Who killed Pak Itam mercilessly?

What do you think this picture represent? What does it mean to you? Do you need anymore information to understand thoroughly the situation before you can decide on the meaningful steps to be taken? Where do you think its taken?







So, who do you think was Pak Itam's merciless killer?

Some of you concluded it must have been Mak Itam because you WERE TOLD that the police could not find her so you would have imagined that she purposely disappeared to avoid being caught by the authority.

Now, some of you said it was Jeff because you WERE AGAIN TOLD that he made a quick exit when he saw the police were rushing to the house.

So, who is right and who is not? All of you agreed that the killer deserves harsh punishment.

What if I told that you that Pak Itam and Mak Itam were highly prized birds of Dato' XYZ who were confined in a cage. Jeff was actually their cat which went wild and managed to cause the cage to open and voraciously attacked the male bird!

So most of you wanted the killer to be severely punished when you thought it was a person.

The moral of the story

We are constantly exposed to all kinds of stories every single day of our lives. Sensational ones are splashed in the news everyday and we are left to consume the stories most of the time with very little bacground information and some of the information may even be misleading(sometimes intentional). On top of that, we have our own set of past experiences through our association with different sets of human beings, environment and achievements.

We are left to our own discretion to decipher the real values or the truth through the explosive mass of information or stories strategically aligned by writers to produce certain accepted cascade of reactions usually dictated politically to preserve the governing political party.

So, say we hear something bad about someone. We are given the 'what' is so evil about the person revealed. BEFORE JUDGING this person, we need to know the background about the accused AND the ACCUSER. Does the person who portray the bad image have something behind the scene that will benefit him OR his organization? Was the accused under duress to commit what he did? What was the history that preceded a particular act of misconduct or evil deed? If we are correct does that necessarily prove that everybody else opinion is wrong? If I say it is night right now and you choose to say it's day, does that mean we are exclusive of each other?

Some of the articles we read especially especially those involving public/political or opposition figures always beware of the extra 'spices' thrown in the stories to create a thriller that might last a few days/weeks or even months. Especially when there is a political agenda either to enhance or destroy the image of someone we have to specially cautious and analyze the views fed into our unsuspecting minds to prolong the reign of ailing governments and to terminate or diminish the growing influence of their opposers.

So, what do we do before we grab any newspaper? May I suggest we be clear in our minds so that we are subjected to just anybody's manouvres of our emotions that blind most judgements and cause irreversible damage. Despite the glaring fact that some so-called leaders contradict their own principles in decisions they make and actions they take.

I'll try to explain in our future encounters, insyaallah.

'Unconventional thinking'

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