Dear people who have no experience of what living under terror feels like, Please do not tell other people how to live or die, do not compare your lives to the lives of those who do, do not stop appreciating the simple things in life like strolling to the local shop to replenish the milk when you run out, like being woken up by a late night text message or the bloody alarm clock that went off before you were ready. Do not ever under- appreciate the fact that your loved ones, friends and neighbours are not pulled out of their daily routines in a matter of minutes to protect you & yours at great costs to them and theirs. Pray for your troops who are fighting a hopeless war far away from your back yard in order that you can have the freedom that you do. For those of us who are blissfully unaware of military training and procedures, let us have the humility to keep our uneducated opinions on how to end a war to ourselves...especially if we have the luxury of not ever having to hold a weapon or worse use one ourselves. Let us be united in the opinion that human losses of any kind is an awful fact of war and try to spread a message to the world that no good can come out of such things. Let our eyes be open to the truth of a situation and not swayed by biased media reporting of something we cannot comprehend as the ideologies involved are so beyond our own comprehension of life and our values it is impossible to make sense of. May you never have to be called to your kids school to deal with your child who is in shock after a missile attack meant the entire school were run to bombshelters in the space of a minute. May you never know what it is to hear the sirens blare in the middle of the night & before your brain has even realised what is happening you find yourself running to the rooms where your children sleep, before you are halfway through the house you hear the deafening booms of rockets landing. May you never feel torn in two knowing that one of your kids is safe in your arms but the others who are only a few minutes drive away, may as well be the otherside of the country at that moment in time. May you never know what it is to shake from head to foot with fear, from the hoplessness of it and the fact that i do not know if this is to be a barrage or a few lucky pot shots These are just some of the feelings that i have felt while knowing all the safety drills & safe areas/bombshelters nearby & i cannot imagine living on the other side of the fence where i am told by the enemy to evacuate by the next day but my own rulers terrorise me to stay...because whether you want to believe it, or whether your brain can comprehend it...this is their reality. I count myself lucky as so many more people on both sides or the borders have it so much worse. So let us not sit in the comfort of our homes and judge a situation we have no comprehension of...if what you see bothers you....take a stand but do not add fuel to what is already an inferno...educate yourselves to facts and not that which is screamed the loudest. In the age of technology & information for those who have free access to the internet (and by free i mean the government does not limit what you are exposed to as many governments across this little globe of ours do) Empathise, try to see the unbiased truth & spread the hope that things are changing & be a part of speeding up the process. I will not let those who have been brought up to believe in hate and who live an uneducated, unprogressive hate filled life change my values but i will try to make a difference in whatever small way i can in the hope that others who want to see a change in what seems like an endless situation, will help push this snowball til it grows.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:12:03 +0000
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