Abnormals

Today I saw an article about a man who was caught with the body of a 2 year old child, stashed away in a suitcase ready to exchange him for promised wealth and fortune borne from the grip of poverty that had muffled his conscience and greed like overgrown weeds in the pasture of his soul. Desperation…pure desperation, and all for what?!

I can only think of the poor innocent child who probably strayed far from the watching reach of his parents -an older brother or sister perhaps. Or lured by promises of sweet treats by a stranger with a smile; or worse of, by the misplaced trust he had place in the familiar face of a neighbor. 

The heart of man is filled with evil, and this atrocity is but a tip of an iceberg of what calamities we are capable of committing. It seems a bit confounding to reason, how a man can take the life of another’s child, yet his are safe in bed; or throw a child up in the air to the sound of giggle, only to silence that same child forever like one blows off a candle…Sad!

Not sad…it’s infuriating! Very infuriating…like a rage of anger flows through my veins! For the poor child whose innocent life was cut short, a bright light snuffled, never to shine. For his family, whose sorrows would be forced to an end only too quickly, as they cannot mourn such a young child. For the community where this event has taken place, stigmatized and weary, suspicious of every neighbors’ intentions. Anger at our stupid society, where this type of occurrence has become so usual, that all we would do is shake our heads and feel some remorse, when only 5mins later we forget it ever happened.

Just wait and think, that little 2 year old could have been anybody…your brother, sister, child, niece, nephew, pupil…and most importantly, you!! YES! You! 

It’s no longer acceptable for us to feel sad and push aside these types of atrocities as “event of our times”! They are abnormalities and shouldn’t be allowed to become normal occurrences. And we have the power to change these things, in whatever little or seemingly insignificant way. We always have a choice to change things...make the right choice. (view story here)