This is a word that should have never needed to exist. There should never have been, not even one time in the entirety of history, a need for the word cruel, or vindictive, or brutal, nasty, pitiless, hurtful, atrocious, wicked, evil, unkind, mean, spiteful, vile, malicious. No person should have had to go through something that would merit the invention of these words to describe someone else. But it happened. Look at how many, and there are more. Do you realize what those words existing mean? It means that one action can have you labeled, one, one action that you may not even think of.
What gives us the right to be cruel? What gives us the right to practise cruelty? I ask this because dear friends of mine have been hurt, and I don’t know how it happened, or what happened, or what was said, but I do know that there was pain involved. And at first I didn’t think of it, but now I realize…for those friends to feel the pain they felt, they had to have experienced some type of cruelty.
What makes us, anyone, so wonderful that they have the right to degrade someone? What? Race? Color? Nationality? Religion? WHAT!?! Daily people kill themselves because someone, or people are so cruel to them that they feel that everyone in this world must feel the same way. Daily people turn to vises to deal with the cruelty they suffer. Why should they have to?
Growing up I have heard that people, more specifically kids, are cruel. I was one of the ones made fun of in elementary school–luckily I am one of the strong ones that can learn from it, and choose, now, to ignore it. But what kind of excuse is that to a child facing Hell on Earth? “Oh, you might as well get used to it, People ARE Cruel…”
Even I can be cruel, we all can be, we all have been. Isn’t that horrible, isn’t it horrible that I can look at myself and see that black mark? How about you, really look pass your own fictitious purity and perfection and see where you have caused pain. Maybe you haven’t, maybe you are really one of those people that despite everything, despite anger and jealousy, and annoyance and can honestly look at someone and not treat them unkindly. Bless you if you are. But if you have even said one unkind word, reflect on that. Maybe you ruined someones day. Maybe you added to the pain of a lost soul. Maybe you are the last straw before the drugs, the alcohol, the sex, or suicide invade someones life.
One cruel, one malicious, one unkind word is all it takes to break a person; to take the innocence from a child, to harm a pure soul. Do you want to be the one to say that word? Have you been the one to say that word?
There are many words synonomus to cruelty, and thus many words to describe cruel people. You and I have the choice to adopt one of these adjectives, or to take a word that means kind. Choose.
~Amanda~
