One side of the coin

THE EDITOR: “Love in the face of Racism” — Newsday 16/03/03. Oh what a lovely story — Boy meets girl and after overcoming daunting obstacles,  the couple marry and ride off into the sunset and live happily ever after — they should make a movie of this story.

However I find the advice offered by this lucky couple “that parents should not interfere in their children’s choices” to be one sided, ill advised and irrational. For every couple finding eternal love and happiness there are thousands of couples who ride off into the sunset get a bad case of sunburn and do not live happily ever after. Relationships are like the lottery — thousands put out their money but few win the first prize. If the lucky couple in the Newsday story had had a sad ending their advice would most likely have been “Listen to your parents, with their experienced eye they would see what you cannot see and trust them, they have your best welfare at heart.” I fear the advice of the lucky couple is going to mislead a lot of impressionable teenagers labouring under the counterfeit currency of adolescent infatuation.

JACK LEARMOND-CRIQUI
Diego Martin