Nowadays, teenagers are now engaging into different vices. These are smoking, drinking alcohol, taking prohibited drugs and involving the so called premarital sex. As what I've observed now, teenagers are no longer into schooling. Evidently, you can mostly find them at the bar and net cafe playing online games.
I am now in my fourth year in college life and I've never experienced these terrible things. And I'm proud to say that it is in the proper guidance accorded by my parents. However, we can't deny the fact that teenage life is the most crucial years we are facing on since lot of pressures,crisis and personal constraints may occur. But, what is the most beautiful thing of being a teenager is that ,when you are able to meet new people and befriend them.
Teenagers are easily influenced from the people that they surround with. Hence, its very normal for a teenager to find peers who they think they belong. However, it seems that teenagers now are losing their path and became delinquents.They are now into various forms of vices which can ruined their distinctive lives. Whose faults are to be blame with? Why did they turn out like this?
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| Teenage Vices |
Parents indeed play a primordial role in the development of their children. Hence, they are the one who will give them personal advice and teach them the morals in the society.Moreover, they are the important person who will show them comfort and guide them during in their dilemmas. But, let us face the current situation now. Parents are no longer guiding their children and tend to neglect their obligations. I must say that since parents are busy working earning for an income, their children on the hand are also busy doing prohibited things which are not suited and appropriate for their ages.
Parents should practice balancing their family and work. Try to look over your children if they are in school or not. Have at least a little conversation between you and your children how they are doing in school. Try also to observe them and ask who are their friends .
Parent's negligence can caused the existence of Teenage Vices. They should do something to divert their attention into stuffs that are worth living for.
Undeniably speaking, Philippines now is much prone to natural calamities such as flash floods, earthquakes, landslide and soil denudation which definitely rooted to massive destruction of properties and caused large number of casualties compared in the previous eras. Almost every year,multiple reports made indicated that Philippines is again experiencing these tragic calamities. Hence, Philippines is the most affected territories when the mother nature is taking its revenge from the malpractice exploitation of the natural resources.
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| Environmental Care |
Our country's environmental condition has now being deteriorated due to the excessive abuse by the people. Even air and water now is being polluted due to improper ways of garbage disposal. Throwing of garbage anywhere is being practiced now by the people not even bearing the consequence if they keep on doing it and much worst, they will take it as a habit. On the other hand, I must say that Illegal logging here in our country is very rampant and I even see it with my two naked eyes big trucks carrying large pile of logs. Do these people have a moral conscience or they are just blinded from the lust of money ? When will Filipinos learn caring and preserving our environment?
On the eve of December 16, 2011, Cagayan de Oro experienced a tragic typhoon signal number 2 which caught the eyes of the local and national televiewers as well also people from the other countries. I have never expected that the water level immediately rising up from the knees, then up to the hips and surprisingly, it even reached at the top of the houses. Our place was not that affected compared to our neighbors from the other barangay and I'm thankful of that but at the same time I pitied those who were affected. I was sleeping soundly at that time when the heavy rains poured. I was shocked when I woke up that many of my fellow kagay-anons were found dead and some were still missing. I didn't know what to say but just to sympathize those affected families.
On the following day amidst of the tragedy, I was forced to go to school since my NSTP students were waiting for me to have our Christmas Party. When we were already at the highway, I saw people who were crying, walking barefooted and the worst part, I saw dead bodies lying on the ground. I was speechless that time and it seems my heart was falling apart and about to cry.
When I already arrived at the school, the ambiance was very solemn because of the tragedy. Some were in group talking about the flashflood and some chose to be alone and thinking the safety of their loved ones.
This tragedy indeed gave us a hint that we should care and protect our environment. If we don't want to happen this again, we should start preserving our mother nature. We should throw our garbage from the thrash cans. We should not cut trees instead, we should plant more trees. We should do the 3R(Reuse, Reduce and Recycle). We should cooperate and help one another to clean every canals and drainage for it serve as a passageway of the running water.
However, this tragedy marks a difference of what Kagay- anons are. Even amidst of this traumatic event, Kagay-anons were still showing a sense of resiliency and continue moving forward. Let's practice "Environmental Care".
