Please try to be a nicer, kinder person PART 3

(Contd. from Part 2)
Sounds of the morning radio come to me through the doorway while I am having my toast, and James Blunt comes on with a song about some guy worrying about some relationship. After the song, there’s some heated debate about how hospital patients needs aren’t being properly met.
Differing images flash through my mind, of the ‘importance’ of Flor Griffin Expert Stores sales, and dolphins throats being casually and methodically slit open while alive, because we want tuna, and world markets ‘force’ tuna fishers to treat dolphins as competition. The value of B&Q’s 20% off power tools, and Hotpoint washing machines with bigger drums at Sound Store, seem to pale away with images of young boys in Sierra Leone getting their arms cut off, and more young boys being forced to murder and torture people in the film ‘Blood Diamond’. Daft Dave (an Irish fictitious commercial character) is on now, people have to have their marble and porcelain tiles - as cheap as possible, which is vital, and my tea is going cold so I have to put it in the microwave to re-heat it. Poor me.
And then I think back to a shot of one poor horribly disfigured sow, who was just left so terribly deformed by abuse, neglect and illness lying in filth upon a concrete floor. Open lesions, scars, cuts bruised tissue showed years of abuse all over her poor old body, left to die in that spot of some ordinary disease. Typically, a pig in her condition is just left to die, without food or water. Shur why bother. Her ribs bones and joints were showing through her cruelly marked skin. Nobody on the radio thought of this poor sow. Like me, they were all too worried about their relationships, and the health service. The only thing of beauty left about her were her lovely eyes, gently blinking, not being able to understand the cruelty vented on her since she came into this world. She was a long time there dying.

In the shower this morning, I thought about what a horribly greedy & cruel race we can be at times, and the damage we are doing all around us to just about everything. We seem to be totally concerned with our own little greedy selfish concerns, and use apathy and ignorance and ‘progress’ as an excuse.
I realised that my head just hung down, and my shoulders were slumped forward, and I was ashamed to be a human.


Please just try to be a kinder & nicer person to everyone & everything.

Hugh.