Prevention

pre·ven·tion
noun
the action of stopping something from happening or arising.

Prevention is an interesting concept. It can be used to stop both good and bad things from happening. It can be used to halt someone from creating a grave error, or halt something good from going forward.

It seems that life is full of “preventing” things. There are many organizations, for example, that promote alcohol prevention, suicide prevention, disease prevention, and much more. We find it to be a sort of moral duty to prevent something bad from happening, especially if we know that it will happen beforehand. Even in the old Superman movie, Superman keeps reversing the Earth’s rotation to try and save Lois Lane from dying. He feels it to be his moral duty to save her from this terrible fate. I think it is good for us to prevent negative or detrimental things like alcohol abuse, suicide, etc, and am comforted knowing that most people find it to be a top priority to take action to stop things like that.

On the other hand, many people feel restricted in life because of people, instances, etc. preventing them from reaching their goals and achieving their dreams. No one supports those types of people who prohibit someone from doing something good. But it is a real thing in this life: there will be instances that prevent you from doing what you want.

“Prevention” is just an interesting concept to think about.