Countless Shades of Grey

All of us have grown up on a generous dose of fairy tales. We have been acquainted and regaled with the stories of good gaining victory over the evil. A child is never taught what lies between black and white, the thin line that treads between the good and the bad, and how as grown ups we have to deal with shades of grey all over. How we wish to grow up when we are kids and how we yearn to be back to those olden-golden days once we know the price for growing up.
Certain moments of your life take away the beauty and joy of living and loving and makes one think about the entire saga that life is. A conversation casually started with a close one turned out to be an eye opener, when i was informed that the lady in question has been harassed at a family event by a very respectable senior member of the extended family known for his righteous ways. As she went on about how she was shocked, taken aback, furious and victimized all at the same time, i too felt a surge of anger swept through me and kept on wondering about it. 
Another friend confided how she has been stalked and approached by a male relative with malicious intentions until she blocked him from social networking site and completely ignored his phone calls, that this entire thing was put to an end. Both of them have loving, caring and doting husbands yet they did not shared this with them, thinking how or what to say and what would be their reaction. Many a times keeping up the family name becomes a major concern why so many of us simply choose to ignore such harassment. 
Another thought that keeps troubling me is why do men who indulge in such behavior do so? Why do people of repute, who are highly educated, highly affluent and well placed, belonging to respectable families behave like insanes? What is it that drives them to this? Sadist pleasure? Sick mentality?
And how long can we choose to be silent? Had i been in the place of these women how would i have reacted? I am also a part and parcel of the same social fabric as them, how different would my reaction be?  The entire humanity witnesses numerous crimes against women each moment and my silence is one of them!  

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