Ponder a bit, please......

The scene was something like this – a goat tied to a pillar, being petted by a small boy of say 5-6 years, interesting and familiar right. Added to the fact that it was in front of the butcher shop. Hmmmmmm…… exciting again is the fact that the boy was hugging and petting it so lovingly that I never thought that he would give it up so quickly when his father asked to take the animal off from him, and, when the goat was slaughtered in front of his very eyes, I did not even see a flick of pain in the boy’s eyes.
I looked at the boy closely, a small boy with such a hardened heart. Is this what we name the ‘Everchanging World’ that we can’t even see innocence in the minds of these little ones. Weren’t the children always called as the ‘only innocent’ things in this world, or have they too lost it in the course of surviving and evolving as per Charles Darwin’s famous quotation “Survival of the fittest”. Well, unable to contain myself, I asked the little one, “Didn’t you love it?” To which he answered, “This happens to me everyday. So there is no time to cry.”
Certainly, there is no time to cry. But do we have at least time to think!!