Just Another Year

Disgust, indignation, and strong aversion of antipathy, crept in to the very depth of my soul as I continued watching the CNN news broadcasting about acid throwing victims concentrated mainly in India. The attractive, upwardly mobile woman whom once resided in Bangalore, India with everything going in her track until 1999, when she turned her former boss' marriage proposal down. And as soughting revenge, he poured 2 litres of concentrated hydrochloric acid over her body.

Mere 19 year old, Haseena Hussain has since then joined the Campaign and Struggle Against Acid Attacks on Women (CSAAAW) to fight the surge of acid violence against women. In this 21st Century, women are STILL the center to "sought revenge" on to. Could ego have so much of weight hence, revenge is the only way to defend a man's dignity? How low can we humans go?

In Northern Ireland, schools are segregated based on denominations of the Christian faith. And after centuries of conflict amongst the Christians, only now has it come to the senses of the Anglican Archbishop of a possibility of having Catholic-Anglican schools together as one. Thus, it continues. The basic fight of unity amongst people originating from the same faith. Isn't it enough of the immense fights that take place amongst different faiths already?

PETA has yet to kick some consideration of humanity into Canadians as their campaign to end the Canadian Seal Slaughter that take place during the Vancouver Olympic Games annually. The very addiction to an overall demand of fur is the only thing that keeps these fur trade industries do what they are absolutely passionate about - clubbing baby seals, beating dogs to death for their meat, make great white sharks die a slow death for their fins, and skin crocs alive. This overrated price of feeding greed is paid by the seals being hooked in the eye, cheek or mouth, alive. And why specifically these 3 spots? Because, if they would kill these seals in a more humane way, their fur would be damaged. Which would then result in a lower quality of skin-made coat, thus affecting commercially.

The suffering and atrocity of this act does not end there. These seals, half alive, are then dragged across the ice. Their blood smearing all along the way. The thought of actually just scarring your wrist would create nightmares. What about being maliciously dragged on thick, dry, cold ice, bleeding all the way through? These seals would not have even had their first solid meal or first swim before they are slaughtered for their skin.

On another page, nowadays, the basic importance of the life of a human being is decreased to a level where there is a choice to actually end it now, instead of waiting for death to desecrate us. So much so, whatever choice made by an individual, how immensely ridiculous it may seem, it still is a preferance to result to than enjoying the opportunity of life given to us in a silver plater.

Kevil Neil Whitrick left behind his twins and loving wife when he was inspired to suicide and actually did so in front of his webcam in Justin.TV. It was the "insult" chatroom where people "have a go at each other". He punched a hole in his ceiling and tied a rope around a joist and around himself and then stepped out off a chair. As it was a live show, some viewers thought it was a prank, until his face started turning blue. Some of them in the chatroom egged him on while others desperately tried to find his address. A sensible member in the room contacted the police but they were too late. He was pronounced dead at 11.15 pm. He was found hanging in his room, with a pale blue face, simply, dead.
 
My Angel could not decipher the catastrophy that was taking place in Korea when she sighed and said, "Same people, from the same country. How can they still fight knowing that they belong from the same place?" Tensions flared in crossfire between North and South Korea on January 27 2010 during the fight talk contest. I did not know how to decipher to this 52 year old civilian that times have now changed. Things are not the same as it was 10 years ago. People of our species are more segregated with the elite groups thinking that they have the world in their hands while the not so well-to-do groups are of the opinion that they represent the minority of the society and have no space to voice out.

But, the fact is that these elite groups consist only 30% of the population or lesser. The remaining revolve from the well-to-do and below. Not only does money separate the people but, the hold on to an ancient 1950 history of war brings nothing but more misunderstanding. There is still room for a restart. For a revolution to start anew and abolish segregation of the society originating from the same coutry, same race, same people. Cut yourselves if you do not believe me. How different is the colour of your blood from your neighbour? As Mary Bonauto states : All citizens are born free and equal, thus subject to equality all around.

Ignorance has crept and divulged into the very depth of our souls, overcoming every other sensible reactions or emotions of humanity, which when adhered to seems more reasonable. This discrepancy, led as many as 20 people, to stand watching a group of young men rape a 15 year old outside a California high school after the 2009 homecoming dance on a Saturday night. Would anyone in their right state of mind actually stand and watch a beast rampaging a child on the streets? The story is a whole different view if the victim was a relation to any of the bystanders.

Ask yourselves this, if you were human in any - ANY sense of the word, would you just overlook a rape when your loved one is the victim? This case is the perfect example of us people at the end of the day - whom we choose to represent amongst the society. The people who exercised their responsibility as citizens of justice and dialled 911 in time to save the life of this innocent child, or are we mere spectators of the very indignation of remaining morals that base the foundation of our growth for the future generation?
 
With the very inferiority of women's dignity, fights erupting amongst people from the one strong religion of peace and love, animal abuse on the rise, the lives of men laying in their own hands where their time of death is carved by themselves, people of the same country creating a border between themselves, separating mothers from their sons and brothers from their sisters for years, to the point of turning a blind eye to a crime. 2010 is just another year where negative element of human beings are embraced, burying the very essence of humanity.

It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals - Felix Frankfurter