Shouldn't this bring us
all to a deep reflection... A system that vomits a girl of 23, 5-fold
mother, with a criminal record, being so removed from her self that
she beats up her 2-year old baby and glues her hands to a wall, while
she is on drugs...
How did we all, as an
evolved society, get to this?
How could we let this
girl and her children slip through the gaps?
Was there no family
around? Were there no friends? No neighbours? No teachers? No-one?
Self responsibility,
yes. Of course. We are all responsible for our actions. But sometimes
we need a little help. All of us.
We are social animals,
we cannot live our lives separated from our social group. We LEARN
from the group since we are babies. And this is exactly what is
happening in our highly evolved society. No social groups any more.
We live our lives by ourselves, we think that we are enough. But we
are not.
Every aspect in our
system pushes us towards “independence”... Independence? We have
thorn apart the same fabric of our own nature, we think we can live
in-humanly, but we can't. And these cases, thousands of them, are
proof of it. Independence from the very early years, so very
positive. Competition in each aspect of our lives, because there is
not enough for everybody, not enough jobs, not enough opportunities,
not enough money... Such a infamous lie. The only thing that there is
really not enough of and that should get us worried, really worried,
is that there is not enough love.
Where does that girl
come from? Which environment, which kind of family? What did her
parents and siblings teach her since she was a child? What did the
society teach her? The father/s of her children? Her friends and
relatives? Her bosses? Was there really nobody around who would
accompany her on the path of the human choices? Teach her what living
really is, what loving really is?
What chances did she
really have not to end up with 5 children at the age of 23, with a
criminal record, on drugs and abusing the very same beings that
should be the most important things in her live? Why wasn't her natural
instincts screaming?
Could there really have
been another ending to her story?
Justice has been done. Victory for the system. This system that separates us, this system that prefers punishing people with 99 years of prison without questioning itself, not even one second. For the system, it is easier and more convenient sentencing people to life in prison, somebody earns much more money that way, then by giving real humane support to people and communities.
I don't know Elizabeth
Escalona, I don't know if she would really have had a chance not to
end up as she has, but... Shouldn't we all be thinking about her
story and learn a lesson from it? How many Elizabeth Escalonas are in our
lives, in our neighbourhood, in our working environment, within our
family or friend circle? Will we do something about that?
It's too late for
Elizabeth Escalona and her children. She will live her life within a
correctional institution, and her children will live their lives
without their mother, her 2-year-old daughter will have to learn to
live with brain damage.
So it's up to us.
