There must be a difference, a change and evolution; it tears me in two whenever I listen to the news. Women and children mainly are tormented and suffering and abused and some things that my brain cannot even bear to name. I always ask myself about the other person, you know when a crime is committed its always the suspect this and the victim that. What about the people who lived with these people. How do you get over your sister, brother and family, friend or even worse the child of this suspect or this victim ? Of this person who has done such atrocious things or the whom these often inhuman crimes are committed against. How do you go on the day after these horrendous events have passed?
What hurts me even more is the trend of people taking videos of every little thing that they come across on their camera phones. To sum it up there is a saying about giving a mad men a gun. All these public displays of humiliation are kept by reckless, feckless and for lack of a better word stupid people. The one or two times I have watched these kind of videos I have been tormented by the look on of the victims or suspect’s eyes.
The cry for help, the hopelessness and most of all the fact that there is nothing i could ever do to comfort them, to hold their hand and to say l am sorry that this barbaric act happened to you. It just rips through my soul, so much that even now tears run down my face.
There must be a law that limits, prohibits and controls these videos and pictures. Now imagine if ever the person in that video was your dear sister or child or brother. Because they are someone’s brother, sister and child. I have learnt that you cannot make up for great trauma or loss, that never goes away. But we evolve, become a new person to adjust with these situations and carry on, if at all we can carry on. I just wish that the person behind the lens would stop and think how they can help and not only concentrate on outing their hands on the camera. How do you not think to help another human being and only think to click on your camera phone. Countless videos and pictures circulating could have amounted to countless help to victims and countless lives saved. Then the familiar click of a camera goes again, selfie time