May I ask why on Planet Earth Men will fight for land and goods but they will not rise up against arrogance and the protection of women and children? I am not even ranting about a country or a certain war I am talking about the simple acts that can be done here in the states and in our communities!
A few years back one of the reasons I chose to leave California was an indecent I was involved in at a local fast food restaurant. The restaurant was quite full there was a family of four, The father and mother and two boys. Two gentleman and his daughter, a manger eating lunch and Me the man I was with and his son. There were also a few employees behind the counter busily working when a man ran in and obviously was running from something or someone. Before we could make out what was happening Two cars pulled into the parking lot. That is when the man started saying "he is trying to shoot me!!" Now at this time the man was not only standing in the middle area where we are but now putting us in danger as the men circled around outside obviously deciding weather to shoot at us all and hope to get him or leave the scene to kill him another time. As I looked around at all the men inside I saw none were about to speak up or even moving. It was as if they thought they were watching a movie so no one spoke up but me. " Look I don't know what is going on but you are putting children at risk at least move away from us!" I looked at the little girls whose father was not even putting his arm around her. I then motioned to her to get down. I looked for one of the men to say something and once again I got silence. He starts to mumble some nonsense which lead me to believe he started the whole thing by his actions. I then turn to the manger and said "are you going to at least call the police?" Then in Spanish she told the employees to make the call and finally from the father with two boys he said "Yeah we don't want any trouble in here were trying to eat" well at least he said something. At that moment one of the guys from outside came in and said " This isn't over!!" and in his hand was a bright shining gun. They got in their cars and drove off. The man then began pacing like a caged animal who was trying to decide if he should leave or stay. I now stood up and spoke up again " Don't think about leaving after all you just put these kids through let alone us your waiting here for the authorizes." He sat down and I became disgusted at what I had just witnessed not only by the other men but the man I had come with. I was not sure what to blame the fact that they had be desensitized by movies and tv to see how real of a situation we had just experienced or that the men in there had forgot that their gender have boasted for centuries about their manliness, waged wars for lesser things but yet it was a women who spoke up for the protection of herself, the children and even them.
I had forgot that event until this morning. At our bus stop we have been forced due to our cities lack of man power to have a small area in which the kids can stand and safely catch the bus. Because of that most of us including the kids are force to be closer to the street then what we would like. The sidewalks are not clear so a few of the kids including me and Austin are forced to walk in the middle of the rode to even reach the bus stop. The bus stop is on a corner and the street is very narrow. Lately there has be a parent {a man } whose bus comes after ours parking right on the edge of where we are forced to stand. Not only parking in front of the bus stop but directly in front of the stop sign, giving no one any room to pass let alone stand. Him parking there puts not only the kids at the stop in danger but also those that have to walk down the hill. It is bad enough he is parking right on pardon my french but our asses { and I mean literally} but he keeps he car running so we all must inhale his fumes. Every time I pass by him I look at him and give him what Austin would call the "Look" for each day his laziness { since he lives no father then I from the stop} and his arrogance in rages my common sense. He drives because he is lazy, he parks so close because he wants to see the bus come without getting out of his car that he is not only putting us at risk but being very inconsiderate. Now I have spoken to two of the Fathers there and there were even two other men there today making remarks and faces at how rude this man is being but do you think any of then had not only the courage but common decadence to speak to him? No of course not. There is no land to be had, no goods to be gained. All that they would of been speaking up for was the safety and protection of the women and children that stand in the cold { not in a warm car} every day all winter long. Now maybe in our society men do not feel they must look over strangers but these are their children or at least children that have been put in their care. I once again feel nothing but disgust, divine anger and disappointment that once again it will be me who is the one that will have to stand up for what is right.
Yesterday I started to watch the History Channels new series Vikings. In the opening scenes the father is teaching his son to fight he is 13. At first I was set back because I believe in peace not war but as the story line played out my mind listened as it was time for the boy to become a man. His father on his trip to his initiation told him the story of how he had fought a bear to save his mother and that is how they met and afterward said to him " Will you protect the family?" The boy said "but Father you do that" and he answered "Son someday I will be gone and it will be your duty to keep the family safe and cared for!" . the boy looked into his fathers eyes and said " I will!" .. Where have those days gone? When did the men forget their oath to their forefathers and to God to look after the young, the women, the sick and the elderly? Is that why we have so lost our way. That men are afraid to stand up for common senses and the protection of other. Men go to war everyday for what they call freedom and liberty of all but who looks after the women and children left behind.
Do not get me wrong like in the movie "Thor" where Odin talks to Thor about war and the protection of its people " We do not seek war but we are always prepared for it". I believe that not every action that is took in disrespect needs to be reacted with in anger or hast but I do wish that the men of this planet would start standing up as the protector and as teacher to this younger generation of boys that there is honor and love when protecting those that either cant or shouldn't have too. It is sad that they are leaving it to women like me to teach boys how to be men and to teach men how to respect not only life but those in it.
I guess it will be me who teaches Austin to stand when no other men will, It will be me who teaches him to be a man of honor but it is sad that the only thing his Dad will teach him is how to use a gun... and even worse it will be society that teaches him that complacence breed arrogance and arrogance breeds a world full of dishonorable men. I can only hope that one day the men of this planet find their worth in the things that make them stronger and do not keep their minds in what blinds them. That they will find their way back to the day's of old when men were taught honor and respect for all and were willing to die for their belief in it.....
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