Tacitly tacit

    15-May-2022
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Zena Singh
Contd from previous issue
no one around to understand or care enough to try to understand another… that one is driven to a point. People discuss those who cannot speak as objects… can they understand ??? Oh does she /he do this does she/he feel ????? and we raise our voices and speak to that object… lest she/he is deaf and perhaps have to be woken to their senses….
WHY ? Man was created with a reasoning, and with emotions, with a reasoning to figure out things to find solutions.. ..emotions to understand the feelings of another with empathy not just sympathy.  Then why does the company of the faithful dog, who has no reasoning perhaps or solutions, feel so calming just when it sits beside you with no words but a lick of the hand or a nuzzle ? That dog has sense enough to be protective over child or the person with disabilities, enough to know that she/he cannot protect herself/himself. The dog then instinctively takes charge of being around when other strangers are there . It then guards not allowing them to even touch the disabled. If this creature of God can use its instinctive powers, who then are we, much higher creatures of God, to numb ourselves of any form of feeling ?
Outdated would be the once popular lyrics sung by Simon & Garfunkel…  “you just call out my name and you know wherever I am I’ll come running….. “replacing it with… You just type out the word and you know whatever it is, it’ll BE THERE…. Yes it will, you’ve got a friend ..”… in a smart phone.