DAY 112

A young lad was caught after he hacked a middle-aged man to death while the latter was out with his nine year old son.

The man was the lad's father's sworn enemy. An enmity that was much older than the lad and even his father. The lad's father was murdered by the man many years ago and the young lad had sworn to avenge his father's killing.

So he hacked him to death, right in front the man's nine-year old son.

As the young lad was taken away by the police, the little boy looked at him and in his mind he made himself a promise: "I will avenge my father's death. Surely."

And so the cycle continued along with more hatred, misery and sorrow.

I am going through a situation in life right now, where I am caught between two parties. Not that they want to murder each other psychically. But what they are doing to each other is akin to that. One man's ego is hurt because the other man did what he did to hurt him. Now, even if the other man is willing to find a solution and definitely there is a solution the problem the former is not willing to relent. All he wants his to avenge his Ego's murder.

Come to think of it, we as humans are always avenging the killing of our ego putting us bang in the middle of an endless cycle of hatred, anger, frustration and hurt.

All it would take is to stop and say: Enough. I am putting my weapon down. And I will not get sucked into this cycle. Now that's what I call heroic.

For some strange reason I thought of this thought when I saw this image. If you notice you will find that nature lives peacefully with different elements of its world. Water drops from the skies in the form of rain, goes through this marvelous cycle and evaporates up into the sky to await its turn to become rain drops.

Just imagine what would happen if any one element in this cycle felt belittled, its ego hurt and refused to do its part. Ouch!