An overseas visitor, whom we took around in our garden noticed the pepper plant with tender pepper which were green to look at. Her question was why, we call it black pepper when it should be called green pepper! I have no clue why this is so then or now!
But that question initiated some thoughts in my mind! The names or descriptions we use can explain only part of the full story. We know only in part, although sometimes we tend to believe that we know it fully!
The other truth that dawned on me was that, everything can change during its life time! The green pepper when dried becomes black! This change is a metaphor for the prospect for change resident in every human being. An intense debating issue in the media recently is whether we should get rid of the capital punishment altogether and substitute it with life imprisonment so that every criminal is given a chance to change till the end!
Listen to questions well and it can initiate us into a new awareness!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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