Feb 5, 2010

What is worthy, who is unworthy?

Who should call one thing “precious” and another “worthless”?
Think about all of which you have placed a price on.
In the big wide world full promise the selected few call life a playground. In the other part of the world where it's just a gray scale landscape.

A child is molested at a tender age, a teenager is raped repeatedly until she is with child and thrown out like a dirty rag – passers by call her.. “whore, worthless piece of trash, loose…”.

But who was it who ruined her young life? Who is to blame? A baby is born out of wedlock and called a bastard, the stigma will scar her all her life, the cross she will carry to the end of her life.

Human life is worthless but a nugget of gold found in dirty hole, in a third world country is tagged priceless and adorned with rubies and treated with care.

Who sets the standards?
Man himself.
Who gives him the authority to place value on anything?
Is the world’s standard final?

Should one gauge an object with the same measurement for a human life? Who rapes a child and calls her unworthy? Man.Who is man - is he not but dust himself? What is it you call worthy or place a price on? Is it truly priceless? When you would shatter a human life with no second thought why strive for wealth which is here only for a season?

Are our whims and fancies and every bead of sweat we strive to achieve in the only lifetime we have, worth it?

Will it pave us a road to heaven?

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