London Riots 2011

When I watched the devastating images of the London riots my first reaction was of utter disbelief and confusing as I tried to get my head around what was happening, how could this happen but that confusion soon turned to anger that those kids felt they had the right to behave that way, that that behaviour was acceptable.

They think that society owed them a favour, that they were the victims, but society owed them nothing when they gave nothing in return. They wanted laptops and plasma TV's, they wanted new clothes and trainers, they wanted everything but were unwilling to work for it, to earn it. They demanded respect but hadn't the respect for other people, they wanted to be heard but wouldn't stop to listen and all we could do was sit back and watch as they destroyed our city.

I then began to feel sad that that was the society I lived in, those were kids with no compassion for other people and those kids had no moral compass whatsoever and parents that were not taking responsibility for their children's behaviour. It saddened me that that was what we had become.

I wondered though when did our country start to fall apart, when did people become so vile and disgusting, had it always been that way and i just didn't notice before, did we ever live in a civilized world, when did those kids become so violent and hateful.

I don't like being apart of that generation and I hope and pray that one day we can all live in a better world, we can all learn to love and respect eachother and be a more civilized nation. Amen

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