Greed: covetousness that shadows relationships
Monday, October 16, 2023 | 10 Views |
Two of them, a boy and a girl are still at high school. Our parents left so much inheritance that we could continue a living with but my brother is busy scattering it simply because he wants to always have money in his wallet.
Unfortunately, he has been unemployed ever since and now after tasting the death benefits we were awarded, he is more greedy and stupid at the same time. I deliberately call him stupid because he has no business mind that could potentially regenerate income for him but rather he spends it on women and alcohol. He has had more than P100, 000 that he has in his possession thus far, but he still sleeps on the same bed our parents bought for him while he was studying at the university in Zimbabwe.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...