I experienced something different today, and it had me thinking about it throughout the day.
My mother and I were driving down a very busy road and there were two ducks and their ducklings crossing the road ahead of us. Then an on-coming car promptly ran over 3 of the 6 ducklings. Because my mother is a Vet, I pleaded her to stop and see what she could do for them, but sadly one was already splattered over the bitumen.
Dodging a truck she got the other two off the road but the second immediately died in her hands, and the other with broken legs wasn't going to make it either. Out of humanity to the struggling duckling, mum wrung its neck.
This episode that happened in about five minutes, and a post from the satorialist, put a lot of things in perspective for me today.
The way people act towards each other, the easy way in which we take our safety for granted. It just doesn't seem right, in a sense. If things were natural, we wouldn't have the supremacy we feel, and our respect for others wouldn't be just to get into his/her pants.
What ever happened to manners, chivalry and common decency?
Here's hoping.
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