I'd kill for a holiday

Good morning my dear readers. I hope all of you are doing well. But unfortunately, I am not. Indeed, I personally consider it a miracle that I’m still able to perform my normal bodily functions without throwing up.

There used to be a time when cannibalism, barbarism etc dominated the human psyche, when humans used to eat up one another to sate their hunger. But that time has been long gone and we humans have come a long way since then. No longer do we kill each other, except verbally, in boardroom meetings, depositions and trials at a court of law and so on and so forth. And yet, it seems that our primitive instincts have taken over us again. Indeed , the recent killings and stabbings of young children in the state of  Uttar Pradesh, that too, for a day’s holiday or the postponement of exams are so gruesome, even to contemplate, that the very thought of them makes my stomach churn.

To be precise, a young lad of class II was stabbed and had had his throat slit by an elder boy of 16 years of age, all because the latter wanted to avoid an exam he did not want to attend and the subsequent parent teacher meeting after the exam. And in the second case, in Lucknow’s Brightland School, Hrithik Kumar, a young lad of 7 years was stabbed repeatedly by an elder girl of class VI, because, according to her, “the school would grant a day’s holiday if he died”. The reason behind her statement was that the school had a policy of granting a day’s holiday in case of the death of a student.

However, unlike the boy of class II, Hrithik was lucky as he was able to attract a teacher’s attention by kicking the locked door (yes, the girl had locked the girl after her deed and fled from the scene) with his feet. The girl’s father, however claimed that the girl was being framed to protect the real culprit, who “came from an influential family”, which is total nonsense in my opinion. I mean, how legitimate does that statement sound?

Indeed, my friends, I must confess, the fact that these two individuals could perform such heinous acts and that too, for such frivolous reasons such as skipping an exam and wanting a holiday, is frightening and bone-chilling, truth be told. Who knows, now lives might be taken, because somebody refuses to purchase something from a shop keeper or because someone forgot to pay the rent for their apartment or flat. Well, my friends that is all I have to say on or about this topic. Goodbye, and keep well.