I keep questioning and i'm filled with anger and outrage................... "How is it possible for any human being to just go on a rampage and kill people, that too children between the ages of 6 and 12 who are in school?" It is beyond any reason!! What sort of mindset does it take to march in, aim your guns at kids and just shoot them - point blank????? What kind of conditioning is it that these gunmen din't once think of their actions before pulling out children who were hiding under desks only to kill them????? What sort of a sick mind can claim that the killing of these children meant 'their mission accomplished'????? Which faith says that killing and massacre are the only routes to God?????
And then when i think of the children, of their families, their friends, i feel numb...................I shudder to think of the thoughts that were in the minds of yesterdays victims, did they think of their parents or were they too stunned and was it so sudden that they couldn't even react? The Army School at Peshawar will never ever be a 'school' again, it can never be. It will be a sad, heart wrenching reminder of the annihilation that humans are being subject to by their own species!!!
What kind of a world are we creating for our children? What is the legacy that we are leaving behind? Do we even know that we belong to the same species, the Homo Sapiens??? Even animals spare their own kind, are protective of their own..............and we call ourselves the most progressive and intelligent of the living things??? We harm each other, sorry, harm seems too mild a word at this point.........we kill each other, no, we slaughter each other, we have zero tolerance for each other and we claim to be living in a modern world???
It's as if the word tolerance doesn't exist any more. Be it any place, any aspect of life - tolerance is no longer an option. If somebody tries to overtake while driving, it is about ensuring that he isn't allowed to. If somebody has made a mistake, apologies no longer hold any meaning. If somebody does not get what they want, then anger, verbal abuse, physical abuse, are the only answers. And this is true for every age. When it is children who show such behaviours, we recognize it as stubbornness, having a mind of his/her own. However, it is a form of intolerance.
We are in the so called 21st century. Didn't we assume that this was going to be THE century - with the inventions, the innovations, the new policies, the visionary leaders etc etc........
Instead, what do we have? We have a 21st century which has killings featured everyday, countries still fighting countries, leaders who only promote their own - be it people or beliefs, markets driven by the single largest motto of profits, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. The list is endless.
We really don't care any more do we? All that matters is me, my thoughts, my beliefs, my likes, my dislikes and about how can i get everyone to serve me along these lines.
Where does this end? Will it ever? Or will it end when there are no more left to slaughter????
And then when i think of the children, of their families, their friends, i feel numb...................I shudder to think of the thoughts that were in the minds of yesterdays victims, did they think of their parents or were they too stunned and was it so sudden that they couldn't even react? The Army School at Peshawar will never ever be a 'school' again, it can never be. It will be a sad, heart wrenching reminder of the annihilation that humans are being subject to by their own species!!!
What kind of a world are we creating for our children? What is the legacy that we are leaving behind? Do we even know that we belong to the same species, the Homo Sapiens??? Even animals spare their own kind, are protective of their own..............and we call ourselves the most progressive and intelligent of the living things??? We harm each other, sorry, harm seems too mild a word at this point.........we kill each other, no, we slaughter each other, we have zero tolerance for each other and we claim to be living in a modern world???
It's as if the word tolerance doesn't exist any more. Be it any place, any aspect of life - tolerance is no longer an option. If somebody tries to overtake while driving, it is about ensuring that he isn't allowed to. If somebody has made a mistake, apologies no longer hold any meaning. If somebody does not get what they want, then anger, verbal abuse, physical abuse, are the only answers. And this is true for every age. When it is children who show such behaviours, we recognize it as stubbornness, having a mind of his/her own. However, it is a form of intolerance.
We are in the so called 21st century. Didn't we assume that this was going to be THE century - with the inventions, the innovations, the new policies, the visionary leaders etc etc........
Instead, what do we have? We have a 21st century which has killings featured everyday, countries still fighting countries, leaders who only promote their own - be it people or beliefs, markets driven by the single largest motto of profits, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. The list is endless.
We really don't care any more do we? All that matters is me, my thoughts, my beliefs, my likes, my dislikes and about how can i get everyone to serve me along these lines.
Where does this end? Will it ever? Or will it end when there are no more left to slaughter????
