Isn’t it funny how things sometimes turn out? Events occur that either leaves us in fits of rage or crumple just about everything we hold dear, everything we believe in. Sometimes we get into a limbo and retrospectively looking back, we just can’t seem to fathom how we got where we are in the first place. In most cases we never take responsibility for the chronology of events that put us in the tight spot. The converse is however true. We can’t help but blurb to the whole world how it took a stroke of genius for the success or how meticulous planning and Machiavellian discipleship on our part paid off. Never mind if we just borrowed the idea or copied it from other places. It’s just human nature, someone would point out.
What people think of us play a critical role on how we handle ourselves, in the public realms at the very least. Most if not all of Adam’s offspring like to portray a picture of calm, refined and peace with himself. Bold and strong, that’s the picture we all strive to portray. People want to be seen as the hero who defended their ideologies against popular thought. Nobody wants to be seen as the coward who relinquished his principles at the altar of sacrifice. Our worst fears are bottled up and shoved away. Nobody wants to be seen as feminine-the traditional misconception at the very least. Well, that’s humans for you.
We live in a diverse world where the line between right and wrong is very blurry. The Somali circumcise their ladies and consider it an important moral rite of passage. The medical community and human rights lobby groups consider it an unnecessary evil that places sentimental value over basic human rights. One would wonder how a whole community could be so wrong about a concept. But again truth isn’t democratic and sheer numbers alone cannot be used to determine what is right and what is wrong. One would wonder then why we place so much emphasis on our democratic process. “It’s different”, that’s the commonest answer you are likely to get. How different though nobody will even attempt to explain.
We all for strive for peace, or at the very least that’s what we proclaim to every single pair of listening ear that we can get. Never mind that it’s only when it’s in our own best immediate interests to pursue. We lay our actions on reputable sources that support our course of the moment but won’t hesitate to demonize the same references when it doesn’t suit our needs. A perpetual drunkard would argue that it’s God’s son who brewed the sweetest wine on earth. It therefore beats logic that He would castigate those appreciating his first miracle in Cana, Galilee.
In any debate, there are different prisms of looking at the same issue. There is the religious front, the moral front, the legal front among others. Am not saying that these views must always clash, at times they are in tandem. Christianity prohibits murder, so does the statutes of the land, so does the norms of our forefathers. The laws of the land excuse murder when there is a case of being pushed to justifiable anger or in case of defending one’s self. The Bible, The Christian good book though does not support it, the motivation notwithstanding. It even frowns on anger in the first place. Whichever way of thought you subscribe to, you can’t always be right all the time and of course you can’t always be wrong always.
That’s just the dilemma of being human. That’s just how we are-united in our physical resemblance (or most of it at the very least) but divided in everything else.
