'An eye for an eye makes the whole word blind' M K Gandhi
'Whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also' Bible
Quotes after quotes can be written on patience, forgiveness ,tolerance , positive thinking etc. As normal earthlings leading normal lives ( some of us, that is! ), how much can we bring into our daily lives .
Frankly speaking or rather questioning, haven't we grown immune to these disturbing images from across the globe?? Since Hitlers time , holocaust images and images of concentration camps have been shocking the world in horror !! Images which continued to question the faith in humanity did not cease with those. It came under the names Hiroshima- Nagasaki bombings , World War 2 ; still considered as the deadliest conflict in human history, invasion of Kuwait and now (not really!!) it is the innocent lifeless faces in GAZA!! Puts one in a helpless emotion lacking colour .
At times i feel these little ones are luckier than their previous generations, who have been dragging their lives through this suffering for years . Blessed are these souls who have departed to a safer, happier space . Let me hope that they came here for a short while to clear off some karmic debt after which they have returned home .
These are ways of reasoning and finding peace when earthly answers and justifications cease to make sense .
I dont know what it takes to stop the atrocities across the globe, really !! It touches me and it hurts me and i just pour it out here. Below are the words of an Israeli poet and peace activist Dan Almagor from his poem "In My Shoes,” . He describes how his acquaintance with Walid, an employee in his local grocery store, changed his perception of Palestinians:
For some people a Palestinian is Yasir Arafat,
A youth throwing a Molotov cocktail at a bus,
A boy hurling taunts at soldiers and cursing their mothers.
When you say “Palestinian” to me, I think of Walid,
The only Palestinian I know and who knows me....
(Almagor had given Walid his second hand clothes for relatives in his village including an old pair of shoes which he expresses in his poem as below)
How strange to think that someone, somewhere
in Walid’s village near Nablus,
Is wearing my shoes now.
Once, not so very long ago,
I was in his shoes .
So, this is proof that there are beautiful minds on either sides of the missiles , shells and rockets. I hope that the numbers increase to its population size . Hoping for a better tomorrow , not just for GAZA, also the entire world !!!
'Whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also' Bible
Quotes after quotes can be written on patience, forgiveness ,tolerance , positive thinking etc. As normal earthlings leading normal lives ( some of us, that is! ), how much can we bring into our daily lives .
Frankly speaking or rather questioning, haven't we grown immune to these disturbing images from across the globe?? Since Hitlers time , holocaust images and images of concentration camps have been shocking the world in horror !! Images which continued to question the faith in humanity did not cease with those. It came under the names Hiroshima- Nagasaki bombings , World War 2 ; still considered as the deadliest conflict in human history, invasion of Kuwait and now (not really!!) it is the innocent lifeless faces in GAZA!! Puts one in a helpless emotion lacking colour .
At times i feel these little ones are luckier than their previous generations, who have been dragging their lives through this suffering for years . Blessed are these souls who have departed to a safer, happier space . Let me hope that they came here for a short while to clear off some karmic debt after which they have returned home .
These are ways of reasoning and finding peace when earthly answers and justifications cease to make sense .
I dont know what it takes to stop the atrocities across the globe, really !! It touches me and it hurts me and i just pour it out here. Below are the words of an Israeli poet and peace activist Dan Almagor from his poem "In My Shoes,” . He describes how his acquaintance with Walid, an employee in his local grocery store, changed his perception of Palestinians:
For some people a Palestinian is Yasir Arafat,
A youth throwing a Molotov cocktail at a bus,
A boy hurling taunts at soldiers and cursing their mothers.
When you say “Palestinian” to me, I think of Walid,
The only Palestinian I know and who knows me....
(Almagor had given Walid his second hand clothes for relatives in his village including an old pair of shoes which he expresses in his poem as below)
How strange to think that someone, somewhere
in Walid’s village near Nablus,
Is wearing my shoes now.
Once, not so very long ago,
I was in his shoes .
So, this is proof that there are beautiful minds on either sides of the missiles , shells and rockets. I hope that the numbers increase to its population size . Hoping for a better tomorrow , not just for GAZA, also the entire world !!!
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| Womens Internation League for Peace and Freedom US , on GAZA |
