Two Scenarios

Imagine yourself a film producer. One day, you are handed two screenplays to choose:

(1) A boy from a good family comes into bad neighborhood and is seduced to follow wayward living. He enjoys the wild, reckless, and adventurous so-called "freedom" for a while until he discovers that it all doesn't worth the love and affection he's got back home, so he turns away and returns to his family after learning his lesson.

(2) A boy from a good family comes into bad neighborhood, is seduced to follow wayward living, gets trapped in deep trouble, and gets killed without ever being able to return to the right path.

Which scenario would you prefer?

No doubt, you would choose the first one, as would any film producer in the world!
Nevertheless, my friends, that first scenario is nearly always found in fictions and not necessarily so in reality!
As a matter of fact, observing the situation of our days, the majority of young generation tend to fall into the second, tragic scenario!
Youths try to bite a taste of the forbidden fruit, thinking they can get away in the end, but the consequences of their recklessness overtake them before they can learn anything from it -- and they end up with their lives either cut off or shattered. There's no anti-climax of repentance, no resolution of second chance.
That's what we find in reality. Most of the time, there is no second chance as offered in the movies. The sand in the hourglass runs out way too fast.
That is real life.

But we also need to keep in mind that the fact we find so many cases of the second scenario out there also results from how frequent our children are exposed to the first scenario at home!
Parents, be careful what television is "teaching" our children!
TV or movie plots are fictions, delusive rather than instructing. We need to emphasize to our younglings from the early stage of childhood that the stories told through that tube is NOT REAL!
A youth these days is so prone to tell him/herself, "Ah, it's okay. I'll get away with it, just like the hero(ine) in the movie last night."
If we don't want our children to have this pattern of thought printed in their mind, we'd better start guiding them from now on in understanding fiction, filtering and selecting the stories they should and should not watch.
How many young lives are wasted out there on the streets, never returning home as living teens, bright and joyful as they should have been in their prime of life, just because we let the poison slip unnoticed from the crystal tube into the children's head?
Let's take extra caution in bringing up our kids. Don't let them believe "there is always a second chance" slogan offered by man-made stories. They probably won't survive that second chance!