BY: AKMAL AZIZ

You may have come across these individuals in the course of your everyday life, people who are misguided and clueless about what life is all about and do not know if they are coming or going, and in need of someone to steer them in the right direction.

While there are a growing number of these misguided individuals it probably stems from the feeling that life itself is meaningless and these people just go through the motions of life from sunrise to sunset in a mechanical, unfeeling, numb way.

Their senses are numb. The five senses each person possesses which are touch, smell, sight, sound and taste are numb or do not respond to the vagaries of life as it should and therefore such people need guidance and affirmation to come back to life.

It is not enough to be guided, advised and supervised, as these persons might also need to come under the supervision of mercy until they regain their bearings in life and are able to stride forward powerfully in a certain direction.

Once misguided people are set on the liberated path to grow, develop and mature in life, for the rest of their lives they would value the assistance rendered to them and would not misplace the gratitude they have for coming out of darkness into the light.

It is suggested that the next time any of us meets a lost, despairing individual, there is a need to steer them in the right direction, or if it is beyond our ability, to direct them to those who major in helping such individuals.

-THE MALAYSIA VOICE

** The views expressed on this opinion is of the writer and not the publisher