Incident 1:
In a heart-breaking incident, we have a poor tribal carrying his wife's dead body for 6 hours left to fend for himself, denying all humanitarian aid even by the person videographed and photographed and the collector says, 'he did not ask any help'.
Incident 2:
In another heart-breaking incident, we have Mr. Piotr Malachowski, a Polish discus thrower, who fought and won a medal in Rio Olympics the other day, auctions it to fund treatment for a three year old boy stuck with cancer rescuing the humanity and telling the world, that the "life's medal is much more worth than a medal of silver, bronze or gold."
I am not comparing the events for the sake of blogging. But this is our reality.
What is wrong with our system? Who is at fault? Who is right?
We speak and write about issues. But when it comes to respond to the reality, we become 'smart' with our 'smart-phones' capturing the 'crucial moments' and later justify our claims. When it becomes 'viral' we take pride in our 'shooting.'
Weeks ago when someone pulled off the skin of a dead animal, it was skinning their mothers, for the cow is their mother god. Weeks after, in the same vicinity when someone denied to dispose the carcass of a dead cow, it becomes a revolt against the 'division of labour' prescribed by the smrti and sruti. Has our culturation, encultured us? Has our education, educated us?
Speech is an art. Content of it is culture. One who rides the chariot is a King and the horses are his. He has the right to drive it anywhere, but not to the place where there is a real war, a war of poverty, illiteracy, differences, murk and what-else. Someone has rightly said, 'teach the man to catch fish and don't catch the fish and give.' True. I agree. But you don't get the fish the moment you throw the bait into the water. Person needs stamina, power, thinking, alertness and patience. Empower the person first with these. Then, even if you do not teach, no problem, the person will swim and catch.
They are so, not because they lack skills,
They are so, not because they lack personnel,
They are so, not because they lack talents,
They are so, not because they lack culture,
They are so, not because they lack thinking
They are so, not because they lack stamina
They are so, not because they lack power
But they are so, because they are not given opportunity
They are so, because we have made them so
They are so, because we have not shown our humanity
They are so, because we believed in 'having more' and not 'being more'
Fr. Raju Felix Crasta
1 comment:
Hi Felix Crasta. Very thought provoking blog. And informative too. Good
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