The grim reaper rides on 4 wheels

Hi everyone, this past weekend was a tragic one. We first got the young guy who passed away on Zallaq highway, a boy of 22 and somewhat a neighbor. Then we were hit with the news of the two young couple who passed away riding a 4 wheel bike in the desert. During the camping season my work gets shifted more towards the desert area of Bahrain so these horrible incidents are well within "our" jurisdiction as Southern Governorate.

I'm not much of an advice "giver", and I sure wont go through all the trouble of writing just to advice someone i don't know. But the terrible scenes I have witnessed this past weekend are something you just cannot forget all your life. I'm talking about horror movie stuff. Body bags and the like. But the thing that gets to me the most was how casual some people were, I mean, when people don't even blink upon hearing this kind of news and then have the nerves to start pointing fingers at the easiest targets, the sitting ducks, the "honorable government". I say to those individuals first go and pay your respects to the families of the deceased and help ease their pain in any way possible, then demand through your representatives in parliament and the municipal councils an official national investigation into these accidents and what steps should be taken to prevent further loss of loved ones.

Maybe it's becoming a cultural norm to just take a "non-action" stance and fire blame into all directions, but I still believe that there are individuals that I consider to be more culturally and intellectually evolved. I call upon those voices to start to be the ones loudest in Bahraini society. A perfect example is when hundreds upon hundreds gathered on the 4 wheel bike accident just to watch, as if someone played a movie for free. This reached such a ridiculous level that the traffic police actually called on the assistance of the riot police to disperse this rabble so that they can just reach the site of the accident and help those injured. How sad to have a society reach this low.

I demand CHANGE, as in the Obama campaign, but definitely not in government, i demand that society takes a good long look at itself. The only thing I'm afraid of is that when it does take a look at itself, society fails to notice anything wrong.