W.Minh Tuan
These days, I often go for a walk in Thong Nhat Park, Hanoi. Here the air is less dusty, less stinky, less garbage than outside the streets of Hanoi.
Since the chairman of the city of Hanoi, Tran Sy Thanh, directed to break down the barriers outside Hanoi’s parks, so that people can enter freely in the parks, and to repair, upgrading and renovating Hanoi’s parks, the parks have more vitality, more joy, better serve the people, children, women, the elderly, the young,,,.
Young women go to disco, aerobics, old people go to waltz dance, meditate, children and young people play football, badminton, children and young people go to practice bicycles, and many people come to run, walk, rest,,,,.
Hanoians have become healthier thanks to the parks that open freely and break these fences.
Recalling more than 2 years of COVID prevention and control, if instead of forcing people to stay at home for social distancing in a wrong, stupid way, then instead, call on people to go to the street, go out to the park to exercise, have fun, communicate with each other and release stress, people will be healthier, more effective in preventing COVID, and fewer people had died.
Thanks to breaking the fences of the parks, criminals and drug addicts also do not have land to live in the parks as before. In the past, when Hanoi parks were still fenced, it was an ideal place for criminals, drug addicts to rest, hide, snoop and rob good people who missed entering the park.
More than 40 years of sealing Hanoi’s parks is more than 40 years of the golden age of criminals and drug addicts, because they suddenly have extremely ideal places such as high-walled closed-gate parks to protect. them, let them rest for free – because criminals never buy tickets to enter the park – so that they have a legal, spacious, cool, discreet, free place to live, discuss and talk business deals that no one can detect.
That simple truth, that simple obvious truth, but more than 40 years ago, the leaders of Hanoi realized, and now they have repaired and demolished a few fences so that people can enter the park freely.
But there are still fences that have not been removed, so those fences are still a place for people to urinate, defecate, throw garbage, encroach on the sidewalk for business,,,.
But going to the parks in Hanoi these days still see many things that are not good, such as bad garbage disposal, stealing fishing, and too polluted water causing many fish deaths.
When I walk in Thong Nhat Park, I always have to be careful not to step on shit, maybe dog shit, but sometimes I still step on dog shit.
Many children, playing with their parents in Thong Nhat Park, exclaimed, “Mom, it’s rotten”. The mother patiently said to the baby: “Yes, we will go out here to avoid rotten”.
And the most offensive image is people fishing blatantly in Thong Nhat Park, Truc Bac Park, West Lake Park,,,.
People drop fishing right where there is a sign saying “No fishing”.
The Hanoians are funny, and innocent, the thief fishers don’t care about those ungainly forbidden signs.
I noticed that the parks in Hanoi were all guarded, guards rode motorbikes around in the parks, but didn’t say anything to the thieves fishing.
And under the water in the lakes in the park, at the shore, are floating plastic waste, floating around the shores of the lake.
Those guards just need to bring the net rackets, go pick up trash in the lake, and the lakes in Hanoi will be clean immediately. But those guards don’t do that dirty job, but just like to ride motorbikes around in the park, and earn the salary of taxpayers, and then ride their motorbikes around.
Just like that.
Working as a park guard, walking around on motorbikes in the park, and then receiving a state salary, it’s also really nice.
I also want to be a park guard like those guys.
In parks, fish and birds, butterflies, flowers, and insects should be protected. Fishing to catch fishes, bird hunting, butterfly catching, bee catching, and usefull insects should be prohibited.
Try to imagine in the parks of Hanoi, under the lake are all kinds of fish swimming around, on the shore, on the tree are birds chirping, butterflies flying in the sky, good insects crawling, flying everywhere, fireflies flying at night, fireflies flickering with the stars in the sky,,,?
So how?
I don’t think there’s a need to arrest and deal with those fishing thieves, throwing stolen garbage, and letting dogs poop on the park grass.
Just remind them.
The guards instead of riding motorbikes around, please go and remind people to be self-disciplined, do not fish, do not throw garbage, do not let dogs defecate, clean up dog shit after dogs poop.
I think Hanoians will quickly learn how to behave in a cultured way, and will voluntarily carry out actions to protect nature and protect the environment better.
A gentle, cultured way of handling will help people also have a gentler and more cultured attitude.
Severe, rough handling will easily lead to an extreme reaction from the person being handled.
In Japan, there is a ban on smoking on the street, anyone who violates it will be fined 2000 yen – about 400,000 VND. But I’ve never seen anyone get fined. I only see groups of Volunteers which protect order on the street, they hold cigarette ashtrays, when they see someone smoking on the street, these volunteers immediately approached, politely said:
Yes, smoking is prohibited here. Please put this cigarette in this ashtray, so that we can take it away and dispose of it in a designated place.
Sometimes I see someone who smokes stubbornly, takes a few more puffs, and then puts the end of that cigarette butt in that ashtray.
But those Volunteers still stood patiently, did not get angry, did not speak loudly, just waiting for the other to put the cigarette butt in the ashtray, then those Volunteers said “Thank you” to the smoker.
There was no fine, no arrest, no tugging at all.
What are the leaders of Hanoi doing?
Just doing the job of directing the parks to remind those thief fishers in the parks, reminding those people to throw their garbage indiscriminately, reminding those people who keep dogs indiscriminately, but Hanoi leaders can’t do it, then what are the leaders of Hanoi doing?
Either I dream of a beautiful day, on a Saturday morning, or a certain Sunday, the leaders of Hanoi, instead of riding in a black car to go for visiting somewhere, let’s set an example for Hanoians.
Leaders of Hanoi should diligently hold a few plastic bags, walk on the sidewalk, pick up trash scattered around the Hanoi People’s Committee Building, on the edge of Hoan Kiem Lake, so that the people of Hanoi can learn and follow.
Huh? Is it possible?
Can the leaders of Hanoi city do that simple thing? I only ask you to model once a year for about 30 minutes, so that Hanoians can learn to do it, is that okay?
Surely Hanoians will thus be able to correct their bad personalities, to be more self-aware, to have a better sense of publicity, to be more polite, more elegant, to respect the law.
In order to teach the people, and educate the people better, the leader must first set a specific example, not just talk about it on forums.