Saturday, June 12, 2010

The Plague




He avoids them like plague”. The statement was from a person who was refering to me the attitude of her friend towards some of his kin. She continued, “While in Coiambatore he prefers to call up on his few friends rather than go to the abhorred lot”.


Made me think a bit, but at the same time also struck a cord with the statement. Yes most of us have encountered people in flesh and blood  whom we later chose to avoid like plague. The civilized thing we could do most is not to burn them at the stake, like they did to plague afflicted lot in medieval times, but keep away.


But what this person referred to was not biological plague but plague of the soul, mind and the heart. Sounds quirk? “And there are many amidst us who are incurably afflicted by the disease of the persona. They walk and live in our midst as carriers of the abhorred bacteria .The melancholia of the matter is they can be more often the people who have been nearest to you”...


I did not bother to continue the discussion. And let the matter rest there. More because it was indisputably so!

5 comments:

Destiny's child... said...

Some people are actually best avoided. Why get plagued?

Jon said...

There are people who gets the label of 'untouchables' due to no fault of theirs!

anilkurup59 said...

hello Jon

I refered not to the biological scourge

amalg999 said...

Such people could plague PLAGUE itself !!!

anilkurup59 said...

@amalg999

You are right. There are bipedalled bacillus and virus that can eat the parasites itself