Thoughts of a pessimist

This story involves very simple logic. Even a 5th grader would understand it. A and B killed a man. They were considered as heroes by their villagers for that. But they categorically denied the murder charges to shield the allegations from neighboring villages. After some time, their priorities became different and went apart. Alas! B became a “traitor” overnight.

You might ask “how?”. Just throw a stone at a random bush. At least a handful of blokes who call themselves “patriots” will jump out. They know “how”. Now back to the story.

While A and B were going on opposing paths, B said that A was the mastermind behind the murder. This raised the eyebrows of neighboring villages who were trying hard to prove murder allegations but unable to find a clue. But this lone statement was not enough to prove anything. Fired up by B’s statement, A charged B for “betraying” their village. Aha.. here jumps the cat out of the bag.

How do you betray someone for something that never said to be happened? For that you have to throw another stone at a random bush.

After several rounds of allegations and finger pointing games, it was indirectly proved that the “murder” did happen and both A and B are more or less responsible for that. Had A denied B’s initial statement and shrugged off the allegations, this story would have been different. But A was stupid enough to panic like a thief who was noticed by the residents.

Now B is in A’s custody and people who made them heroes several months ago have split and are clashing with each other. There are handful of people for whom neither A nor B were heroes and never backed their acts which made them labeled as “traitors”. Some of them are quietly watching this drama of “patriots” vs “ex-patriots”. One of them thought of writing this post.