You are walking your dog; it gets provoked
by many dogs along the way; it holds its head but after being pushed to its
limit, reacts, often by jumping towards one of those mutts and pulling on the
leash.
You do not administer your, misplaced,
wrath on the provocateur but on your hapless dog.
It gets pulled back, given a few harsh
words and reprimanded and brought back home.
The story repeats the next time and the
next time.
Your two children end up fighting. How
often have you been completely neutral? Haven’t you been guilty of lecturing
the softer of the two, more often.
The story repeats the next time and the next time.
You have a toxic colleague at work. Who
brings out the worst in the most decent of all people. Time spent in his/her
presence increases the toxic level of your system beyond what it is designed to
handle. How do you detox?
Elementary, Dr. Watson! You take it out on
a docile friend. Who does not deserve it nor does he/she understand why the
shit is falling on his/her head.
The story repeats the next time and the next time.
Your mother and your wife has a standoff.
It is no rocket science to understand who gets lectured, even if the facts are
as clear as the day.
The story repeats the next time and the next time.
There is a clear act of misdemeanour in a
public place. Your husband/wife takes a stand and exposes it and fights it out.
Creates a scene. The miscreant walks away, the act is forgotten, the crowd
disperses after having its quota of free entertainment. The real story begins
after this. The husband/wife starts to receive a lecture on “what was the need
for you to be a hero, did not you make a fool of yourself, what did you solve
today, etc. etc. …”
The story repeats the next time and the next time.
There must be some unique strain in our DNA
that makes us treat those who we love (or those who love us) in a cruel way.
Come to think of it, it is quite possible
that we start loving someone so that we can hurt them one day!
Very well said....Krish...
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