Broken People

From the start, every self help book that cat read was about forgetting the past hurt and to always be a positive thinker. They say that we should not dwell on our sadness as everyone have problems and each of them might be even worse than ours. So, we learn not to complaint and sweep all those unwanted and bad events under the carpet.

We shrug off life's trials and tribulations, convincing ourselves that they have made us stronger. Many people go through life with a broken piece inside them, masking the inner turmoil with routine, work and play. Most of the time, we may be completely unaware of this flaw in us because the broken piece does not make any sound: just a dead silence which might become a time bomb one day.

There's the case of the child abuse victim who does the same to his children; the college student who flips out with a fully loaded automatic rifle; the abused victim who can never seem to form any stable relationship; the guy at the service counter who starts shouting for no apparent reason and lastly the tortured soul who finally decides to end her life.

A Asohan seems to voice it out more accurately: There are so many broken people out there. Counselling can help if a person is aware enough to seek help. But in some cases counselling can only the dress the wounds so that the person can play a functional role in society and then hope that the wound will not reopen or fester. Even those who want to help will not be able to reach in that deeply to help the most tortured souls.
For those unthinking people who ignore the consequences of their misdeeds or falsely believe that they would be redeemed 'as time heals all wounds', think again. The damage that you have done to other people may be deeper and darker than you'd like to assume.
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'Have you ever seen a dog get hit by a car, but walk away? There's this impact and you know that something terrible has happened to that dog. But it still walks away and doesn't seem to realize the implications. It just walks on. But, you, you know that something terrible has happened inside this dog and it is now there, biding its time.' - Full Frontal movie-

Signing off,
Cat