Height of desperation
It is now six months into our stay in Houston, Texas. Previously, on another occasion, we lived here up to a maximum period of ten months. Of late, things are really getting worse not only in Bangladesh but perhaps throughout the world and Houston is no exception.
The other day it was reported on local television that a man took his life by driving his car on the wrong side of the road on beltway 8 hitting his car on a speeding truck coming from the opposite direction. However, the truck driver and his son survived the crash. Then another day, a Hispanic man in the Bay City area shot his four children and himself to death, critically injuring another child and his wife. The surviving child and the lady are reported to be recovering from the bullet shot wounds. These are the acts of utter frustration and desperation resulting from unemployment and unhappiness.
The above two are examples of incidentss happening every now and then even in this part of the world. Houston is dubbed as the Space City and is also known to be the fourth largest economy in the world; I do not know whether it is true or false. What I would like to emphasise that despite scientific innovation and discoveries i.e. cell phones, i-phones, i-pads, i-pods, life perhaps was better for all the human beings living in this world forty or fifty years ago, no matter how difficult or hard it was without the present day comforts of life.
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