Served her right, what an awful human being! My mind jumped into immediate conclusion, always ready to blame another individual. Shame on this woman, I said to myself.
Then, I read in that same report, “A neighbor said the woman
was ‘very depressed, always alone sitting on the stairway’ during her
pregnancy, and her apartment manager said she was behind on rent.” In a moment
myriad emotions ran through my mind. Perhaps she was a victim of our cruelness,
or someone took advantage of her and dumped her when she became pregnant!
Perhaps she lost her job and could not found one, or she is a woman with deep
religious conviction who did not want to abort. She may simply have just
exhausted all avenues to find help.
I began feeling guilty. How can I disregard my own
responsibility that went in its way to create this unkind society where a woman
tries to sell her baby?
In the end, I felt I am as much responsible for the plight
of this woman as her next door neighbor is. Together, with our aloofness and
our self-serving nature, we have built these cocoons, where we play our selfish
vain idiosyncratic games, and feel content.
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