The Tale of Two Tails

I found this image on Facebook posted by a fellow bunny lover. It reminded me of my two loves - Nibbles and Dudley, and how much they have grown since I brought them home.

Well first things first, Nibbles is a Dwarf Hotot (pronounced as HOH-toe); and Dudley is a Dwarf Holland Lop. Personality-wise, they are poles apart, Nibbles is your daily dose of Dennis the Menace with a tinge of Scooby-Doo when it comes to abrupt noises from the surrounding or even biting or jumping sounds from Dudley. Dwarf Hotots are known for their mischievity and it is said that to gauge such cheekiness, check the thickness of their eyebands. Hmm... and Nibbles to date definitely has the thickest pair of eyebands I've ever seen. Perhaps this is the only house in the whole Garden that would echo his name. For a small-sized fellow, he surely knows how to get around things and places in the house, from running under your feet to ninja-ing up the stairs, there is probably nothing he hasn't done in this house. With a personality of a dog-cat, he never fails to amuse me. His signature movement would probably be his love for his water bottle, of which he can make the loudest noise as a protest to us (mom and I) leaving the house or as a signal that it is 'playtime' (no he doesn't do things ordinarily but extraordinari-lee).

Dudley, the Holland Lop, on the other hand, is a complete gentleman. True to the description of Lops, he is a gentle character but please, oh please, be deceived not by this creature, he is far more mischievous than his best friend! He would probably be the mind behind Nibbles' doing! Unlike Nibbles, Dudley is more of the thinker than a doer, but he too has done almost every trick in the Book of Naughties~

Having lived all my life with dogs, I never in my wildest dreams, ever saw myself living days with two darling rascals. First day, I was super cautious cause bunnies are WAY SMALLER than dogs and caring for them is completely different. You could say it was a whole new chapter and experience and all.

Best of thanks to Jay from JJay Pet Station for all the care and advice, you gave me along my journey with this two~

Social Persecution + Social Discrimination = Man-made Execution

As complex as it may seem, the world doesn't seem to different as from 20 to 30 over years ago. Perhaps one could say that the mentality has changed but from what I see, it may just be called an 'Illusion'. To begin with it all, let's go through the meaning of each word and how it relates to the formulated equation.

Persecution, as inferred by various authors in Wikipediais the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another group. The most common forms are religious persecution, ethnic persecution, and political persecution, though there is naturally some overlap between these terms. The inflicting of suffering, harassment, isolation, imprisonment, fear, or pain are all factors that may establish persecution. Even so, not all suffering will necessarily establish persecution. The suffering experienced by the victim must be sufficiently severe. The threshold level of severity has been a source of much debate." In simpler words to the current era, I would classify it as Gossip! In the world today, yes, it still exist, the infliction of suffering, harassment, ostracising, etc., not physically but emotionally using verbal actions. As elaborated in the quote above, the common forms of persecution are religious, ethnic and political. All of which have and are interrelated to the current norm of society - for example, in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, as children, we are taught to love one another for it was clearly stated in Bible, "... you must love one another, just as I have loved you."- John 13: 34 (New Jerusalem Bible). Yet, having been taught so, in majority Churches, social persecution is taking place, religiously, etchnicly and politically. Having said so, how different are we from years or should I say centuries ago!!?

Moving on, we encounter a word no different from our friend above, Discrimination, in Wikipedia described as, "is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category. It involves the actual behaviors towards groups such as excluding or restricting members of one group from opportunities that are available to another group." Hmm, not too far aren't we. I would rename the word to or probably classify groups with such behavioural symptoms as 'clique'. Not only is it a familiar word at schools but it most places too, such as workplaces. The usual scenario, in a class or some other place, various groups consisting of various personas would already have been form. A good example would be from the movie, High School Musical or even the TV serial, Glee, wherein there are the popular kids such as the cheerleaders, the basketball team and so on; and on the other hand you have the 'doormat' groups consisting kids or rather teens called geeks and nerds or even the ugly and gloomy ones. So what happens when a new kid from outta town comes into the picture, he/she has the problem of fitting in cause you either have to be popular to sit with the upper class or a complete nerd to sit with the middle-class. If you can't do neither, you are a lower-class citizen, who belongs in limbo! But then again, my friends, this is only a fictional situation, looking at reality, how many of us feel the deja-vu~?

To sum it all up in a conclusion, I bring in my final "witness to the stand", Execution, or rather in my own summary, Man-made Execution. Unlike, what is described in dictionaries or Wikipedia, the perfect example to what a "man-made execution" is like, I give the current TV serial Gossip Girl, it tells of how social persecution and discrimination plays a big part in the upper society of Manhattan, and how those with completely no power suffer the worst off. But then again, you can also see how even those from the middle or lower-class can achieve with just a little help from the executioner, Gossip Girl herself. You think the writer of the series just wrote it out of a whim, I think not, the author would have either experienced it or had observed it from a third-person view. So how exactly are we different from the past? Doesn't my equation sum up to how uncivil-minded and immature the society we live in is and how it victimises the people around them. Don't always judge a book by its cover, for the truth is always written in the pages between.