It is an Accursed (ill) Bird that Fouls its Own Nest

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Vilifying your own family and washing dirty linen in public are deeds not done by self-respecting, decent people. Yet there is a substantial chunk of the world’s population doing just that at the moment. The ones indulging in it have hundreds of hangers- on who will egg them on to make greater fools of themselves. And why will they not? If you are willing to make a spectacle of yourself and your family why will the eggers-on not get full recompense for following you through this muck? After all they are investing time and effort at being your staunch and devoted friends, aren’t they? So the least you can do to repay them is to allow them to have a finger in the pie, so to speak. And sometimes one may strike gold and get some pecuniary benefits from being a hanger-on too. That is  like the proverbial 'icing on the cake' along with the free tamasha.

And then we wonder why there is no peace in the world today? Or why Obama gets the Nobel for Peace?

You don’t need Sten guns and M16As to inflict injury and cause damage to body, mind and soul. Man is equipped with a far more potent weapon that can do these effectively-WORDS. The world today has gone crazy with the pollution created by empty heads and babbling mouths. People are so much in love with the sound of their own voices that it does not matter to them that all they are spouting are ludicrous lies most of which may even sound quite pathetic. What can be more wretched than to have to believe your own lies? There is no peace within these sad, sad folks. 

Fouling other people, even if they happen to be family, is a way to assuage a desperately poor self image. They find solace in digging out the dirt from other peoples’ lives , these malicious people, to keep busy so they don’t have to peep into their own. Be that as it may, it is a self defeating exercise and nothing good can ever come of it. It is also sad that these demented individuals don’t realize sycophants don’t have the welfare of anybody in their hearts. Just like vultures they will crowd round any carcass- today they are on your side of the party- tomorrow they will devour your carcass too.

It is ironic that those who talk the most learn the least. The ones that preach are the ones most in need of their own preaching. We ignore history and never learn from it only to repeat it again and again. A person who cannot feel happy with God’s gift of a family and tries to find homeliness in strange quarters ends up being the loser in both cases. So friends, it is important to remember that we, as individual cogs in the giant wheel of society, need to make adjustments, learn to accommodate, learn to forgive and love our lot to find peace within and without.