Hope & Numb

A system so rotten to the core, it breeds contempt. The sheer scale of misery makes the stomach churn.

Constant abuse of the downtrodden while the elites live in their airy palaces with pearly gates and no care for anyone else.

Everyone in charge of keeping a check is part of the grand scheme to keep trampling the unfortunate and making sure the status quo remains.

Some are lifted up to keep a hope alive that things could change when it never will. But without this hope, the whole system created by them would crumble as it’s built upon the dreams and wishes of the very ones that they have kept from ever attaining an ounce of happiness and freedom.

They are forced to live thinking of a better tomorrow, toiling day and night for the supposed betterment of their future generations. But they do not really want them to have any kind of freedom or lasting happiness, because if they do, who will break their backs day after day for a pittance that does not afford them a basic dignity of living. Forget living, they don't even get to have any sort of dignity in death either!

For the rest of us, who do not belong to either stratum, the easier option has always, always, been to ignore this. Out of sight, out of mind, ignorance is bliss and what not! While I do not associate with this mentality, I cannot help but spare a thought for them because once you empathize, it's very difficult to look the other way. And it then becomes extremely difficult to carry on with our daily lives since we then can see the injustice and oppression happening all around us. So, instead, we end up building walls around ourselves, because feeling nothing is a whole lot better than feeling the weight of knowing. That is to say, numbing our senses is far easier than facing the onslaught of seeing things clearly.