I wrote this about a week ago but never did anything with it, however i feel i should at least place it somewhere so here it is..
Humans. We are clever things and its almost amazing the things we can actually do but sometimes I can’t help but think we were given too much power. Too many skills we then abuse. We abuse our own intelligence by making wrong decisions. Some are only little, which we can correct so easily, almost without thinking however sometimes we make a decision so quick it was too quick for us to even think about it. A spilt second can change so much just like that and then that’s it, its done. Life isn’t like movies we cant go back in time or wish for something to go back to the way it was. Otherwise us human beings would never learn, would never evolve.
Sunday the 6th of November 2011 at 1:30am a life was taken. Not by accident, not by fate, not even by illness and although those are awful things to happen, having to say someone was murdered seems to send chills down my spine every time I think of it. Billy Dove was murdered for no reason, for stopping a fight, for being a nice human being, for making a GOOD decision. However someone decided they would make the WRONG decision in return and stabbed the innocent man, taking his life. That someone ruined so many lives that early morning. Not only did he take Billy’s life away he also took his families and friends away too. How selfish and small-minded does someone have to be to do that? Have we learnt nothing over the years we have been on this planet? Have we not evolved at all? Or is it just the lucky few like Billy who have a heart and a soul, who put themselves in danger to help others?
I tried so many times to get my head around what happened to Billy. So many times I thought, maybe everyone on facebook has got it wrong, maybe he is in hospital and just badly hurt. I didn’t know him that well and unfortunately I only got to speak to him once but from that experience I knew he was a cheeky, happy, friendly person and I only had a brief encounter with him. I can’t imagine how his family and friends are feeling right now. It wasn’t like he just died, which as I said, would have been awful. He was taken. Almost stolen. It wasn’t his time to go yet someone thought they had the right, they had the power to decide.
Knife crime isn’t anything new, nor is it something people in hemel didn’t know about. It was just something we couldn’t imagine happening in such an awful way to such an innocent person who was so young. I’m fed up of these so called ‘gangsters’ who can barely string a proper sentence together going around thinking they are, as they put it, ‘IT’. Well I do not think they are ‘IT’ and I would never want to be a part of their stupid, low life gang. We shouldn’t have to be scared to walk around our own streets and scared to say how we feel in case we get stabbed or beaten up so badly we can barely breathe. I will NOT let them scare me or make me feel intimated. They may think they have power if they are carrying a knife but that’s because they aren’t fighting fair. What would happen if the other person had a knife? What if we put these awful people in the middle of Afghanistan? Would they be ready the fight then? I don’t think so.
I think its time we all realise the world is a very tough place, full of very cruel, selfish people. However please we can’t get down on this fact because the real truth is there is always a balance and wherever there is evil there is always good. Billy was the good and so are all the wonderful people making lovely tributes to his life and all the people who have laid down flowers and pictures etc. People have really come together and it just shows that when needed good always shines through. If there is people like this around evil doesn’t stand another chance and neither should it. We are all better than these pieces of dirt. We are better because we care. When it really comes down to it we care about people even if we didn’t know them that well. We know right from wrong.
Lets remember Billy Dove for the good that he has bought into so many people’s lives. Lets not remember him for how he died but for how he lived.
Rest In Peace Billy Dove xxx
