I happen to see some news footage of the atrocites in Africa over the weekend. All of the attacks on villages..the violence..the brutality..the rapes..the sad deaths..the ethnic cleansing of these people. Its depressing. An interviewer was talking to some kids who had lost their families. One boy responded with.."nobody knows whats going to happen tomorrow." That really stuck with me. Actually..it was like someone stoled my breath. You would think these kids should be thinking about their whole life ahead of them..and for them..they can only think of "tomorrow". He came across as trying to say..he doesn't want the world to be a bad place. He was trying to be optomistic about things. Truth is..the boy was only saying what most of us are feeling about the world.
Let this be a reminder of not taking for granted what we have in life. The proverbial..if you think you have it bad..someone has it worse..always true. I can't help to sometimes reflect on the realities of the world. Nobody speaks more trues than a child. To hear or see it from a child's perspective is always enlightening. Children always want and expect the world to be a good and positive place. Nobody..especially children..should have to live in a climate of fear everyday. My heart aches for them.
"time is a river..a silent icy river..pulls us all..running deep..deep and fast enough to get lost down in the flow..thrashing around..tiny lives mean everything"
Peace out my HALEYUNNS!
Hale my man, there are anywhere between a dozen to two dozen countries in the Motherland that are so tormented and filled with corruption, murder and unrest...they are little hells on earth.
ReplyDeleteThe countries (particularly the Congo, Sudan, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Zimbabwe, etc.) there have just received butt-kickings - whether from outside forces or self-inflicted - for the last five to eight centuries...I would love to see more justice and cooperative democracy there before I have to punch out my ticket...