Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Part of an email from a friend after the suicide attack which killed the Deputy Chief-of-Staff of the Sri Lankan army.
The violence started out in the north, the most sensitive area in the country. Within the span of a few months it moved its way up to Colombo... the land of the elite and the moderates... people who don't want war, but are too used to its threat to run away from it. People who love their land more than they love themselves, their children, friends, lovers, homes. People who are reluctant to accept the possibility of being destroyed completely and to prepare for it.
The violence started out in the north, the most sensitive area in the country. Within the span of a few months it moved its way up to Colombo... the land of the elite and the moderates... people who don't want war, but are too used to its threat to run away from it. People who love their land more than they love themselves, their children, friends, lovers, homes. People who are reluctant to accept the possibility of being destroyed completely and to prepare for it.
I wonder what makes people live and be the way they are. War is a terrible thing and yet most of us who say so know nothing of it. We don't and hopefully never will understand the full ramification of the word, the process. We can only sit behind television screens or crumpled sheets of newsprint and imagine the permanence of its misery. War is a terrible thing, and yet... nobody seems to really know it. But what is certain is the fact that the human race is cursed to kill itself, if not by war then by the lingering persistence of its pain.
Pessimistic? I don't think so. Sounds closer to the truth to me...
Comments:
i do not and will never understand the complexities of war..but one thing is for sure..its all about selfishness! selfish for urself..for some community..some region..some country. which is fine in itself..but not if its at the expense of ruining others! when we learn to make the kind of peace on a macro level that we make with ourselves..we will become better ppl then!
but DO we make peace with ourselves? i dont think so, atleast not too many do. most simply brush the issue under the rug for as long as they can avoid it... but i do see wat u mean anurag
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At June 27, 2006 1:29 am, 
Hitchcock thought
Hitchcock thoughti do not and will never understand the complexities of war..but one thing is for sure..its all about selfishness! selfish for urself..for some community..some region..some country. which is fine in itself..but not if its at the expense of ruining others! when we learn to make the kind of peace on a macro level that we make with ourselves..we will become better ppl then!
At June 27, 2006 1:41 am, 
thought
thoughtbut DO we make peace with ourselves? i dont think so, atleast not too many do. most simply brush the issue under the rug for as long as they can avoid it... but i do see wat u mean anurag
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