Everytime I dig out a grown up plant in the garden, I feel a bit bad. Not because the plant is a rare variety or that it is a 'good' plant for the garden but because it has taken more than a year to grow to the stature it is. And my act of 15 minutes is going to undo all of that year's slow painstaking effort of the plant to keep growing.
The same logic is applicable to people as well. Whenever someone is killed, however or for whatever reason, that single act of an instant negates years of growth. Not only of that person but of all those involved in the life of that person, right since infancy. Surviving all those years of childhood's vulnerabilities mostly riding on the gracious and generous sacrifice of parents, the risks and dangers of youth, dodging those viruses and fatal bacteria, carving out a life, building up relationships and a worldview... all of it, everything is destroyed by one senseless act of someone. And most often why does one murder? Merely because something the person said or wrote is not to my liking, or because the other person's belief structure is different from that of mine... If only one would weigh all what goes into making a life against that one particular differing aspect, just for one silent minute, may be several lives would be spared.
The same logic is applicable to people as well. Whenever someone is killed, however or for whatever reason, that single act of an instant negates years of growth. Not only of that person but of all those involved in the life of that person, right since infancy. Surviving all those years of childhood's vulnerabilities mostly riding on the gracious and generous sacrifice of parents, the risks and dangers of youth, dodging those viruses and fatal bacteria, carving out a life, building up relationships and a worldview... all of it, everything is destroyed by one senseless act of someone. And most often why does one murder? Merely because something the person said or wrote is not to my liking, or because the other person's belief structure is different from that of mine... If only one would weigh all what goes into making a life against that one particular differing aspect, just for one silent minute, may be several lives would be spared.
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