THE EYE OPENER

I am a very sensitive person. My sensitivity reaches its peak whenever I hear a confrontation involving kids, or rather when they cry. I was busily munching my hum bugger in my house when I suddenly heard a kid crying outside. I mean within the confines of the estate I called home. My curiosity could not give me even just a second. So I decided to go and check what could be the matter with this kid, having rarely heard a cry in the ever quiet estate.

The kid was crying so hysterically that I felt a lot of pity for him. Besides him was a beautiful lady who I took for being a mother. Another kid with bushy hair was also standing nearby and seemed to be mocking the other one. I mistook them for being siblings or very close friends and the lady to be their mother. I just assumed she was trying to solve the problem her sons were having, so I just went back to my house and continued with the activity I had been doing earlier, munching you know what. Apparently what I had assumed earlier was not the case as I later came to find out. I was completely wrong.

The kid that was crying belonged to another race while the other one was also from a different one. Apparently the one crying hard hit the other ones ball so hard that it had gotten a puncture. You will have to blame the spiky thorns on the fence for this one. It was just a simple mistake if you asked me.So the kid called his sweet mother for intervention, in this case I mean the other kid who was the owner of the ball. His mother could not even think twice. She gave the poor kid a resounding slap that almost ripped his ears off. She went farther to warn him that he never wanted to see his dirty face near his son again because they were very different. Surely this was just a kid and he never understood what ethnicity meant. Simply because he was from a different region did not qualify him to be treated that way, at least not from a mother who had gone to school.

I couldn’t sleep that night, peacefully I mean. I could not expect such a thing to be happening in this century where everybody is quite literate. These are stories that one would only wish to experience in a dream, not even in a movie. But it was happening. This world would be so peaceful when we stopped looking down upon other people simply because they do not belong to our race or ethnic background. Knowing someone to be of equal value to you would solve so much of this vice. Serving a person without bothering to know where he comes from would surely be the greatest achievement we could have.

You will all agree with me now that ethnicity is a bad disease. A curse that needs to be reversed. Because it denies us so much. Those with a bit of experience know what I am talking about. Eliminating this thing really begins with you. Stop despising other people for no reason. And that would be the real change that the world has so much been looking for.