Looking through a colored glass

There is this Tamil movie  in which Vadivel the comedian plays a local dhada  role and Madhavan is a youth residing in that locality.  The scene goes on like this, after a few encounters between them :  Madhavan comes out of Vadivel's house and tells a lie that Vadivel is being corrupt or something to that effect.  The whole crowd believes whatever he say despite Vadivel protesting his innocence, where one of the person in the crowd saying aloud that " a white skinned person will not lie".  I was reminded of that scene, when one of our friends was recounting a true happening in US.

Of course, this happened a few years earlier in one of the suburbs of Washington where my friend and his friend were working for a US company providing late night support to the organization to run through the various batch jobs.  These two people were living close by the office as their work hours were out of ordinary.  When my friend left for home late in the night around 103.0 pm, he saw his friend starting out from the apartment a few blocks away.  The traffic was close to nil with just one or two other pedestrians on the road.  On the same side of the road as this guy walking from the opposite side was a huge black guy.   Seeing him, this guy crossed over the road to walk on the other side walk where a  white guy  was walking  from the opposite direction.  As the white guy neared this guy, he suddenly started mugging him asking him to give away all his money.  Seeing all this commotion, the black guy started running in the help the indian while my friend also ran to help his friend.  When the white guy saw two people coming to help his victim, he turned turtle and ran away.   What an irony, the Indian who feared the black guy and thought the white as harmless was totally proved wrong.

Our lives are so full of such perception : if the above story is based on color, there are some which are based on misunderstanding people based on their background.  The con men hoodwink their victims by making sure that their victims trust them. 

The life teaches us to look beyond the externals and look into the inner core, but we never learn our lesson at all, isnt.

At this point, I leave my musing for the readers to ponder on

Comments

Umasree said…
With another set of elections round the corner, I get what you are saying. A small time thief gets years of prisonment....and big time leaders loot us right royally as with zero inner core and 100% external smiles!...Time to think and whom to believe!...We are going to once again leave the Nation in the hands of real perpetrators in the name of democratic elected leaders..which so ever party they belong.....I am sure our freedom fighters would be turning restlessly in their graves!
March 23, 2011 at 12:12:00 PM PDT
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