On Bears and Bombs
Dear friend,
Here is a long short story that accompanies us from Creation.
I know it might be controversial, but I am just the messenger.
You are free to express your thoughts and emotions in the comments section.
Warm Regards
On Bears and Bombs
(A short story by Sal Godoij.)
1.- A grizzly bear attacked a group of children and teachers in British Columbia, Canada.
2.- Teachers are held in high regard for their bravery in confronting the bear and saving the children. They are heroes.
3.- More than 350 grizzly bears in average are destroyed every year.
4.- Police and other forces are hunting the bear.
5.- The Prime Minister and other authorities applaud the teachers' courage.
6.- Criminal bear, criminal bear, criminal bear!
7.- In the meantime, people who kill other people are hailed as heroes.
8.- We invade the animal's space.
9.- We transform the environment, leaving the animals with nowhere to go.
10.-We fill the rivers, lakes, and oceans with garbage.
11.-We create bombs to destroy our neighbours in seconds, and we are happy and smiling in the picture.
12.- We celebrate atomic bombs and cut a cake in the shape of an atomic bomb.
13.- (No one lives here on this floor because 13 brings bad luck.)
14.- We drive the animals crazy, and then we hunt them for their misbehaviour.
15.- We never leave them in peace; we disturb their lives with our machines and crowded safaris, and we feel happy because that's good business. Oh God, oh God, oh God. Where are you?
16.- We must kill the bear, hunt the bear, destroy the bear, and give stuffed teddy bears with love to our loved ones.
17.- That's what we do! That's what we are! We are humans! Oh God, where are you?
18.- Is it not better to respect the animal's place? Is it not better to give them back their space?
19.- Why do we have to go there?
20.- Did the bear come downtown to attack innocent citizens? Did the grizzly bear do that?
21.- Is it better to destroy that bear, but with what moral, with what truth, with what reason?
22.- Think, oh humans, think for once, what are we doing? Think before it's too late.
23.- Open your eyes, oh humans. Re-frame your vision of yourselves and your role on Earth.
24.- You are not here to exterminate, to exterminate, to exterminate.
25.- Because until now, there are more funds, more ingenuity and more agreement to build weapons than to cure wounds.
26.- Hunt the bear, kill the bear, destroy that life.
27.- Do it again, and again, and again
28.- But tell the rest of us with what reason you do it? With what moral? With what truth?
