The wars we fight

In today’s world people fight with their neighboring countries, their neighboring states and cities. People wage wars on trivial issues like land. If you want to wage a war wage it against drugs, wage it against pollution, wage a war against cancer, and wage a war to stop all meaningless wars.

In my lifetime I have seen the Israel-Palestine war, the India Pakistan war, the iraq war, the lankan conflict, not to forget the afghan war, the gulf war and the nam. Many of these wars are trivial to the point where some stupid trigger happy bloke decided today let me sacrifice a few hundred lives. If only the vanity could be seen by our dear politicians.

There is a sensitive topic of war against terrorism. You have to understand that a war against terrorism will only instigate more wars. The terrorists will be infuriated they will attack someone; we will attack them in retaliation. This will be a nonstop ping pong game until the hand playing it gets tired. As one man aptly put it “An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.”

So should we not fight terrorism? No, we should, we should fight it with humanity, with compassion, with education and awareness. If you actually understand the motives behind these terrorists, most of them feel they are heroes giving lives and taking lives for a cause much greater than themselves.

We need to educate people to what terrorists are, and how they destroy the fabric of the society. They are not heroes but fools. If we can achieve this we would have won the war.Wars like these which test your humanity and patience are always more difficult to fight.

"In Life we can either win or lose, there is no such thing as participation."

Time for a change

What makes the humans different from other species?

I could take a 3 part series, talk about the different species on this earth, move around to possible existence of martians. For the sake of your mental well being i shall spare these for other whole posts.

Getting to the point quickly, I feel the difference is our ability to change and make changes. We have the ability to change the future for ourselves and our future generations. The change I am talking about here is not the run of the mill, fairy tales selling the new novels by the dozen.(read the twilight saga here)

The right people doing the right things will be a major consideration here, especially when it comes to people with power. We cannot change ourselves if we do not see the mistake we made. Turning a blind eye and having confidence is one thing. To have the diffidence and being ignorant will get us nowhere. The whole society is a fabric held together by many threads. Threads of fraternity, religion, neighborhood, money, power, etc. The most important thread of them all is humanity. Without that we would just perish.

When you actually think about it, this is what is missing the most in today’s world. We have schools teaching us to be great politicians, great mathematicians, great economists, great scientists, great doctors but I don’t see a school teaching us to be great human beings.

When the recession hit the US all I thought was "Ok, so now what is going to happen to my job. How can I make progress in such a bad economy?" This might be basic human instinct for survival or maybe my pure selfishness; you can be the judge of that.

I never thought of what is going to happen to the millions of people in US, what will happen to their jobs, their families. How emotionally distraught they would be looking at their economy in turmoil, with an uncertain future. Once this thought sprung to my mind I felt bad, not for the US citizens or myself but for the society.

Are we this helpless as a society that we will not help someone in their time of need? Will we take up any opportunities to seek our progress even at the stake of others misery?

"In a world of angels and demons which one are you."