This country does not allow you sufficient grief time for any one incident before you have to bundle your sorrows and repackage your anguish to treat with another. The pace at which issues sprint hustles our sensibility so that we do not benefit from deliberation and therefore remain, for the most part, devoid of insight.We are constantly caught up in news headlines where the underlying and indeed, undermining issues feature insufficiently to permit contemplation � though I suspect that cerebration on these weighty issues is relegated to the few rather than the whole.
Whether our unthinking existence, our incapacity to process, or the exhaustion from the constant weighing down of issues, we are rendered insensate.For many, nothing resonates lastingly to bend individual or collective determination to scrutiny of an issue, it's genesis, its growth, it's fruiting, and ripening, knowing well that the headlines are only revelations of something long gone wrong.So, in the midst of considerations for disciplining, particularly with April's Internet brouhaha of a teenager's flogging, I set about to examine the issue of discipline and punishment. But May brought more fire.
Generally, I try to avoid pronouncing on issues while their vortex is fuelled with pain, passion and indignation, and, in the case of Dana Seetahal SC, because of the awesome outpourings her demise elicited.But her sister, my friend, asked me to speak on the issue, saying, "Caroline, I appreciate what you said (to her). Would you write something about her (Dana) in your column? Coming from you I know it would be great." Without hesitation I answered in the affirmative.