ស្រឡាញ់ (sro-lanh) means ‘love’ in English. It doesn’t matter where you are from, or what language you speak, love represents the same meaning. However, people sometimes tend to misinterpret and take things to the extreme. Conditionally or unconditionally, LOVE should be the least thing that hurts.
On July 16, 2020, something tragic happened to a little 5-year-old girl. Lovely and innocent, a girl was cut from her left to her right cheek, which resulted in more than 100 stitches. If this hasn’t made you get on your feet yet, her right hand also got about 20 or more stitches. She has been in the hospital, crying without understanding what was happening to her. She was in pain and slept in fear. This isn’t about the physical scars she will carry, but the emotional scar that never she will definitely forget, ever.
This incident happened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the land of Angkor Wat, the land rich in culture and history. The land of LOVE.
The suspect was a woman who claimed that her little son, aged about 30 months, was injured by the 5-year-old girl two days prior to the tragic event. Her innocent son got 1 stitch on his forehead, which made her exasperated. Frustrated with what had happened, she said she couldn’t sleep and so she went to the market and bought a new knife. You can guess what happened next. She did it to the little 5-year-old girl in revenge. May god forbid! Didn’t she go to far?
Love and hatred go together in life. She loved her son so much that she hated anything that did evil to him. Isn’t that common sense? What would you do?
But wait! If I have to be completely honest, I condemn her for her cruel act. She almost killed a girl because she thought the girl deserve to payback what her son had gotten. For whatever reasons, she shouldn’t have done that. NO! She should never do that at all.
“I love my son.” doesn’t justify what she did to the girl. She is hated by her own race for what she did. She will be in court probably next Monday. Everyone is waiting for her judgement day, and so am I. No matter what she deserves at the end, the little girl will never have a normal life from now.
The love for her son and the hatred towards the girl make her HUMAN, and human is just animal without cognition.
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