The ones that walked away

After reading the story of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” I was first shocked at the child in the basement and the second that people happiness came from the child every day. While the child was beaten and torment other people lives were amazing full with happiness. To be honest when reading this story I couldn’t think about anything else but Jesus and how the sacrifice he made so everyone can be happy and have the life they want. I guess when I was reading this story over and over again I kept on getting different views or perspectives. Ideas popped up in my mind about third world countries and poverty in Africa or even city here in the United States. This story raised a lot of questions for me like why didn’t the ones that walked away help the child, they saw that the child was hurting and they didn’t do anything? And also why did the ones that saw the child deprived just keep living in their beautiful city? How could someone just keep doing life knowing the child is being tormented like that? I have tried to put myself in both situations thinking would I just keep doing life or would I just walk away. I think the easiest thing would be just keep doing life. I mean, you are in city full of happiness let’s just let the child be our sacrifice. If I do that do I tell the child thank you for being sacrifice because after all he’s taking out pain? Kind of like Jesus took the pain on the cross. Or how the little countries of Haiti and Dominican republic and many more sacrifice their resorts for us so that we can be happy. Their again with that that’s how they make a living. There’s a phrase that is said a lot No pain No Gain. The child took the pain for the people, so that the people had the gain. Wow stop think about that Jesus took our pain so we could gain heaven and eternal life. But as always after writing a post in class the whole meaning of the story will be different and I will think different or be open to other perspectives.