Is there any humanity left?
I don't know about you but I've not heard to much about it lately.
One story on the news this week happened in Madison. A 15 year old that was starved and abused by her father, stepmother and stepbrother. She was found wondering on the street in obvious need of help. She was malnourished weighing about 70 pounds. She had been forced to live in the unfinished basement of the house which was built by Habitat for Humanity (the stepmother helped build it) for the last six years. She was forced to eat her own feces and drink her own urine. If she was caught eating without permission she was forced to throw up. Plus her 18 year old step brother had been allegedly had been molesting her since she was ten years old.
The girl is now being taken care of in the hospital and her mother, who lives in Texas wants to take her home with her. She has not had contact with her daughter for along time.
When I hear about something like this or even see someone really mistreating their own child, I want to ask them four questions.
First, why do you feel the need to make the child feel less then less?
Second, put your self in that child's place, how would you feel right now?
Third, if you have been made to feel like this in the past by your parent, how did you feel?
Fourth, I'm sure that you did not like it, so why do you feel the need to continue to pass the pain on?
It has to stop somewhere, why not with you.
No one wants to feel like nothing especially not from your own parent. That's where the loving is suppose to start. I know when kids are misbehaving it can be hard to not punish them for their misdeeds. But there is a difference between punishment and down right dehumanizing.
Another story I heard this week is about a man who had been missing for over a year and was found dead in a motel room near Tomah. He'd been dead for almost a year.
Could you imagine owning a motel and never checking all the rooms all the time for up keep for a year? That is apparently what happen here.
But I ask wasn't there ever the rotting smell of death in the air? And if you didn't notice it what does the rest of the motel smell like.
Well that's just the main two things that have been on my mind about humanity.
I was asking people this week if there was any humanity left in the world most said very little and some said none.
I wonder how we change this? Or is it an unchangeable path we are on?
Things will get far more worse before they ever get better.
Such a sad thought.
That's my ponder for now.
Tell next time keep on pondering the pondering possibilities.
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