It's been raining for the whole month here and the surroundings seemed serene and calm. My cat Dipsey (her tail is like a dipstick) who has been living with me for eight years now given birth to two new kittens. Life goes on and taking twists and turns. Thinking about life: things happened like a flip of a coin or maybe if the choice is more - like a spin of a wheel - round and round it goes, where its going to stop, nobody knows. If it is so then there is LITTLE Justice in life.
Does it seem to you at times this world has got everything all screwed up? Does it seem to you the balance between the way things should be and the way things are is so far out of whack that your moral compass is stuck on its side with the needle knocked off the centering pin? Does it seem no matter how hard you work and struggle and remain a person of integrity you can't seem to get ahead while all around you folks are swimming in money or success or fame? Go ahead, scream it out! "THERE IS NO JUSTICE!"
Consider the following real life headlines:
The student that gets a perfect 4.0 in college is paraded before 23-thousand parents and students at graduation as a prime example of the academic excellence to which we should all aspire. We all know in this society that the only reason everyone else didn't earn a 4.0 is because they didn't work hard enough, they weren't dedicated enough, and they didn't have enough heart. The hundreds of others who fell short of that mark but managed to graduate working 25 hours a week, volunteering on the side, swamped in debt because their parents aren't rich, content with utilizing what talents they have to the best of their ability, are dismissed as a blip on the academic screen. There is no justice!
Lawyers who are able to walk away with millions of dollars in settlement money from accidents or mishaps that claim the lives of innocent victims, having done nothing more than argued their case before a judge or jury. Twelve tobacco lawsuit attorneys will each take home 258-million dollars for their part in the billion-dollar litigation. Hundreds and thousands who smoked and died got nothing. The defenders of the law designed to guarantee that we are all treated equally masterfully manipulate that same law to their financial benefit and society's collective financial loss. There is no justice!
Television news anchors who are selected and paid enormous salaries because of the way their hair falls, the color of their eyes, their raw sex appeal, the color of their skin, their minority status, their age, their being in the right place at the right time with the right agent. The veteran journalists who are ushered out the door on Friday afternoons, forced out by lower salaries, replaced by bubble headed 20 to 30-somethings that don't know the difference between an allegation and a fact, nor understand the impact of the stories they are reporting. There is no justice.
Perks and privileges and pandering and parading and praising those individuals in our society that "someone" declares as sleek, trim, muscular and beautiful. The rest of society is driven to psychosis by those image-makers that demand we shelve our own identities in favor of the mass marketed dribble of the "in" crowd. There is no justice.
The pressure to succeed and gather more and more things and more and more money is viewed as fulfillment of the Malaysian Dream. Hard work and making it to the top and crushing the competition and being number one have become Gods in themselves. Wanting more family time, more time off, more time to enjoy ourselves, more time to absorb the beauty of everything around us is considered as laziness. There is no justice.
OMG - there is no justice....
