BREAKING THE WALLS OF IGNORANCE.

I was in a cab with a woman who has a little boy of about 4 sitting on her laps next to me when our cab was forced to halt in a traffic jam. While in the traffic jam, a mentally disordered man looking very dirty and rough from his very bushy dread locked hair to his extremely dirty cloth walked along the same road. 

This is a normal and popular sight around town so I didn’t pay much attention but a more unusual sight caught my attention. The boy sitting next to me seemed engrossed with the sight of the mad man and he attentively watched until the

 man went out of sight. I couldn’t stop imagining what was running through the mind of the boy… I wished I could ask.

Soon, traffic started moving and we came within the sight range of the mad man again. This time, the boy paid more attention for a while and suddenly turns around to face his mum- he seemed to have gathered his thoughts and now wants to tell mummy about it. I was ready to hear what he’ll say after an intense study. To my chagrin, he just said “mummy look, he is walking!”

There are times when things happen around us; things strange and unusual. These times, we know we’ve got to do something or at least give the situation the right interpretation for the right response but something lets us down and deny us the right response for such situation.

The boy said his words after a critical study of the scenario because there is the great hunger in him to interpret what he has seen but pitifully, he couldn’t find the words to do the job… he knows he has just said the words that aren’t as strange as what he saw.

The mother simply didn’t see why she should respond to a child saying “he is walking” since everyone on the street were walking.

Most times it isn’t that we do not know, it is just that we do not have the right words or means of expression to what is happening and that automatically place us in the category of the ‘ignorant’.

The only way to solve this problem is to expand the scope of our experiences and that can only be greatly achieved by reading to exploit other people’s experiences.

Read books, articles and materials with values… because you can’t take anything (words and experiences) inclusive from where you’ve not kept them.