Are All Of Us Cruel In Some Way?
The dictionary meaning of word cruel says - to make someone
suffer or to give pain to someone. Are all of us cruel in our
own ways? Some of us are more than others, but is cruelty a part
of every personality?
Let us look at it from the other side? Don't we all feel that
many times our friends, family and even the people dearest to us
act in ways that hurt us? Sometimes, we tell them about it, and
sometimes we ignore. But is it not true that all those who
relate with us closely at some point in our life, hurt us? The
hurt may not be by a deed. It can be words spoken harshly. It
can be misunderstanding our motives and giving them different
color. It can be accusing us for no fault of ours. Or it can be
simply not trying to understand us. All these actions hurt us.
Don't we think at that time that if the other party had been
more understanding, we would have felt more comfortable?
Cruelty does not escape even the most loving mothers. When a
mother is tense and tired, many times, she lets her child cry
for milk for sometime ignoring the cries and rather cursing the
child of hunger at all the times. The child does not understand
any of his/her mother's problems, but only wants to be fed. It
is not the child's mistake, but he /she is hurt. Why? Husbands
knowingly not trying to help their wives in household chores,
wives knowing all about husband's career problems still blaming
him for small mistakes, children in a class room, targeting a
child for a physical quality, and so on. Are all these not parts
of a cruel nature?
Companies not responding immediately to consumer's problems,
consumers hammering the companies for smallest faults, lawsuits
being filed for trivial matters, students made to slog in the
schools to get higher marks at the cost of their childhood,
politicians accusing each other of crimes never committed, and
so many other such instances that can be cited to prove that
somewhere in our life, we begin losing our compassion. Sadly, in
most of the cases, we are not aware of our cruelty. We become
aware of it only when we are targeted. Don't you agree that the
world is slowly becoming a cruel world?