Kradzic....who once ordered to arrest, is now arrested.Saddam...who once signed to execute, was executed.
Armada...once that stood as the mightiest, was defeated.
Soviet...once cradle of power and literary geniuses, was shattered!
And what did we learn?
That’s the ‘bigger than life’ picture of things that are happening ‘there’, and therefore it remains virtually insignificant in our life..., is perhaps the reasoning!
What is the moral of story for you and I take to our corporate corridors and our living rooms?
In our corporate world, and in our living rooms, there are discriminations we make in our everyday life. We carry orders to manipulate and arrest the development of characters and careers of those ‘below’ us, or less powerful than us, or less privileged than us, because they are different than us, or because they are from a distant race than ours, or country, or religion, or colour, or gender. We execute mass massacres of the people’s hopes and dreams for a better tomorrow, amputate the limbs of their vision for a better life, because they are from the third world, or they are of different school of thoughts, or their ancestors had a history, or their political-religious leaders actions are made as the actions of these people. We stand tall and mighty with the power in our corporate circle, or the ego from the people we know or the tools we can access, and we roll-over those in our path heedless of the blood it spill crushing the skull and ribs and bones of the tiniest of humanity who in our eyes are disqualified for the label of human being. And our vision is blinded by the laurels we sit on and eclipsed by the glory we inherited by virtue, unaware that ‘this too shall pass...’; no fortune has lasted for ever, nor has misery...
We are silhouttes of Kradzics and Saddam’s and Armada and Soviet within our organizational and family environment. Our atrocities may be miniature in size, but the impact of its claws pierced on the individual lives are nothing less than the former.
Mightiest among us are then those who are kind in heart and clear in mind whose steps are measured with values in life... and they live in the pages of history and in the hearts of children of generations to come celebrated in kind and followed in fervour...
(belated Happy 90th Birthday, Madiba*...)
* Madiba is the nick name of Nelson Mandela who celebrated his 90th Birthday last Friday.
