This morning saw the second time my car has been egged in five days. Last Thursday, my car was covered in broken egg shells and all the other innerds of the egg. I had to get it detailed just to get the shells out of my driver's side handle. This morning, my car was egged so badly that my side mirror was broken, left shattered on the street. The estimate is that it will cost me $250 because they can't just replace the mirror, they have to replace the entire system of wiring, etc. So, because of mean people, I'm out hundreds of dollars and my paint is scratched and damaged because of the egg whites, yoke and shell.
If I weren't a Christian with a firm grasp on human nature and how unfair the world is because of sin, this might come as a total shock that someone would do something so cruel, many times over (this is really about the fifth egg attack in a year and a half). But I don't believe that people are naturally good, so this doesn't come as a surprise. I also believe in reaping what you sow, karma as some world systems would call it, and what may come as a total surprise is when the egger sees the quality of life diminish around him/her and and finds himself/herself as the brunt of random, cruel acts.
The nature of vandalism, terror and other crimes of the like is to attack under the radar, but cast enough suspicion on whom it might be so that the victim begins to accuse those whom he knows are probably at fault. However, since not enough evidence was left to support the claim, the vandal/terrorist throws hands up innocently and says, "How could you say that? You have no proof." And he's right. We see it in Israel, Iraq, the United States, and on and on. They're crazy makers, throwing punches in the dark and whining and crying intolerance when they get hit back. Thus victim becomes perp, while perp walks away smirking.
I know the game. I ain't playing. Count me out.
In the meantime, and on a global scale, I feel for Israel and all other countries dealing with issues of terror right now. Human nature is the same on a micro and macro level. On the basketball court, it's always the guy who retaliates who gets the penalty. On an international dispute level, it's always the defenders who are made to look like the bad guys. It's not changed for thousands of years on large and small scales, so I don't expect things in my own little personal world to be any different.
I am thankful that, in the words of Steven Curtis Chapman, "we are not home yet." I don't put my eggs in the world's basket, forgive the pun. I know there is a place where there is perfect justice and peace, it's just not here. Something to look forward to.
Posted by Portia at October 18, 2005 11:34 AM | TrackBack"The fifth egg attack in a year and a half..." I'm so sorry. I haven't been egged since high school over 30 years ago!
Funny isn't it? People starving in Africa, homeless in Pakistan, folks suffering in many places and Americans throw eggs at cars? Unbelievable!
I'm glad you're ok.
It's disturbing, isn't it? My house was eggged this last winter. I had just had a new expensive front door installed. The eggs froze and had to removed with chisels, and corroded both the door, and the paint on the gutters, where they had splattered.
And, to add insult to injury, I winced to remember that when I was in college - at a Christian College, no less - how we had such a great time egging cars and buses. A riot of fun.
That's the thing, see. Not everyone who does such things understands it as destructive and hurtful and, as you put it, mean. They - like my friends and me back in the day - most likely see it as a harmless prank, a practical joke. They are too thoughtless to even consider that it costs money to clean up, and causes real damage, and emotional hurt to the victims. I'm not defending any of it, nor excusing, only saying that it isn't always a simple case of meanness.
But in the end you are right: what goes around, comes around, as I found out this past winter.
Regards.
Posted by: Muzzy at October 19, 2005 08:02 AMFive eggings in a year and a half? Wow! That must be some bumper sticker you've got on your car!
It seems there are those around you who are emboldened by darkness, but remember Job says God "reveals mysteries from the darkness and brings the deep darkness into light." (12:22)
These folks have no idea of what's in store for them - "light shines in the darkness, and the darkness comprehends it not," (John 1:5), but what an opportunity for you! Perhaps, like Paul, you have been sent "'to open their eyes so they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and be given a place among God's people, who are set apart by faith in me.'" (Acts 26:18)
Go, Emily!
Posted by: Night Writer at October 19, 2005 09:23 AM
