Slapping the story of a slap
The world has gone mad, as far as I am concerned.
On a stage an actor slapped another actor AFTER a bad, hurtful joke that was on the account of a woman with an illness, the wife of the slapper.
Although to joke on any level with anyone’s illness and/or disability is just a plain no go, now the whole – social media – world is in uproar, about the slap.
Everybody is analysing what happened, what this means, what consequences does this have onto the world.
Behaviour analysts, feminists, psychologists, many are joining the choir, all giving their explanation, opinion, all serving it as the one and only truth and most making the slapper to be the antichrist.
All are shouting from behind the computer screens that the slapper should have been arrested on the spot, that it was an abuse, that it is unacceptable and the like.
Sure, because if it was the shouter, s/he would have stayed seated, it would have not upsetted them, they would not have let their emotions run them over, they are a perfect Buddha, they are in absolute control of themselves all the time, under all circumstances.
Bullshit!
Oh, how I love older times, when snowflakes were only part of winter weather.
Come on people, if you really want to be upset, if you really want to be outraged then you might want to consider the real world.
You know, the one where still people are dying because of hunger; where there are still wars happening; where kids still get bullied and because of it commit suicide; where rape is a daily occurrence; where paedophilia is actively alive; where beating people into pulp, killing them because of their skin colour, religion or sexual orientation; … this list is fucking endless.
And you are upset, disturbed and outraged because of a slap across a face?
This is what I find ridiculous.
Teach, preach, show an example of how life is done well (or at least better), of what kindness is, of how not to judge, of how not to declare ‘truth’ with only partial knowledge, of how not to discriminate.
Teach, preach, show an example of how to humanly handle a situation where some might have made a mistake, explain what and how could have been done better.
Teach, preach, show what to do, how to stand up for your loved ones when they get emotionally or physically hurt, attacked by someone.
Be human, be compassionate, be understanding.
Accept that you don’t know it all, that you don’t hold the holy grail.
None of us does.
Stop screwing things up as we have done already with so many things in the world that could have been something of a great learning, growing for many but eventually became just another ride for the egos, for the 15 minutes fame chasers.
Compassion and empathy are beautiful virtues.
Learn them, use them.
Not to mention that many millions of us were slapped across the face for even much less of a reason, and we all lived and so does the world.
