It’s a chilling day if the child
who should have been taken by its family to the nearby mosque is instead being
taken, in pieces, to the nearby mass burial site. It’s Eid after all, isn’t it?
Oh, you heartless Israel.
It’s a chilling day when few men
decide to gang rape two sisters and then hang them on a tree and the local
authority is clueless.
Oh, you insensitive Indians,
why can’t you respect your women?
It’s a chilling day if children
are being brutally shot by a crazy maniac and the law is helpless day after day.
Oh, you Stupid, Stupid American arm’s law. Doesn’t America has any common sense?
It’s a chilling day when you hear
stories about Buddhist monks being a part of a communal riot.
What on earth is happening in Sri
Lanka? Aren’t Buddhists the most peaceful people on earth?
It’s a chilling day when any
country threatens another country with a nuclear strike!
I mean who does that? But then North
Korea is filled with completely insane people.
It’s a chilling day when a 7 year
old girl and her baby sister are killed in a mob riot over the accusations of
blasphemy on one of her community members.
Now don’t you start with Pakistan,
the country is a lost cause.
It’s a chilling day when someone
abducts 300 school going innocent girls, trade them and then go on to use
religion as excuse to rape their own country women.
As disgusting as it sounds, it’s Nigeria.
That’s why they are probably not even called a 3rd world country,
isn’t it?
It’s a chilling day when some people
get in a car and goes on a shooting spree killing each and every one they see
just because they recently “won” the town after a bloody battle.
ISIS in Iraq simply has no values;
they can’t be men of religion.
I don’t know why I wrote what I
wrote, may be because I am equally fed up with the reactions as I am with the incidents.
As a part of the group who takes pride in calling itself humans, I am deeply aghast
by the lack of simple humanity.
We are not helping when we are “Like”ing
these on facebook, neither are we helping when we are retweeting news of these
ghastly incidents, nor are we helping when we are writing blogs about it (like this
one).
Yes, obviously we all are
spreading the message, what can we do more? Well, we can’t get into army and start
saving the innocents in Gaza (that will only add to the killings after all), we
can’t go and fight the government of “US of A” (or maybe ‘we’ can), we can’t go
and fight the Boko Haram in Nigeria, we can’t go and take a stand for a women
in a far out Indian village.
We can’t change the past, neither
can we immediately change the present but we sure can be part of the change for
the future generations.
Let us ask ourselves today, why
are some of the things that are happening are actually happening? What are the
actions that have led to this horrifying present of ours and then let’s ask ourselves
why can’t WE play a part in a better tomorrow? Our generation isn’t getting any
more peaceful tomorrow. More the dialogue of world peace, faster is our
generation slipping into the darkness. A very basic strand is missing from the
DNA of our society. A common man has never had so much power and yet has never felt
so powerless. It’s time for us to realise that we too have a part to play in our
future.
Today, when a 10yr old girl is
warning her 6yr old sister not to go off at night because something might
happen to her, we have to ask ourselves what more can we do than updating our
statuses about “when that 6yr old sister of her didn’t listen to her elder
sibling”.
I am no one to tell you what you
should be doing; it’s your work to figure that out. But let’s take a pledge, decide,
stand up, and do something for a better tomorrow!!! Something at least!!!
May be, just maybe, when most of
us are doing something, we finally have that better future.
