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The 'Rat race' and compassion towards animals

An old post of mine from October 13, 2014

Happened to witness a gruesome incident yesterday evening at the ECR near Mahabalipuram. I was traveling in an MTC bus to Mahabalipuram and I had occupied one of the the window seats. As the bus crossed Vada nemmeli, suddenly some of my co passengers were shouting to look at the right side of the road. An adult dog which was standing on the right side of the road (not in the middle of the road exactly) had just been hit by some vehicle ( I failed to notice the vehicle that hit it , it could have been a lorry or a car that was speeding on the opp side at that moment) and the dog's right eye had popped outside and was dangling on its face and the dog was screaming in pain and mortal agony, and then I noticed that its lower body (hind portion) had been severely crushed / damaged and the dog fell down dead. All this (my witnessing of the happenings) happened in just a couple of seconds as the bus in which I was traveling was moving at a great speed too. Imagine the effect it had on me for the rest of my journey. I might sound negative but to be really honest , I find animal behavior and decency much better than many people these days. The general population appears to be in some kind of a blind and destructive trance being involved in a mindless rat race called success and in that process most of our brothers and sisters (I am talking about Indians and tamilians in particular) have forgotten to be human, or worse they have forgotten what it means to be Human. I surely believe that the western public or even those in other parts of the world like the middle east, or south eastern and eastern parts of Asia are much more decent and responsible people. I am not writing this out of yesterday's incident alone; it has been my general opinion for a long time. It is only out of my concern for my fellow people that I am writing these words with agony and shame filling my heart. And it is only the one that loves truly will point out his or her loved ones' mistakes and shortcomings, and those that simply don't care about others will turn a blind eye and run the mill together in order to achieve their petty , mundane and pathetic desires or goals. When will we change ? When will we wake up ? When will we start caring for the weak and unprotected ? When will we start showing kindness and gentleness towards our lesser evolved brethren in the animal kingdom, instead of decorating our houses with their skins and filling our appetites with their flesh and bones ????????????

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