Peace and tranquility elude most people today. They can’t sleep peacefully. They can’t relax. Calm is a word that has lately been lacking from their consciousness. But how can they? What with the killings and shootings we hear of, child prostitution, floods and tsunamis which affect thousands, starving nations, mass layoffs, huge corporations closing down, wars spurred by religions, wildfires dislocating hundreds…
I can go on and on but then I’d fill up pages instead of lines. I am trying to show you that there is so much bad news going on in this blue planet that peace and tranquility are words seldom used, much less felt. How long will those two remain, like a slick fish slipping away from a child’s hands? Millions remain indifferent to the plight of this world. They can go on with their lives concerned only about personal matters and are emotionally blind about the news they see on TV. Perhaps, yes, they can react; they might even cry when they see sad stories or shocking video clips of dying children—but the emotions linger only for a few minutes more. After a while the people go inside their bedrooms and sleep soundly. How? What has happened to the human soul? Is apathy finally taking its toll?
I can go on and on but then I’d fill up pages instead of lines. I am trying to show you that there is so much bad news going on in this blue planet that peace and tranquility are words seldom used, much less felt. How long will those two remain, like a slick fish slipping away from a child’s hands? Millions remain indifferent to the plight of this world. They can go on with their lives concerned only about personal matters and are emotionally blind about the news they see on TV. Perhaps, yes, they can react; they might even cry when they see sad stories or shocking video clips of dying children—but the emotions linger only for a few minutes more. After a while the people go inside their bedrooms and sleep soundly. How? What has happened to the human soul? Is apathy finally taking its toll?
“Laughing Water"
1 comment:
Nice blog!I look at this and it lulls me to that zen-like feeling where I'm on the top of the world,peaceful,tranquil and content.And yet what with the pressures of my recently finished final exams, I feel up to my neck with fright and the calm disappears. My first thought was if we face the hardships in life, did we get so used to it that we could sleep well at night- without really caring?But now I realized, it's not that we got used to it but we block it in able to live a decent life-one without guilt even if we care.My take, it's not apathy, it's living WITH or WITHOUT a conscience. Just my two-cents in haha!
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