I’m terrified to the core.. And I’m not afraid to admit it. But when I give it a serious thought, I brace myself, dust myself off, and I move forward. If I’m terrified and I compromise my life because of that, then all those people responsible for creating terrors in our lives would win. And I can’t let that happen. They cannot win. The recent happenings around the world make me cringe to see the level us humans have fallen.
No religion in the world preaches violence or revenge in this brutal form. Killing innocent lives to make a point can only be a thought of a twisted mind, not a religious mind. No one with a sane mind would even ever think of hurting another innocent soul. Dhaka attacks struck me really hard, so much so that I was having nightmares. The mum in me is worried sick for the safety and well-being of her child. The more I read about the attack the more I couldn’t understand that how can kids in their late teens and early twenties from affluent families who had probably not seen difficult times in their lives can fall to such a horrific level where they start killing innocent lives. People in a cafe enjoying a cup of coffee, out there on a vacation were just killed. And for what? Just to make a statement….!
And then came Medina and Dhaka again, where on Eid a festival widely celebrated people were killed by suicide bombers. Then came Kashmir where people were attacked by pellet guns which are non-fatal in nature but so many of the victims were left blinded.
And now it’s Nice. Many of you would have seen a latest picture of Nice attacks where a baby corpse is seen next to a doll. I was in a crowded station when I saw that picture and tears trickled down my eyes looking at it. A kid no more that 4 years along with 83 others lost their lives because of a crazy man. And what surprises me even more is that the truck driver killer has a family of his own. He has three kids and still he went on to brutally kill innocent families, kids, and babies. This is wrong.. totally wrong, no one can justify. No religion can support it, this kind of violence. And today we have an 18-year old in Germany who shot 9 people mostly in their teens before shooting himself.
ATTENTION EDITORS – VISUAL COVERAGE OF SCENES OF INJURY OR DEATH – A body is seen on the ground July 15, 2016 after at least 30 people were killed in Nice, France, when a truck ran into a crowd celebrating the Bastille Day national holiday July 14. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard – RTSHZK8
We already have so many natural and man-made calamities where thousands loose their lives. We have typhoons and earthquakes, droughts and hurricanes, landslides and tsunamis, all these claiming thousands of lives each year. We don’t need terrorism to add to the loss. We don’t need people with twisted ideology, and those with political agendas to take anymore lives. Humans have become the worst creatures to inhabit the earth. Selfish and self-centered. If we keep going at this rate, the time would come really soon when the whole human race would be wiped off.
Mazhab nahi seekhta aapas mein bair karna.. No religion preaches animosity.
My heart goes out to all the families who have lost their loved ones in the recent attacks across the world. May their souls rest in peace. And may their families get the courage to overcome the grief.
This needs to stop. We need to learn to live and let live. We need to accept our differences and in no circumstances ever should anyone reach a stage where they start taking innocent lives. Each life is precious and NO ONE deserves to die this way.
When even dolls cried.. I'm terrified to the core.. And I'm not afraid to admit it. But when I give it a serious thought, I brace myself, dust myself off, and I move forward.