THE COMPARISON
Throughout the life of every human being exist the desire to compare ones achievements with that of another. Right from the stage of of conception to the time a woman gives birth to a child the world critically sets up system and procedures where by one child can be compared to another. So what we realise at birth is the expectation that, the new born baby is healthy and sound. If another is born prematured we take it as a premise to analyse the state of health of the child immediately or in the near future.
In some parts of the globe children are expected to cry the moment they are born. Sometime ago the absence of this signifiers the presence of some abnormality. Later in life this could become part of the child's story. Then comes the various growth stages in life. We will look forward to who is bigger than the other, stronger than the other, who falls ill and those that hardly experience any form of illness. The height of this comparison is who has made it...
In some parts of the globe children are expected to cry the moment they are born. Sometime ago the absence of this signifiers the presence of some abnormality. Later in life this could become part of the child's story. Then comes the various growth stages in life. We will look forward to who is bigger than the other, stronger than the other, who falls ill and those that hardly experience any form of illness. The height of this comparison is who has made it...