The playground vandalism 游樂場的破壞

I am writing to express my views on the playground vandalism near my housing estate. The housing estate where I live in in the New Territories has many excellent facilities. While most people treat them properly, there are some people destroy all these valuable public resources. The playground equipment is heavily damaged. Some facilities are burned and broken. The graffiti are completely covered all over the place. Some of the graffiti even includes bad language. It’s adversely influence the children safety and our precious public resources.

The reason of this vandalism is mainly related to the people who are out of boredom and the shortage of security. Nowadays, most teenagers like to spend their time through hanging out with friends. When they have nothing to play or any recreational activities, the playground may be targeted as an amusement for spending their time. Due to teenagers are now in the process of building self-worth and self-esteem, they will try to do something over in order to get the peer recognition. For instant, the teenagers pretend to be a leader through destroying the facilities. In these recent years, these selfish and irresponsible behaviors under the fabricating, exaggerating from social media, started becoming rationalized. That’s why the playground vandalism happens. Secondly, it is because of the shortage of security guards. If there is security guard checking the playground regularly, to deter any vandalism promptly, this phenomenon will not happen.

To solve the problem, establishing a youth centre and forming a management committee are the best ways to solve the problem. Since Teenagers are having more free time, their needs of recreational activity are relatively elevated. Therefore, if there’s any activity or place to let them spend their free time, they will naturally lose interest in the destruction of the park, so as to protect the playground’s facilities and relieve the serious vandalism efficaciously. Establishing a youth centre is the best way to let the teenagers getting the community involved and spends their free time. In the youth centre, it will be provided some sporting equipment, chess game for them to play. Also, the youth centre will organize some activities for teenagers to enrich their life and help them to build up self-esteem, responsibility and self-worth. Let them can get into the community involved in the future easily.

Second, it’s about the security. Due to the shortage of security guard, the teenagers can go to destroy the park whenever they want. Nobody cares about it and looks after the place. It’s conceivable that the vandalism will continuously happen if there isn't any security guard. In contrast, if there is a management committee to supervise the playground, patrol it regularly, teenagers will behave more appropriate if they know that someone is watching them, so as to protect our facilities.

The situation now needs urgent attention! The existing playground is broken and dangerous for young children to play in. It’s not just vandalism, is a danger bomb in the society! If the problem cannot be solved promptly, it will become a vicious cycle, fully threaten our children safety and our daily life. Therefore, I earnestly urge the relevant departments to face and solve this problem immediately, so as to protect our children and facilities.

Yours faithfully,

Chris Wong

親愛的編輯：

我寫信是為了表達我對附近的房地產(chǎn)破壞游樂場的意見。房地產(chǎn)位于新界我們住的地方，它有許多優(yōu)良的設(shè)施。雖然大多數(shù)人正確地對待他們，但還有一些人毀滅了所有這些寶貴的公共資源。游樂場設(shè)備嚴(yán)重受損。一些設(shè)備被燒斷。涂鴉完全覆蓋了所有的地方。一些涂鴉甚至包括臟話。它不利影響著孩子的安全和我們的寶貴的公共資源。

這種破壞的原因主要是出于無聊和且沒安全感的人。如今，大多數(shù)青少年喜歡把時間花在和朋友閑逛上。當(dāng)他們沒有任何娛樂活動時，游樂場上便可能是他們的一個娛樂花費的地方。由于青少年現(xiàn)在在構(gòu)建自我價值感和自尊的過程中，他們會嘗試做一些事情是為了得到同行的認(rèn)可。例如，青少年們假裝通過破壞的設(shè)施來表明自己是一個領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者。在最近這些年來，在制造這些自私和不負(fù)責(zé)任的行為下，從最初的社會媒體的夸大，現(xiàn)在開始變得合理化。這就是為什么游樂場會發(fā)生破壞的行為了。其次，這是因為保安人員的疏忽。如果保安定期檢查游樂場的話，及時阻止任何破壞的話，這種現(xiàn)象就不會發(fā)生。

為了解決這個問題，應(yīng)建立一個青年中心，形成一個管理委員會才是解決問題的最佳途徑。因為青少年有更多自由的時間，他們的娛樂活動的需求比較高。因此，如果有任何活動或地方讓他們度過他們的空閑時間，他們自然會失去在游樂場破壞的興趣，從而保護游樂場的設(shè)施和緩解嚴(yán)重破壞的有效性。建立一個青年中心是讓青少年獲得社區(qū)參與的最好方式，花費他們的空閑時間。在青年中心，它將提供一些運動器材，他們玩棋牌游戲。同時，青年中心會組織一些活動，為青少年豐富他們的生活，幫助他們建立自尊和自我價值感，責(zé)任。讓他們可以很容易地進入社區(qū)參與未來。

第二，它是安全的。由于安全防范不足，每當(dāng)他們想要，他們就可以去破壞游樂場，如果沒有人關(guān)心和照顧游樂場，如果沒有保安的話，這可以想象破壞將會繼續(xù)進行。如果有一個管理委員會來監(jiān)督游樂場，他們定期巡邏，青少年便會知道有人看著他們，以保護我們的設(shè)施。

現(xiàn)在的形勢迫切需要注意!現(xiàn)有的游樂場是破壞的，年輕的孩子玩耍很危險。這不只是破壞，是人類社會的一種危險的炸彈!如果問題不能及時解決，它將成為一個惡性循環(huán)，完全威脅我們的孩子們的安全和我們的日常生活。因此，我懇請相關(guān)部門立刻解決這個問題，以保護我們的孩子和設(shè)施。

你的忠實的，

黃凱芹