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Our house was egged yesterday. Again. Yes, it's happened before and it will happen again. Actually.I'm expecting another onslaught today sometime. It is still the weekend and the neighbourhood kids are bored. Heaven help us when school holidays start at the end of the week!
Our attackers are rather bold. They will do it at any time of day, circling the house on their bikes and calling out the "m" word. I filmed one of them on my phone yesterday. Evidence I guess.
I'm choosing to act in love. I greet the boys and tell them my name so hopefully one day, when they get bored with what they're doing they'll choose to get to know me rather than attack us simply because of our genetic condition. Human behaviour truly baffles me. We reduce ourselves to the animalistic instinct of picking on the different, the weak, the infirm, knowing full well we are doing so rather than acting based on the instinct of survival of the fittest. This is what the animal kingdom is genetically engineered to do. Human beings were designed to do things differently to animals. Unfortunately some human beings are unaware of this fact.
I'm choosing to rejoice in the fact that the front windows of our house are sparking clean now that I've washed the eggy residue off. I'd been meaning to wash the windows for the longest time. There's nothing like the smell of rotten egg to stir you into action!
I'm choosing to not let these boys know they're actually getting to us, that their actions hurt. I'm choosing not to react in ways other than making our environment clean and safe. If I discover where these young boys live I will inform their parents, but that will be my only retaliatory action - unless of course the missiles become dangerous objects; in which case I'll be going to the police.
This is one small aspect of living with difference. It's typical, it's annoying, it can be disheartening; but I choose to remember that it is only a minority of society that chooses to act this way. The rest just let us be. I choose not to define myself based on the ignorant actions of others. I know who I am and it makes me wonder if our attackers are happy with themselves and their lives. Their need to attack others simply for being different from them seem to suggest otherwise.
Wow, I admire how you're handling this awful situation. What horrible children, I wonder what their parents would do if they knew. I hope the egging stops soon.
ReplyDeleteSo do I Rachel. I am hoping to be able to speak to the parents at some point when I know where they live. :)
DeleteI'm tempted to come and stake out your house and follow those little turds home. If I ever found out my kids were doing something like that to ANYBODY, never mind a family in your position, I would take my kids to the police myself. I hope they find something better to do quickly, and if there's anything myself or Anthony can do please don't hesitate to ask.
ReplyDeleteAfter advice from my brother (who is the Sargent at one of the local police stations) I went and filed a report at the local police station Larissa. My brother-in-law was also casing the neighborhood last night because one of the girls was harassed as she was getting home from work. They broke the latch on our gate. One of the neighbors also tried to intervene to make them stop & the kids threw insults & a beer bottle at him so he's also filed a report. It won't be long until these kids are brought to justice.
DeleteYou're a sweetheart. I'll be on the phone if there's something you can help out with. xo
I feel you are dealing with them in as wise a manner as possible. They need to be stopped and taught to behave better!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness I think I love you already with that attitude of love you have got! Very sad and actually quite shocking to me really. I have faith that people are changing - even if only one by one - to embrace the differences in each other.
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