As die lewe jou \u2019n tweede kans bied, gryp jy dit met albei hande aan, want jou tweede kans is dalk die laaste kans vir die res van jou lewe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ons almal kan seker onthou van \u2019n keer of kere uit ons verlede toe ons dit sommer goed opgeneuk het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die graad van erns oor die oortreding kan dalk van mens tot mens verskil, maar niks kan weggeneem word van die feit dat jy \u2019n oortreding begaan het nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek onthou een van my eie oortredings toe ek nog op kosskool was (donkiejare gelede . . .) \u2013 my einde-van-die-jaar- skelm partytjie saam met maters het in \u2019n fiasko ontaard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek het in die skoolhoof se kantoor ge\u00ebindig. My ma was by en moes die pleitwerk doen nadat ek uit die koshuis geskors is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAsseblief, Meneer, gee hom net nog een kans,\u201d het sy gesmeek. Ek is daardie kans gegun en het van toe af fyn in my spoor getrap. My pa weet tot vandag nog nie van hierdie voorval nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nog \u2019n paar voorvalle het oor my pad gekom. Ek kan met groot dankbaarheid terugkyk en die lesse daaruit geleer saamneem op my reis die toekoms in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Helaas \u2013 niemand van ons is perfek nie. Ons maak almal foute; elke dag. Vir party van ons is die oortreding of fout \u201cfataal\u201d van aard, en die gevolge daarvan kan jou vir \u2019n leeftyd agtervolg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek het onlangs so iemand ontmoet. Die vier hoeke van die gevangenis was die uiteinde van sy oortreding \u2013 vyf jaar tronkstraf en nog vyf jaar op parool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit was in sy tydperk aan die binnekant dat hy die werklike impak van sy oortredings besef het, en daarmee saam die keuse gemaak het om as \u2019n beter mens daaruit te stap. Hy het sy eerste tree na \u2019n tweede kans in die lewe gegee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die integrasie\u00adproses terug na die samelewing was nie maklik nie, maar uiteindelik is \u2019n lewenslyn in die vorm van \u2019n voltydse werk na hom uitgereik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In sy tyd in die gevangenis het hy sy foute uit die verlede, maar ook sy hoop vir die toekoms, in digvorm begin neerpen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit sou sy boodskap van vergifnis wees aan di\u00e9 wat hy skade aangedoen het. Dit sou sy kaartjie na ware vryheid en \u2019n verdiende tweede kans in die lewe word. Daardie droom van hom is byna verpletter toe \u2019n verwoestende brand alles in en rondom sy informele huisie vernietig het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Net die manuskrip met sy gedigte het die verswelgende vlamme oorleef. Dit was nog \u2019n teken. Sy storie van \u2019n tweede kans in die lewe moes ander se o\u00eb en ore bereik. Dit het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy boodskap van hoop het sedertdien in boekvorm verskyn. Die reis na vergifnis en heling kon begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ons moet erken dat nie elke oortreder daardie tweede kans in die lewe gegun word nie \u2013 veral nie diegene wie se paaie met die gereg gebots het nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Herintegrasie in die samelewing word hier \u2019n groot uitdaging, want watter werkgewer sal kans sien om iemand met \u2019n misdaadrekord nog \u2019n kans te gee om oor te begin?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Mens kan dit verstaan, maar tog laat dit die vraag ontstaan of ons nie juis daardie mense faal en hulle uiteindelik terugdryf na \u2019n bestaan wat bekend is en sodoende \u2019n verdoemende siklus in stand hou nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir di\u00e9 wat daardie tweede kans in die lewe op meriete verdien, is dit van noodsaaklike belang dat ons daardie kanse skep, want hoe dan anders? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soveel stigmas kleef aan iemand wat \u2019n fout begaan het. Al het hy of sy ten volle geboet vir sy of haar dade, is ons tog so geneig om steeds die aard en pynlike detail van die oortreding \u201caan die groot klok\u201d te hang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ja, party mense volhard in hul misdadige gedrag en verdien dus daarmee saam die gevolge van sodanige gedrag. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In party gevalle verdien so iemand werklikwaar \u2019n tweede kans om oor te begin. Diesulkes, glo ek, het \u2019n enorme bydrae om te lewer en kan bewys lewer dat die mooi en goed in elke mens opgesluit l\u00ea wat tot voordeel van ons samelewing ingespan kan word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dalk is jou oortreding nie so opsigtelik van aard nie en kan jy vir jare daarmee wegkom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek hoop vir jou onthalwe dit gaan jou nie uiteindelik ook deel maak van die statistieke in ons land nie en dat jy gou genoeg sal besef niemand van ons word gevrywaar van die einas in die lewe nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit laat my dink aan di\u00e9 woorde wat iemand eenmaal kwytgeraak het: Jy is nooit te sleg om goed te word nie, en nooit te goed om sleg te word nie. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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