Teens Talk - There's Electricity in the Water

By Marcel Gamble
The Grand Rapids Times
June 6, 2008

Everyone should know that the collaboration of water and electricity only leads to danger.

My question is that if a number of people are already informed of what the outcome of electricity and water is, why do individuals continue to mix the two?

Why do people continue to instigate drama when they know, eventually drama will lead to someone’s death?

My peers, tell me why so many of us are encouraging others to inflict pain upon are Brother & Sister when they are in arguments? Do we not know that we are mixing electricity with water?

Some of us need some serious smack right.

Electricity in water this month alone has caused death amongst teens due to arguments that could have easily been settled.

It is time to leave electricity out of water and stand up to be leaders not followers. It amazes me how some of us get amused by the loss of other teens. Why are we mixing electricity with water?

All of us, including myself, we all need some serious smack right.

Yes, so many of us want the mixture of electricity and water to end but to be truthful sometimes we just shrug our shoulders and say what a shame. If we allow violence and ridiculous slayings to happen then we are not standing up and fighting against those few individuals that are tearing our society apart.

There are ways to help put an end to electricity in water just by voicing your opinion diplomatically. You can stand up and fight without getting involved in the conflict.

Many of us have friends and family members, who are involved in gang violence, and it hurts to lose them. Education needs to start at home.

If we reach out to our loved ones there will be no more electricity in water. Some of my peers just need a stable caring mentor in their life to make better choices. You can be that mentor, I am that mentor.

Wisdom and guidance can come from you! Start at home. I know that I am starting with my younger brothers and sisters. Your parents are really clueless to what’s happening in the streets or at school. But you aren’t.

Stop and make a stand to be determined to not let the streets electrocute your siblings.

I’m going to leave you all with this, Numbers 1:16 “These were the men appointed from the community, the leaders of their ancestral tribes. They were the heads of the clans of Israel.”

When God appoints us to be leaders, He expects us to lead.