A YOUNG LADY’S CRY
She sat by the side of the gutter in shock. Shalewa did not believe her life. It was like a case of hit and run for her. Never in all her sixteen years had she ever thought she would be in such a position. Pregnant! What, where would she start? People had started to stare. No, she would not give them the relief of watching her get up from her crouched position by the gutter. She just wanted to be left alone. She very well felt like flinging herself from the top of the third mainland bridge. At least all people would do was say too bad, such a young, vivacious, nice, obedient and courteous girl. What a waste of a good life. She could imagine the derisive look people would give her mother in the market where she had a stall. Such a shame! What a shame for a young unmarried girl like her to have a bang belly. There was no one for the young woman to turn to. No options at all. An abortion was out of the question. Too expensive, too painful. The father of the baby was not an option, a secondary school student like her, could not even zip his breeches, not to talk of handling the responsibilities of a helpless child. He had freaked out when she had told him, started stammering, stuttering, and gesticulating. She had never felt so guilty of destroying a person’s life before. The first thing to do was get up from her position by the gutter, stop crying before someone who knew her mother saw her and tattled.
There are so many girls so like Shalewa in our society today. It is a case of hit and run for some of them, for a lot of them the carelessness of having unprotected sex, the lack of education and the decadence of irresponsibility that is slowly eating up our society. Sex is being sold, introduced and accepted by young people everywhere. The act of the doing without any thought of the responsibility that comes up should anything go wrong is not being considered. Young girls are left with the burden of unwanted pregnancies because they have made the decision not to kill that which they have conceived within their wombs. Even though sometimes their parents make the decision, the girls carry the brunt of the action. They are left bereft of happiness and filled with regret and what ifs? What if the act was different? What if they had never done it at all? Is there anything that can be done to ease the pain or the disappointment their parents feel when they realize that their precious little girls are actually going to have little girls of their own. The fact that there are more young girls in our society with teenage or unwanted pregnancies does not seem to register with the individuals living in this society. There needs to be awareness, a solution somewhere, a hope for the girls caught in such a situation, a situation that could very well solved. Is abrtion the answer? Could it be an answer for you? Imagine being in a situation with an unwanted child, what would be the way forward? Have the child an give “it” away? Or just kill it? Sorry, excuse me, get rid of it? Im not making a political statement as pro choice or anything, just blabbing, running my mouth as usual, but think for a second, would ya?