Death of Surprise!!

These days every morning the first look at the newspaper opens to us a world of a amazingly desensitized herd called human beings. A man is killed, neighbours discover after a week, a woman is raped, onlookers pass by, a child is murdered ................eye witnesses deny any statement.And we the genteel discuss and read all this and more between sips of tea and bites of toast , complaining all the time " Oh my God, where is this country/world going to?".But how many of us , care to light a lamp for Tibet , or switch off our AC for a full day to save some power , or may be even take half hour out everyday to help the house maid learn A,B ,C.............
An accident on the main road, let me take the other way!! The neighbour girl being teased on road...............why do I care?? she anyways wears "revealing" clothes.I need to be on the top in office, have the best of cars and widest of the plasma, my child needs to go to the best school, and my housing complex should have a lot of greenery and peace. Farmers dieing..............I hope this does not stop the supply of organic rice to the Fab Mall next door, villages swiped of everything with river beds breaking, no food, no medicine, no water to drink...............as long as i go to pizza hut every second friday and get my scotch bottles from friend in the merchant navy , my "ooooooooohs and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahs " would be flowing for all my suffering fellow men.Is this what the system made us to be??Or is it the education ?? or is it just that the evil within ate way the conscience never to spit it out again.........
Surprise and shock are dead. the death has made way for a standard plastic sorrowful expression that stands for everything : mass massacre, child rape, inflation, farmer suicide , divorce next door and is practised by all diligently at breakfast tables with the newspaper in hand and dinner tables with the eye on CNN-IBN................every single day!!