WHO SHALL CONDOLE WITH THE POOR, THE NEGLECTED, THE POWERLESS...?

I find it hard to understand man - the Adams and Eves of today. They claim to be sons and daughters of one Supreme Power but fail to grasp the fact that humans live because others live. That man becomes "complete" when those around him become "complete". 

Our wellbeing is grounded on the philosophy of coexistence and of mutual respect. It's premised on the collective thought of people - that of rejoicing together and grieving together. To claim to be apart from others is a fallacy of the highest degree. We are linked. We were cut from the same cloth - whether poor or rich, literate or illiterate, powerful or powerless, etc.

Which begs the question - why do we amplify our cries when the upper class grieves and be muted when the poorest of the poor are killed like rats? 

It's so paradoxical that even the poor, the powerless, the neglected...have joined this choir. They sing the song of the powerful. That of recognizing the death of the powerful and forgetting the challenges of the weak. They scold and pull down fellow poor men. They don't believe in themselves and keep on casting aspersions on the successful ones amongst them.

No amount of misdoings shall give peace to man's conscience - and to the world. Such acts will trigger tsunamis and tremors that will crush humanity. It's just a matter of time. 

We mourn as nation when death knocks at the doors of the who-is-who in town. We plant trees in memory of their souls. We contribute the little we have to support their families. We do all (that) we are told to do to express our greatest love for the departed. Then we retreat to our cocoons to wait for another "big guy" to die for us to rise up in "solidarity".

A society that believes this is the right thing to do is a society courting disasters. It's a society that promotes oppression. It thrives on segregation and sloganization. These double-standards will kill us.

The lives of the slum dwellers are as precious as those of upmarket chaps. If planting trees and erecting statues in memory of the souls of tragedy-hit rich and powerful is the way to go, the poor and powerless killed daily by preventable diseases also must be accorded these last respects - at least in death for we have failed to respect them while still alive.