This is the question I’ve been pondering over the past few weeks. It is also the subject we discuss most often in our house. Where is all this leading to? What the hell is wrong with people? Why are things going so BAD for everyone? Of course…no answers to any of these. Just more news reports of killings, murders, wars, famine, poverty, disease….every second of the day. It is totally out of control.
People are being killed in so-called ”religious wars”. In my opinion, a God or god calling for blood or human sacrifice is not a god worthy of worship. I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be offensive, but honestly…..children beheaded, women killed….and I am NOT only talking about certain countries in certain desert lands, far away. This is happening every minute, perhaps every second and sometimes, people are simply killed for the ”fun” of it. In our ”beloved” country people have been killed for the shoes on their feet or their cellphones….families have been murdered, held at gunpoint, women raped, children tortured…for the clothes on their backs. I’m NOT joking. These days you do not have to be offensive, you don’t have to challenge people, you are a walking corpse wherever you are. It would seem that people have lost that basic feeling of compassion, of empathy, of basic respect of human life….so I’ve been wondering, what is the point of it all? Are we all going to wake up one day….dead? Or is there some light at the end of this tunnel?
Sometimes I get very angry at these pointless, bloody sacrifices that happen all across the world; there is simply no proper reason at all. Negotiations between political leaders…..what negotiations? Does it really change anything? People just close their eyes to the truth and pretend nothing is wrong. We go about business every day….without thinking that somewhere on earth, someone is fighting for his or her right to live AT THAT VERY MOMENT. Until it happens to us personally, I don’t think we will ever be able to comprehend these truly horrific and ruthless actions of strangers.
Humanity is not known for its kindness anymore; we, who think we are all such a very ”advanced”, such an ”enlightened” species….what a joke. We are a cruel and heartless bunch of monsters, if you ask me. Example: the other day my daughter in law brought a kitten to our house. Said little sweetheart was found in a parking lot in town where men were throwing rocks at her. A kitten, for goodness sake! What did that poor mite ever do to anyone! But then, in the work I do, people throw away their own flesh and blood…. Example: a while back I visited an orphanage where the lady in charge told me the harrowing story of her first orphaned child. She said that children were playing soccer in a field by her house when they came running to her, screaming something about hearing a strange sound among the bushes and rocks. She went to investigate and, in a hole, covered with a slab of cement, she found a newborn infant. She took the baby, a boy, home and, as it was week-end and social services was closed, she kept him with her, feeding him diluted cows’ milk. That little boy is now 16 years old and still live with her in the orphanage. With my own daughter I had a similar experience….she was taken for a ”test-run” and dumped at the age of 3. She was, according to her biological family, ”in the way of their social life”. So you see, we do not understand the value of human life anymore, we do not nurture anymore, we throw away, we kill what doesn’t die….and still I wonder ”why”….why do people, living people, find it in their hearts to kill, anything, animals, humans, whatever.
Is that what we’ve become? What is it going to take for us to wake up and see the truth? Human life, nature, everything has value, has a place in this world. When are we going to understand that we are on this earth because we have a responsibility? That responsibility is NOT to kill, NOT to abuse natural resources, but to nurture it, to take care of it.
I know I am not a politician, I am a simple housewife in a small country in the South (many people don’t even know where my country is)…..but if I, undereducated perhaps, a little silly, sometimes a little nuts, can SEE this, why can’t the people that rule the world see it? Or do they see it and choose blindness?
I don’t want to spoil anyone’s day here, but people, I see trouble looming…and it is already too far gone, I think, it’s coming and we cannot stop it anymore. We, as a human race, have managed to doom ourselves to the horrid lives we live now. We should not sit back and blame other people, we should stand up and take responsibility for this. Because, dear friends, I think the end is closer than we ever thought it was. Not, perhaps, the end foretold in any Bible or even that Armageddon will be caused by an asteroid strike or alien invasion….it will be caused by US! We are our own enemy and if we don’t wake up sooner rather than later…..well, it is close to midnight on the last day of earth as we know it, closer than you or I can imagine.
So, reading the above quote, I think it’s about time that we all start to carefully consider before we say something bad or think something terrible about another person, because that simple act of ”bad talk” and ”evil thinking” was exactly the thing that started this trouble in the first place. It became our destiny and, I’m afraid that it is not sure that there is hope for us anymore, I think humankind is lost already….all we can do now, is pray, pray for absolution, pray for a miracle and hope, hope that somewhere, someone will rise up to become a leader that can finally show us the way.
And if at all possible, my friends, let that person NOT be just a single man, woman or child, but let us, for once, act as a species….let us stand together. I’m putting forth this call, which, given the little influence I have in the world, may be futile, but I damn well am trying! Come fellow humans, it is time to put aside our petty bloody differences and fight for our own survival.
LET THE CHANGE START WITH YOU, NOW, TODAY! Don’t say I didn’t warn you! Don’t say I didn’t ask you! Stop waiting for someone else to do the work….get up from your couch (mr/ms Potato-head) and get getting!
LET IT BE YOU!
This One Life 