I’ll admit- I’m not the most experienced of people. In fact, I have most of my life left to live and most of the experiences a normal person has left to experience. But I believe in learning from other people’s success and their mistakes too. And what I’ve seen happening throughtout the world is not a sign of progress but digression into barbarism. For all our technological advance and scientific progress, as human beings, we are all, for the greater part, still living in the dark ages.
One day, a suicide bomber blows up himself and many other innocent in some screwed up religious or political fervor. The next day a politician is assasinated for personal satisfaction. A baseball player gets a contract for half a billion US dollars for playing with a ball and bat for an audience while millions starve everywhere. Children go hungry, have no parents as a result of HIV/Aids and poverty, have no education becuase a 8 year old is taking care of his 3 year old brother like a father would, have no or little shelter and clothing and spend all their childhood in nameless and countless fears from the world around them. Mothers loose 20 year old children to pointless wars and battles for black gold fields. People everywhere are more concerned with what they can get from others than what others suffer daily. The environment is getting ruined as a result of abuse by us all. Children are gifted guns by their fathers as a passage to manhood. Kindness and sympathy are seen as weaknesses and are exploited mercilessly. Love is a word to be scoffed at and ridiculed. Being married to 8 different people in a lifetime is seen as normal and to be expected. Cheating a business partner or cheating on a spouse are not uncommon or unusual. Death and destruction reign everywhere. Generations are growing up without knowing their own parents or knowing anything but the spectres of war.
If any one of us does recieve good news or safety from the world’s cruelty in the form of love and care from any other person, we are fearful to accept it. It seems way too good to be true. Only the most sheltered seem to escape being back-stabbed at some time in their life. If they are put out into the world, however, their innocence would be their greatest weakness. It truly has become a dog-eat-dog world. Politicians gain votes by showing up their competition and proving that they are less slimy than the others. Government officials depend on bribery to combat the growing inflation everywhere. The common people suffer through more and more injustice and pay more and more taxes in the hope that these injustices will decrease somehow. The miracle they hope for never arrives. The ‘revolutionaries’ that try to bring change only bring more unrest and destruction. No one cares to listen to, much less accept, another’s point of view.
This scary panorama of darkness and hellfire within the war-ridden countries is the world we reside in today. Throughout human history, there has been bloodshed and war. There have been countless unspeakable atrocities in the name of God, King or land. Yet, never has the world been in so much chaos as it is now. Every person is a victim and a criminal. Every person is a part of the system and is sick of it. There is no way only one person wanting change can make it happen, especially since many are very happy with the world works right now. They benifit from other’s grief and loss, so they are very comfortable with the present situation.
It is my naive hope, however, that generations to come will not have to live in a world so riddled with unrest and pain. I hope they will find a form of peace and happiness that mankind has not yet known. I hope that someday people will care more for the cries of widows, childless mothers, orphaned infants and starving populations than what Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan did. I pray that the children of the future will live in a world full of the colors of love, peace and harmony and never have to face the symphony of loss that is today’s world.
