Mine and Not Mine

Mine And Not Mine

The Root Of All Crime

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To elaborate today’s topic, I’ll start with an anecdote first.

I’ve recently bought a new bicycle. It came inside a big cardboard box, almost the size of the cycle. Yesterday, my mama (mother’s elder brother) asked me whether to keep the box or throw it away. Because to them, it’s a useless piece of box. And their problem is, or rather their accusation is—what they want to say—that there is not enough space in the house to store it! Which is a point-blank lie. The actual thing is, because it’s not theirs, it’s useless to them. They want to dump it. 

But when I protested saying “You would not have thought of throwing it out if it was yours!”, mama lost his speech and accused me of chattering rubbish! Actually, whatever they can’t digest is rubbish to them. What can I do? And what’s interesting is that mami (mama’s wife) confirmed my statement saying “Yes, truly, we would not have thrown it if it was ours.”

So, what do you understand from this incident? Things or people which or whom we don’t consider as belonging to us are useless to us. They are not worth our attention. We don’t take up responsibility for that thing or person. 

So, the crux of the conflict is this thought— is it mine or not? If not, then hell with it! We don’t care. That’s our attitude. No? The funny thing is, if it was theirs, they would not have said—“What’s the use?” They would have said—“Why throw it? We’ll use it”. I know their mentality. Anyway. 

This one thought is the cause of all human injustices and crime. We are only self-concerned, and not bothered about anyone else. We only take responsibility for those things and persons which or whom we think as our own; what comes into the sphere of our self; what belongs to us. The rest is not our headache!

Well, it’s beneath human quality. It’s inhuman to be like this. 

I am not hurt. Nor am I expressing my frustration. I see the human nature exposed before my eyes through the characters of my family members. I am just taking them as examples. 

I have a request to you. If you can’t see everything and everyone as your own, can you at least not hurt anyone, not make anyone feel ‘abandoned’? Ok, don’t make others feel accepted, praised, included, but can you at least stop doing the opposite? 

A selfish, self-obsessed human being is the worst thing that can exist in the universe! 

Don’t be that. 

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