through pain and agony

this morning, a student of the school from where i work was kidnapped. the poor student, or should i say rich, was forcibly abducted in front of the condominium where he lives which was just a very short walk from school.guns were fired during the incident leaving two security guards severely wounded. the incident left me pondering how much and what kind of agony the young student would go through because of the awful incident. i suddenly became moved and started to mull about the feeling of being kidnapped...in our society, it is common but very hard to accept that there our people willing to kill and traumatize others even small children just to satisfy their worldly caprices.. this same morning though, as i was walking home i saw my nephew strolling along with his little classmates. the situation was a lot different for he was way different from the student from where i work. he do not come from a wealthy family nor he didn't have the traces of a young chinese boy. seeing him though made me think a little peculiar for back during my days i was not accustomed going home on my own. i was either fetched by my relatives or took a ride along through what common pinoy students called as their"service". through my observation from both instances, iwas thinking, if the community was the microcosm of the nation then it only proves how dangerous can weakth be in a marginalized society like ours. nothing is new though, but perhaps it'll take us to realize that we shouldn't take these situations as normal and perhaps try to do something to work things out and together eradicate crime and the societal nuisances...unfortunately, filipinos are not responsible enough to realize all of this..and until that day comes kidnappings and other crimes will still remain as a usual content of our newspapers very much like a regular entree on a diner's menu.