I have done things which in my own consciousness are not good; and I wonder had it not been for some kind of fear then I would not have refrained from doing such a thing. The fear of being caught or exposed for one of these deeds. The fear of falling from the image of the ‘so-called-society’ as the ‘so-called-good’!
I wonder if I did not have this fear would I really care for anything or anybody?
Or is there really something ‘inherently not evil’ within me which would not let evil happen to anybody else or is this ‘inherent goodness’ synonymous to ‘the greatest fear of being subjected to something similar ,painful and misfortunate’!
So is it when we do not have any kind of fear on us and we feel secure,do we tend to become indifferent ?
So why are we indifferent?
I hear the news of this 16 year old girl being gang raped and set to fire and the news reflects on the national TV,it is when the teenager is no more.The FIR itself had been lodged when she had expired.
Like most of us,this is all I could bear to hear and felt pathetic,incapable with a frightened mind totally unaccepting such an incident trying to shun it off totally with one feeling in my mind that this should come to justice?
But what justice?The girl’s there nomore.
I am such a weakling that I fail to consider that girl to be my own sister or else I would be filled with despair,anger and vengeance and not just have my condolence for the bereaved family. I would perhaps loose my willingness to live till the culprits were devasted.But would that bring her back?Life would never be the same.
I like all other normal people chose to remain a passive spectator with my routine condolence at anything misfortunate. Because we cannot come out of our comfort zones.Because we all say that we alone can do nothing.Because we all instead of facing things upfront believe in staying in our comfort zones and pacify our frightened and guilty soul by routine discussions of what is going wrong.We are all indifferent.
Was there a way out,the girl of sixteen had been saved।Was there a way she had been conveyed timely the message by our sleeping society ….’We are all together.’!
Had the girl and her family received such warm gestures from we sleeping people may be she would have lived!
