A pity kid seeing his mother jumping down from a flat

The 14-storey flats at Jalan Tun Dr. Ismail in Seremban is famous not for any good reason but a popular place for committing suicide. Yesterday, there was another such case, making it into 4 suicide cases in 2010. A mother jumped from the 13th floor in front of her 10-year old son and I wonder how cruel the mother was, leaving behind her son, letting the small boy be haunted by the traumatic scene for the rest of his life.

We have heard that gambling destroy many families and very sad that it always happened on the lower income groups and these people could have borrowed a lot of money from the Along which they could not pay back and thus have to encounter harassments from the loan sharks. Why are there so many illegal loan sharks around? In my small housing estate, you see many banners erecting one after another offering the so-called lucrative and tempting loans, these banners are all put up by the illegal loan sharks and sadly no actions were being taken by the authority as the banners are mushrooming almost everywhere.

The world that we live nowsaday has evolved into a materialistic world as compared to sixties or seventies. Temptations are everywhere and in all sorts of forms. For those ordinary wage earners or self-employs, the only available way to get rich is to win a lottery. Don’t you agree? Even if one day you discover that there is petroleum beneath the house that you stay, it is not going to bring you any good fortune, the petroleum belongs to the government.

Hence, all sorts of gambling, 4-digits, lottery and casinos whether legal or illegal, can easily find thousands and thousands of supporters. Even the investment in share markets also contain with it some elements of gambling, if not, all the share buyers will be making money and laughing all the way to the bank and we would not have heard so much about people losing all their saving through speculation on share markets.

As a 4-digits frequent buyer, I must say that it is the greed of a person that will land him or her in deep trouble rather than gambling per se. When greed is beyond control, it can develop into addiction that can destroy common sense and righteousness. Remember the brutal murder of the millionaire lady in Banting? You can see how a person’s greed can result in 4 innocent people were murdered senselessly.

I’m rather pity on the 10-year old boy that has surely been traumatized by her mother jumping from the 13th Floor of a flat in Seremban, in front of his own eyes. As the mother ended her own life, she also took away a normal life of her own child.