
It's better to cry over something you were brave enough to do, than to cry over something you were too much of a coward to do.
Who wan know, go know.
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