You may think this is going to be a nice descriptive post,but you should know upfront that it is not. It's just my thoughts on recent events that have taken place around my neighbourhood.
It may be just a coincidence but the last ten days or so can be described by just one word;death. It all started when someone who went hunting or something(weird indeed) decided it was actually a really good idea to just leave parts of the animal(intestines and stuff) on the street. Why would anyone leave that on the damn street?! First of all,it's disgusting. But even more than that, it is murder,and whoever did that,shouldn't be that proud of it. [Well now that I re-read this,I think I have already said that again on another post,having to do with my recent views on being a vegetarian,but in order to keep my thoughts coherent on this one,I don't think I should remove it afterall.]
Just a few days later,there was a dead pigeon on the street. I'm not going to blabber about driving carefully and stuff,but whoever you are,so you'd better be careful,because killing by accident doesn't show anything good about yourself. And yes pigeons can be stupid,and I don't particularly like them,but I wouldn't kill them either. And parts of a spine(there's definitely something wrong with this sentence-seriously wtf). Supposing it comes from an animal(I watch too many movies,but I don't think I'd really enjoy it to live on Fleet Street next to Sweeney#2),why would a lovely housewife be throwing bloody bones out of her window? It just makes no sense.
So yeah,today there was a dead cat. A dead cat. I don't think it was killed by someone, I mean there was no blood or anything. Perhaps it ate something spoilt from the piles of rubbish(in case you didn't know they are on a strike again and the whole city has turned into a rubbish dump-but then,if you're not from Greece how would you know...),yet I find the view of any dead animal,especially that of a dead cat,rather unpleasant and I felt so bad that nobody cared about it,nobody turned to look at it and think "oh,poor cat,you died all alone,but i want you to know that I've loved you even though I don't even remotely know you".
My neighbourhood disappoints me. People in general disappoint me. Well,just their mentality really. Do we even deserve to be considered as humans anymore?
You know, humans are animals that get used to things. Easily. 40.000 children die every day. Millions of trees. Billions of animals. Not mentioning the insects and the rest, heh? If humans weeped for every death on this world, they'd commit suicide sooner or later, because of the overhelming sorrow... The only solution is to get used to things like that... Do you still believe that humanity is to blame, when reality itself is so... cruel? And... Im sorry to inform you that its not about your neighbourhood. Blood and death are splattered all around the world. All you can do is to close your eyes and embrace it, as they did.
ReplyDeletei agree with you on the whole cruelty thing,people dying and, well, on everything you just mentioned, but, you see, it hasn't always been that way around here.i didn't have to face it on my everyday life.
ReplyDeletei don't agree however on just getting used to it. we can't just ignore what's going around us, otherwise we 're as guilty as those who caused it. and that's not enough. it's kind of our responsibility to find a way to face this, for a more "humane" and ethic society, for fuck's sake.
plus,i was not talking about people here, but i can assure you,in a couple of months we'll be probably finding dead bodies around the town, not only growing amounts of people living on the streets and searching for edible rubbish in the bins.
So, you mean that we shall kill politely, eh? If you dont get used to death, how can you accept the fact that your mere life depends on the slaughter of so many animals, plants and other beings? Even if we dont throw their bones out of the window, or leave their remains on the street, we KILL them.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the best we can do about it is to serve life however we can- to kill only for food or to protect our own life, to help plants grow, to feed animals and, of course, to help other people when they are in great need. Our life depends on the well being of them, and we cannot just hide in our homes and pray that we wont need to search for food in the bins, like so many people are gonna do..
To be honest,i can't even see why we're arguing--if we are anyway. Thing is,i do agree on what you're saying,and i do believe im an awful person for contributing to this. However,i do whatever i can,i try to help people and animals,it may be little,but i do. I just want to point out that there are so many people in the world that don't give a fuck about it and that they make the situation even worse. I don't know why do you insist on getting used to death,at least not the way you say it. It seems a little bit pointless to get used to it, cause it shows some terrible apathy, and i'm sure you're not that way. I swear that some day i'll go voluntarily to africa or you know some third world country and just live there with the minimum,help people,live their lives,make them better. At least i hope i do. It's been 3 years now that I've decided it,so let's wait and see.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I've thought of that last part you mentioned... you know going to africa or something and living like them, for them... But I soon realised there is no electricity <=> no electric guitar... I can sing for them, I can "pay" for them, but i can't live for them for that small detail that defines my being... As for the ideas you two mentioned, I'd say apathy is a great thing but not for deaths (yeah, apparently!) Apathy for fashion or low quality music or art generally is equal to being a good person with taste for what is Beautiful... but still deaths of animals is...you know...reference to mental pain...that sorrow... We can cry for every animal we see dead, we can cry because we know much more animals (yeah, especially insects) die every passing hour, or minute, and that will only make us better because we will be able to get over the tears next time and decide to "wake up" people...friends...brothers...humans... For "god"sake we are all too similar and die to kill each other...
ReplyDeleteOk, Im in for Africa!
ReplyDeleteDude!!! They don't fancy drums!!!
ReplyDeleteTHEY DO! Drums are the base of African music. After uni Oradon. After uni. Promise me.
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