The First Stone Should Never Be Thrown

By Kerwin De Matas


One day, I saw a criminal documentary on Chilean television about this young Brazilian lady who apparently led a reckless life of prostitution and drugs. The long and short of it was that the boyfriend she had at the time used to beat her continiously. So it came about that one night while both of them were high, he started beating her for reasons known only to her, eventually though, it seems like she had had enough of that and fought back. What happened though was that she killed him in what was clearly self defense.
Honestly speaking now, whether anyone should deserve those situations or not is definitely not an alternative left up to them, life is what it is, and we can be dealt some cruel cards sometimes. Can we prevent those things from happening to us? We can only try. Now since we were not in her shoes in the moment that this drama played out, we can not even pretend to guess why she did, what she did afterwards with the body of the guy. She packed him whole into a suitcase and abandoned it in a public park……I don’t think even she could have answered as to why she did that.
Where am I going with all this? Very well, the comments I heard from a lot of people afterwards, was that in their opinion, she should not have been let off so easy from doing her time in jail. In my opinion, her failure is our failure, because society was just contented on making sure that she stayed as far away from our lives as possible, and to continue criticizing her. Now all the details of this case, I left them out on purpose, to concentrate on what I wanted to express on the following.

WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE!!

That is why in civilized societies we have what is supposed to be law and order, might not be the best at times, but I’m guessing that it’s there to help us live in a somewhat civilized manner, in theory that is. Now look around us carefully and then look at our selves. No one is better than no one. But being the human beings that we are, we just love to look and find errors in everyone else, instead of looking at ourselves first. I always feel uncomfortable when I hear church going people come out with the ‘all famous’ phrase, God will punish the sinners.
Now for people that know me, I am not here to touch religion, nor disrespect anyone or their beliefs. On the other hand though, after hearing this phrase and/or other phrases similar to the above, I always wonder, how does a person know what God thinks, are they in God’s mind to know what he will do and not do? Who are the sinners......? In my opinion, we all are, yes, every single one of us!
Oh, what God is going to do and how much we should fear God and where next God will send brimstone and fire……
The time has come where I think we should stop using God, as an excuse for our errors, as an instrument for commercialization, or, to put fear in us. We should instead open our eyes and look very deeply into our own hearts, and see that all the destruction, poverty, crime, cold blooded killings etc, are not done by out of this world beings, but are all done by us, mankind! Hell on earth? You bet! We are a huge danger to ourselves and to our fellow man…. I do believe in God and everything that God represents, but I will not go on my knees and pray that God helps me or my fellow man, no, we need to help ourselves first on recognizing our own faults, and then try on helping others regardless of what ever their sins might have been. Remember, some of us might be living in an economic situation that is on a level much higher to others, maybe an education that is a lot more superior, or even in a country that is deemed; first world status. Guess what, it still comes down to nil if we still continue on a destructive path leaving total waste to the left and right of us without any consideration of the final outcome. So there we are, stuck…. Either totally ignorant to what is going on about us, thinking that everything is okay, so long as the problem is not in our immediate surroundings, or totally ambitious on pushing forward, heedless to everything and everyone, to fill those coffers. What I am saying here would of course just join the millions of other similar opinions on the internet, being read (hopefully), thrown aside, and life goes on. Before this is read and forgotten though, just one thing: Not one person on this earth is superior to the next. Every living thing on earth plays a part on the survival or destruction of this planet, not God. God is the energy that is inside of every living thing on earth, it’s up to us on how we put that energy to proper use. Let’s stop using God as an instrument for everything gone bad on earth, and start recognizing that this is the power that helps us to live yet another day. Every day that we get, is a precious opportunity to correct our errors (even I have to remember that sometimes), because when you think about it, it’s these errors that causes the problems in the first place…. Take care, bless.