BREATHE

There’s a saying that goes “everyone deserves a second chance”. Really? Does everyone deserve a second chance? Where do we draw the line? Here are five quickly thought up scenarios, let me know what you think :)

1. 30 year old drug smuggler gets sentenced to death. He’s remorseful and now a religious man but the drugs he’s been smuggling have indirectly killed many teenagers who have consumed them.
2. A father is caught with a mistress who he’s been dating for two years. Children are devastated upon hearing the news. He begs his wife to forgive him and promises to end it with the mistress.
3. Father has physically and verbually abused daughter all her growing up years. She’s now 18 and wants to move out. Father has cancer, is dying and needs home aide. He’s apologetic, would like daughter not to move out, look after him and use this chance to make up for the past 18 years.
4. BF cheats on GF and gets caught by GF. This is the first time he’s cheated (can also be the other way around).
5. BF lies to GF. This isn’t the first time.

Here’s what I think/would do.

1. Life in prison, drug rehabilitation as well as chance to work with young people, explaining to them the harmfulness of drugs.
2. Wife and him should go for marriage counselling and try to work things out for the sake of the vow that they took and as well as for their children.
3. Forgive. Blood is always thicker than water and he’s your father at the end of the day.
4. Most definitely end it. But we’ll see again if that happens *touchwood*
5. End it.