Yesterday, a few of us rode off to the nearest beach to have a fun day out. We were driving around looking for the perfect shaded beach to laze the day away. While driving pass a park, I saw a few horses from afar. We parked by the side, walked in the shade towards the horses and sat on a bench nearby. The sight that we signed up for was heartbreaking.
There were four horses, two of them ponies. The black beauty immediately caught my eye, standing tall and beautiful. They had ropes tied around their mouth, holding them close to a bar. These ropes were hardly a meter long, the horses couldn’t move or stretch, or saddest above all, the horses couldn’t even sit because the floor was too hot. One of the pony was tied in the afternoon sun, missed the tree shade by a few inches. All of them looked so tired, their knees were giving way once in a while as they fought to stand up straight. The black beauty had her ribs protruding out of her stomach. The rest were relatively healthy. Every minute or so, we noticed the horses licking their lips. Out of that entire hour that we were perched there, not a single drop of water was offered to this horses. My sympathy reached out most to the most unfortunate one of all. He had a cart rested on his back. It looked pretty heavy, constructed using iron and wood. The pony had his eyes closed all the time. It looked like it was about to faint as it was swaying from left to right. It had tear marks leading down its face. It also had a wound around his neck with flies nesting on it.
All things living have souls. May it be as majestic as a lion, exotic as a hornbill, secret as a cow, tame as dogs, troublesome as termites or as disgusting as fungus. The common notion is that the smaller you are, the less worthy your life is. Notice how animal lovers never think twice about spraying down a trail of ants? As humans, what gives us the right to decide which life is more worthy?
Like many others, I too believe that animals are here as part of the cycle of life. Carnivores and omnivores kill to keep their generation going. We need to kill for basic necessities, food being the only option in our generation. Unlike our ancestors who killed to keep themselves warm, it does not apply in this era. We have taken the power to a different level, we kill for glamour, we kill for entertainment, we kill for convenience, we have no regard for our fellow living beings. So heartless we are, makes me wonder which of us are more human?
Let us not disgrace our fellow human kind by neglecting our capacity to empathies, think and love. Kill if you must, spare if u can, love whenever else you can.
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