Solitary

What is something used in prisons? The shoe. More commonly referred to as Solitary Confinement. What is this room designed for? Well…the more…difficult of prisoners. For all you parents out there, this is the more strict version of a child being grounded.

When a prisoner, who is being impossible, gets thrown into a room for an unknown amount of time. A day, a week, a month…longer? In some cases, yes. The room is dark, and the only social interaction the prisoner gets is when the door’s latch opens up to receive food. Or so it shows in the media. Real life’s interpretation may be different, but the idea is the same.

Solitary Confinement deeply messes with the prisoner’s mind. It makes them go mad. In some cases, the prisoner’s develop PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. People need social interaction to stay sane, so why do they get such unusual punishment?

A prisoner that goes around stabbing other inmates repeatedly is probably unlikely to listen to anyone’s suggestion to stop stabbing the inmates. He’s in prison anyway, maybe he is serving a life sentence, so why does he have to listen to anyone’s suggestions? Because if he doesn’t, he’ll be thrown in the shoe, and if you ask me, a man’s sanity is incredibly important.

In reality, we are all serving a death penalty. The only sure thing in life is death.  This is true, it is the only thing we can truly expect to happen. It is the only thing we know is going to happen, so why should we have any repercussions of our actions? Well because if we don’t, we’ll be thrown into the shoe of our own making. Solitary.

If you are someone who gives disrespect to others, and don’t very much care about their well being, then they are sure to push you away into that solitary confinement. If you know what it takes to get out on good behavior, you should do it, and ignore your death penalty.  Otherwise you will be thrown into solitary confinement, and it will drive you absolutely bonkers.

If you ask me, prisoners should have the option to have solitary confinement as well as social interactions with others. If they are in that metal room with just a slit to open and talk to others. I don’t think anyone will be stabbed to death, and the prisoner gets to have his social interactions, but if that prisoner get so upset about his situation and takes advantage of it, spewing anger and hatred out his window of opportunity, then that window will shut, and it’s lights out, pal.

We can apply these analogies to real life.  A lot of times, we are so stuck at a place in our lives, and it is so incredibly easy to get upset at others, and often you never know what you had until you lost it. In some cases, things lost can be found again, but in other cases, if you keep losing your prized possession, your bound to lose it for good at some point.

The question you really want to ask yourself is…what would you do? Would you allow someone to keep being a danger to themselves and to others repeatedly, or would you throw them into solitary confinement, where they may end up getting PTSD? That is an incredibly hard choice to make, and we shouldn’t be the ones to enforce that. There is no right answer, they are both bad.  If it is a matter of protecting yourself, solitary confinement is probably the right choice for you.

If you have no choice, then you have no choice. In the end, you just have to remember that you gotta do what you gotta do. It’s all instinctual. If this is what you have to do to survive, don’t question it. Sometimes, we have incredibly difficult decisions like this, and you may have no other choice then to put someone in the shoe. I just hope none of you ever have to go through that.

Yes, this is all a metaphor of something going on in my life. Deal with it.

PEACE OUT.