The Beast Within

Another wife missing, another family devastated, another husband claiming innocence. I ask myself how a person can murder the one he or she was once so in love with.

There are many times in a marriage when you are so enraged you want to smack your husband or wife but you don't. Because your self control won't allow it. How angry and out of control must a person become to actually take a life? If you are enraged because your spouse is leaving you then, by murdering them, you really are losing them forever.

From what I discern from news reports, most men kill their wives to exert control but most women seem to kill their husbands for financial gain. This is the beast within us that we either hold in check or allow free rein.

It's frightening to think that the beast lies within us all and is just waiting for the opportune moment to show it's face. My own beast surfaced only once in my life and that was when a woman made a threatening move towards my young daughter. The beast rose full force out of me and that woman is very lucky she wasn't within reaching distance.

We all possess the capacity for violence to appear and take control of our actions. It is just buried deeper in some of us but there all the same. It's much the same as attempting to domesticate a wild animal. You can get to the point where you are able to cuddle and pet it but just throw it a chunk of meat and see how the wildness emerges. Deep inside we are as feral as that wild animal.

In the case of the missing wife, it appears that her husband lost control and we socialized human beings can't allow that to go unpunished. We all need to be reminded to keep our beasts in check, don't we?