Apologies if I have grammar mistakes, I haven’t slept in days
This happened today:
So, as I am now a journalist, I’ve been very very busy with all the Syria, III WW, attacks, terrorists, ISIS, war stuff, haven’t slept more than three hours in days and today, wasn’t the exception to that.
I came home from the office to have lunch and then go back to work (to you, rp partner that I am in debt with, sorry, I’m doing my best to keep up *gives them flowers and chocolate*) and we were all sitting at the table, tv on because I was watching the news and there was this ISIS “explanation“ on a national channel here in Paraguay.
So, as my dad and I were discussing whether the information given by this news program was accurate or not, my little sister who is 7 years old, asked what the ISIS was and what does III WW mean. I was REALLY surprised by my dad’s answer.
He basically said: “Do you remember the lizards in the house right and that I assigned military ranges to all of us?“ and at first, I was confused, but then I remembered that my dad was the General, my stepmother was a captain, I was a lieutenant and my sister was a cadet.
Well, my sister very enthusiasticlly said that she was a cadet waiting to be promoted to a second lieutenant. My dad said “Well, the lizards here are also cadets and other types of soldiers. Remember when you accidentally killed Lagertha?“ Lagertha was the name of my dad’s favorite lizard. And my sister just nodded, with a kind of guilty expression on her face. I have to say that I was still confused about this.
“When Lagertha died, all the lizard people were very angry. The lizard people believed that the ants killed her, so they started attacking the ants. The bugs are like a country, all of them are united, you know? When they attacked ants, spiders enraged and founded an organization called Arachnid State (AS to simplify, guys). The Arachnid State started attaking lizards and many of them died, they started putting bombs in the lizard’s homes and the damage they created was enormous“. As my dad continued, the three of us (my sister, my stepmother and I) were amazed by how well explained that was.
“The problem started when the AS started attacking the humans. The humans, like us, decided that it was convinient to bomb the ants, so they began to fumigate and ants started dying, but also spiders died. But spiders were stronger and the AS grew bigger. Here comes the tricky part: Only the humans in France started to bomb the ants first, but then other humans in five other countries joined: Russia, United States, Germany, Iran and Irak. That makes it a “world war”. Do you get it now?“
My dad really explained the whole thing with analogies, using bugs and lizards, and then my sister just nodded and stared at the tv for a minute. When she came back from her thoughts, she said “But dad, wouldn’t have been easier to the lizards to ask the ants if they killed Lagertha or not? I mean, it’s easier to dialogue and solve things talking. Didn’t their parents or their kings and queens taught them that? You always say that violence solves nothing, do they know this?“
Jaws dropped here. My sister understood the conflict and also said that a solution to the problem was just talking. I mean, she has a better notion of what problem solving is and she said the only way to solve their conflict is to talk. Faith in humanity restored guys.
