Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Yours sincerely, yours faithfully, yours in anticipation, yours signed on the dotted line
Post number 35.
Enough woolly thought. When you see tradgedy on tv, don't turn away, or switch it off, ignoring it isn't acknowledging it.
I saw some disturbing stuff on tv. The tragic and devastating aftermath of a suicide bomber was broadcast on tv. There were wailing men, women and children and there were bodies, lying in literal pools of blood. It was gutwrenching the feeling I felt of their helplessness in a world that is full of people that can't find peace.
I felt sick.
This graphic broadcast of strewn bodies lying in a street and the injured survivors being taken for treatment made me realise, this is after the war, this is footage of after the war. This footage was more bloody, more shocking, more tragic than any footage of soldiers since the war had started. Even the words they used of innocent people on the news was saddening me more and more.
If it is so easy to make war, why do we find it such difficult task to find peace, to make peace and to have peace. We all have a heart and when we die, our loved ones grieve for us. We breath the same air and live amongst others everyday. It's hard to see eye to eye. It's hard to forget years of disaster, grief, tradgedy and feelings of hate, anger, vengeance. It's hard because perhaps peace is such a great thing that we do have to work to achieve it.
My day to day tasks involve small amounts of stress over seemingly meaningless events when you think of a global scale of famine, war, political disruption, civil unrest, and that all too cliched word "terrorist". I choose not be a terrorist. I also choose not hate people because of their colour, their religion, their beliefs. I am in a Western raised society where I learn these things but I have not been put in that kind of a situation where I have to decide, to take sides, to make a choice between myself and others. I want to have faith in people, that everyone, deep down, wants peace. I am not eight years old and trained to kill people, I'm not a freedom fighter struggling to get rid of corruption, I am not a person condemned for their religious beliefs.
It makes it a little harder for my belief in peace to not sound shallow and insignificant, empty and meaningless when I have been fortunate to be born into a family that cares for me, to have a loving relationship and to live in a city without war, without daily civil conflict on the street.
Please start small - don't lose faith in humans - we are all human and can stand strong, peaceful, happy and proud to be part of humankind. No more woolly thinking, give the power of peace to the people and so we can be a people for peace.
Sign your heart for peace.
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Enough woolly thought. When you see tradgedy on tv, don't turn away, or switch it off, ignoring it isn't acknowledging it.
I saw some disturbing stuff on tv. The tragic and devastating aftermath of a suicide bomber was broadcast on tv. There were wailing men, women and children and there were bodies, lying in literal pools of blood. It was gutwrenching the feeling I felt of their helplessness in a world that is full of people that can't find peace.
I felt sick.
This graphic broadcast of strewn bodies lying in a street and the injured survivors being taken for treatment made me realise, this is after the war, this is footage of after the war. This footage was more bloody, more shocking, more tragic than any footage of soldiers since the war had started. Even the words they used of innocent people on the news was saddening me more and more.
If it is so easy to make war, why do we find it such difficult task to find peace, to make peace and to have peace. We all have a heart and when we die, our loved ones grieve for us. We breath the same air and live amongst others everyday. It's hard to see eye to eye. It's hard to forget years of disaster, grief, tradgedy and feelings of hate, anger, vengeance. It's hard because perhaps peace is such a great thing that we do have to work to achieve it.
My day to day tasks involve small amounts of stress over seemingly meaningless events when you think of a global scale of famine, war, political disruption, civil unrest, and that all too cliched word "terrorist". I choose not be a terrorist. I also choose not hate people because of their colour, their religion, their beliefs. I am in a Western raised society where I learn these things but I have not been put in that kind of a situation where I have to decide, to take sides, to make a choice between myself and others. I want to have faith in people, that everyone, deep down, wants peace. I am not eight years old and trained to kill people, I'm not a freedom fighter struggling to get rid of corruption, I am not a person condemned for their religious beliefs.
It makes it a little harder for my belief in peace to not sound shallow and insignificant, empty and meaningless when I have been fortunate to be born into a family that cares for me, to have a loving relationship and to live in a city without war, without daily civil conflict on the street.
Please start small - don't lose faith in humans - we are all human and can stand strong, peaceful, happy and proud to be part of humankind. No more woolly thinking, give the power of peace to the people and so we can be a people for peace.
Sign your heart for peace.
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// posted by Sooki Monster @ 11:24 PM 
