Monday, February 13, 2006

War

School has just begun and once again formed a routine to my life in its own unique way...

Learning about the World Wars has got me hecked up about war itself...Yes... I should not dwell in the past... However, this crutial event is an inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty which has unfortunately caused the whole world a great deal of suffering and shere torment, economically and politically... Even the mere thought itself is bloodcurling...battles, bloodsheds, conflicts, enmity, struggle... All terms associated with this brutal war... It has petrified, terrified and stupefied us all...

Wars not only causes economical and political breakdowns; racism, prejudice and sexism often comes along within the package of War... This war, this crutial battle has brought us all into depressions and breakdowns... These tensions of racisms, prejudices and sexisms have plagued our worlds since then... Despite the fact that the war is over, the effects of it still lingers among us... Reluctant to vacate the hearts and minds of (most) of our young men today... The French are (sometimes) still discriminated by the English, the Japs are (sometimes) still shun by the Chinese, the Natives are still... well, Natives... Women are still often underestimated despite their major contribution in the Wars which has gone by wordless, unsaid, unstated and concealed...

War has undoubtedly brought our once peaceful and harmonious world hatred, tension, anxiety and restlessness amongst countries and country-men... Amongst various races... Amongst men and women... and most of all Amongst this World of Ours... quotes of wisdom regarding senseless Wars :

Either war is obsolete or men are (R.Buckminster Fuller)
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent. (Isaac Asimov)
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.(Jeanette Rankin)
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. (Gandhi)
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.(Gandhi)

1 comment:

alex said...

An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind... This quote is so simple yet so meaningful and true...