Events happening around the world in the last two weeks have been extremely horrific in nature and deeply disturbing. The pain one human can inflict on another human both physically or verbally is excruciating.
Floyd told those racist police officers he was claustrophobic; he pleaded them that he wasn’t able to breathe. Even then he wasn’t spared. While the whole nation was erupting with mass protests, the leader of the nation was busy tweeting rhyming tweets “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.
And then there is 14-year-old Iranian girl who was killed by her own father with a farming sickle in the name of honor killing.
Police officers who are meant to protect us go around on a killing spree, families which are meant to protect their loved ones go on a killing spree. I just wish Post-covid the word “trust” would not become extinct.
Abuse, be it of any kind racial, physical, verbal, child abuse, elder abuse, women abuse, animal abuse, body shaming and anybody who causes it should be thrown behind the bars and punished strictly.
Has lockdown caused the wild beasts so far locked inside our brains to run loose? When I hear that the numbers of abuse cases across the world have increased and most of it in your own homes, a place that is supposed to be safe haven turns into the most unsafe and scariest place to survive, I can imagine the plight of such people, especially children and the elderly.
The virus is looking for a host to survive but it is interesting that the virus may also changes its course and mutate to a less deadlier form when it realizes that its killing the host even before it finds another healthy host for its descendants to survive. There is hope there that it will eventually stop. But we human beings offer no such hope, though gifted with sixth sense neither do we have the realisation of the harm we cause upon fellow humans verbally or physically nor do we realize that we need to coexist in harmony with fellow humans be it family or society.
Most of us would have studied about ecosystem and balance of nature while we were in school. There are four different types of ecosystem interactions mutualism, commensalism, competition and predation or parasitism. Often mankind has been compared to be parasitic in nature where our species benefit while destroying all other species and resources that coexist in the ecosystem. But we have proved ourselves no longer worth of even being called parasites because they at least stand united for their survival. All we do is harm our own species in the name of race, caste, creed, religion or pure selfishness. Do we know what this practice of destroying one’s own species is called? Its called cannibalism.
Mutualism is said to be the best interaction type among ecosystem interactions but most of us do not even understand the meaning of mutual interdependence or mutual coexistence. We want the benefits when offered but we are not ready to compromise or offer compassion in return. Often judgmental, immersed knee deep in false assumptions, neither do we respect fellow humans nor do we express gratitude for all the good things we are blessed in our lives.
How many of us even genuinely feel happy when someone we know has achieved something phenomenal in his or her life? How often do we support a friend who is going through a bad phase? How often do we ask our old parents or elders if they have eaten their meal for the day? How often do we stop and ask our neighbour how he/she has been doing? How often do we count the blessings we have in our lives instead of grumbling about all the negative aspects of our lives? How often have we paused and judged our own actions before we commit them?
What scares me the most is about the little lives we as mothers have brought into this world? The responsibility now lies on us to at least to see to that, the new saplings find their roots not in this debris of greed and violence.
Every morning there is only thing I wish for , is for the world to become a better place to live again and if there is even one thing I could do to contribute to this cause, I might have a good night’s sleep.
