How your irresponsibility caused an accident.

Write a story about how your irresponsibility caused an accident.

1. Describe how your little brother decided to pick some flowers for your mother for Mother’s Day.
2. Describe how you were irresponsible by not taking good care of your little brother because you were engrossed chatting on the phone.
3. Describe how your brother met with an accident.
4. Describe how you felt.

Mother’s Day was approaching. My elder brother, Gopal, and I were busy planning to get a surprise gift for Mother. My little six-year-old brother, Raiju, had no money to contribute, so he had to think of something else to give her.

Raju decided to pick a bunch of flowers for Mother. He asked me to take him to the park across the road to get the flowers. Gopal and our parents were not in, so I was put in charge of Raju. However, I was busy having a nice chat with my friend on the phone, and did not want to be disturbed, I waved Raju away, and told him to go on his own. Obediently, Raju set off alone with a big empty basket.

When I finally put down the phone, it was already five o’clock. It was then that I realized, with horror, that Raju was not back. He had been gone for almost four hours! Why, he would have picked all the flowers in the park in that time!

I immediately left the house and hurried off in search of Raju in the park. I finally found his basket, half-filled with flowers, under a rambutan tree in one of the quieter spots in the park. A scared voice came down to me from the tree. I looked up and saw Raju hanging precariously from a tree branch. His face was pale and his voice, choking with a mixture of fright and relief, came down a gain, “Sita, help! I wanted to get rambutans for Mother, but I dare not climb down now”.

Before I could climb up to get him, he lost his grip on the branch and fell sprawling to the grass below. Things happened in a blur after that. A couple who happened to walk past at that time came to my aid. Soon, Raju was warded in the hospital. He had fractured his arm and had to wear a cast on that arm for a month.

I was overwhelmed with remorse. Had I been more responsible and taken Raju to the park, I would never have allowed him to climb the rambutan tree. Then, the accident would never have happened. I realized then what a seemingly harmless little act of irresponsibility could lead to.

Causes of teenage smoking

CAUSES OF TEENAGE SMOKING

A thirteen-year-old boy, standing in the doorway of his school, puffs on a cigarette. He holds it carelessly, like an adult, yet in plain view. He looks around to make sure that the other guys are watching. If you ask how he has smoked, you will find out that he started when he was eleven. By now, he is an addicted smoker. If you ask him why he smokes, he will probably say he enjoys it. Then you wonder if that is really the reason. But the harsh reality is that he, altogether with many other adolescents, is among those who contribute to a growing number of smokers in society nowadays. It seems to me the causes for teenage smoking are more complex. More specifically, the have more to do with the ambiguous role of teenagers in society. Teenage smoking is driven by personal insecurity, a desire to be like adults and peer pressure.

The foremost cause of teenage smoking is the insecurity young people often feel. They are at redefining and difficult age. They are no longer children, and hence the ways in which they have behaved in the past are inappropriate. On the other hand, they are not yet adults; still, they do not know the ways of the adult world. This conflict can end up in feelings of insecurity. For one thing, if children want attention from their parents or a toy or sweet, they can cry to draw attention to their desires. For teenagers, however, crying will be labeled childish and they will be told to “act their age.” More often than not, the teenager does not know how to act his or her age. Since teenagers do not know what to do, they ultimately turn to smoking as a way to hide their nervousness and insecurities. This seems to be the most fundamental culprit of by what drive teenagers come to cigarette consumption.

As we have just seen anyhow, teenagers need to learn how to behave as adults. They of course realize this and spend time emulating the grown-ups. Thus they attempt to adopt more adult attitudes and manners. They also pay attention to their dress and the opposite sex. One thing which youngsters perceive as “very adult” is smoking cigarettes. Perhaps a boy sees his father or older brother smokes. He thinks of his father as a man and therefore he wants to be “a man” like his father, treacherously expediting him to smoke, beginning a habit that most adults know is unhealthy.

While it is true that teenagers are attempting to become adults, this effort is often not fully conscious and they view the adults closest to them, their parents and teachers, as enemies. With that in mind, they turn to their peer group for support. We are all familiar with the teenagers who want to look, act, and dress exactly like all of the other teenagers. This peer group conformity can exert such an extreme pressure that often teenagers do things in the group that they would not normally do. One of these things is smoking cigarettes. Imagine a group of guys playing pool together after school. One says to the others, “I’m going to buy a pack of cigarettes. Do you want to smoke with me?” The peer pressure here is so great that most normal boys will fail to resist and succumb.

The outrageous backlash versus cigarette peaks when publicity learns how devastating smoking is upon their younger generations. Anti-tobacco activists constantly launch educational campaigns to teach students in their early age the undesired and unhealthy impacts of smoking and try to minimize the number of young smokers at best. Actively concerned parents likewise urge lawmakers to ban promotional items as well as TV broadcasts from the tobacco companies in an intense effort to keep cigarette advertising, which is quite popular among teens, away from their offspring. Though encountering such severe opposition, the industry argues that the blame should be laid at the feet of advertisers whose goal is to lure more adolescent consumers of this toxic chemical.

We can see that personal insecurity, desire to be like adults, and peer pressure can cause many teenagers to commence something which they may later regret. It is really unfortunate that cigarette smoking, particularly when started at an early age, is so addictive regardless of afterward relief effort.

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