26 July, 2025

Goodness towards all !





The above three photos taken at day break in our garden yesterday, indicated how birds and a spider are active early in the day! The silence at day break filled the garden. But the rhythm of life continues although it was raining most of the night!


 

When the rain ceased for a short while in the morning, the two Magpie Robins came out of their hiding to fend for their morning meal. They were looking for larvae and insects. 

I was reminded of the 'labour' of living! 

With a recent conflict at the Cambodian border, I happened to see some pictures of people fleeing the border towns. I saw people with empty vessels in their hand in Gaza, waiting in long queue for food!

With the President of the USA engaged in insulating himself from his acts of omission and commission, is now turning to arrest a former president on some ground! If the report of the USA moving its nuclear warheads in the ocean is true, it is a frightening indication of simmering unresolved conflicts between nations. The Ukraine might fall to the invading Russians and an independent country would cease to exist! 

In a world of altered value system of usurping others of their opportunity to exist, I found the birds and spider engaged in their labour with no harm or disorder for others. They live engaged in their role !

For long we lived hoping that the devastation during and after the Second World War was a lasting restraint from going to war or plotting to confront to dominate and subdue weaker nations! 

I have a suspicion that the carnal instinct of greed and selfish pursuit have received a civilised acceptance !

The Magpie Robins in our garden were telling me another message! We have enough to live on and others too have plenty for themselves. 



The above scenes in our feeding station yesterday morning affirmed me, that there is enough for everyone and one does not have to grab from others or deny others of what is their due!

The normal order in human relationships is fairness, justice and equality of opportunities! 

What we see around is an aberration which calls for passive resistance against this ugly turn of social and political behaviour!

Life is for living in fullness! 

Let the political leaders of the world think of their obligation to younger generation to leave for them a noble example of goodness towards all!

I dream for this reality to be true for us in India!


M.C.Mathew(text and photo)


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