The Words Are Sticking in my Throat
July 1st, 2007It isn’t often that I find myself struggling to opine but this is one of those times. As Britain struggles to deal with suicide attacks, incompetent terrorists and the dismantling of terror cells, I’d simply like to state that I wish that country and those people well and hope they find safety and capture the terrorists sooner rather than later and before much damage is done.
Watching these events occur, I think it such a shame that there are people on this Earth who don’t exercise peace more often. It’s disturbing, too, knowing that it can happen anywhere, to anyone, for any reason, all because someone doesn’t look forward to tomorrow anymore. I, for one, look forward to tomorrow, and I think it such a shame that some don’t, as evidenced by the bomb-attempts in London, the Benoit massacre, the destruction of the environment for money, the disregard for the working poor, unfair wages and all the other events we read about in the newspaper every morning.
I am, like most, outraged by the events in London, but as I think about people dying and people killing and people surviving and people suffering I begin to think about the sheer number of tragedies that are born of each tragedy. That someone will lose their mother, and someone will lose their innocence, and someone will lose their home, their security, their life and their freedom. And I can’t help but wonder why some people would give up tomorrow, and someone else’s.
Each and every one of us should strive to make life worth living, for ourselves and each other, and I for one will continue to do just that and hope that more people join me. I have nothing particularly political to add.