The age of innocence
It is quite today. It's cold for summer and we have perfected life by shutting out cold, noise, heat, etc. by securing our homes with double glazing. We strive for the perfect conditions where everything is just right.
I felt inspired today by someone halfway across the world. In Syria. The country that has everyone talking. The country everyone has something to say about. The little country that no one really paid attention to a few years ago and now we are all experts on Syrian culture, people, religion and so on.
I have a friend who many years ago travelled in Syria. If I want to know about Syria, I ask him. He has high praise for the country that he described as beautiful and friendly. What I read in the news today is so different. What really happened to this country? The common man may possibly never know and history will be written from a victors perception yet again.
We all want to protect our innocent. I have come to question innocence in the last few years. My naïve hope and wish for peace seems to drift further and further away. The current "so called leaders" belong more in a circus than a speaking platform. Fuelling hate and separation and intolerance.
I have just spent 3 weeks with a 97 years young lady. She was born just after the first world war and lived through the second. I loved to hearing her take on life. Being very hard of hearing made for some comical conversation but the twinkle in her eye told me that the hearing is better than indicated.
But apart from young children, the closest thing to innocence I have come to experience for a long while, was when I went to tuck her in and found her curled up in a foetal position, hands together, praying a prayer of gratitude to have lived another day!
A vision worth holding as we enter uncertain times.
I felt inspired today by someone halfway across the world. In Syria. The country that has everyone talking. The country everyone has something to say about. The little country that no one really paid attention to a few years ago and now we are all experts on Syrian culture, people, religion and so on.
I have a friend who many years ago travelled in Syria. If I want to know about Syria, I ask him. He has high praise for the country that he described as beautiful and friendly. What I read in the news today is so different. What really happened to this country? The common man may possibly never know and history will be written from a victors perception yet again.
We all want to protect our innocent. I have come to question innocence in the last few years. My naïve hope and wish for peace seems to drift further and further away. The current "so called leaders" belong more in a circus than a speaking platform. Fuelling hate and separation and intolerance.
I have just spent 3 weeks with a 97 years young lady. She was born just after the first world war and lived through the second. I loved to hearing her take on life. Being very hard of hearing made for some comical conversation but the twinkle in her eye told me that the hearing is better than indicated.
But apart from young children, the closest thing to innocence I have come to experience for a long while, was when I went to tuck her in and found her curled up in a foetal position, hands together, praying a prayer of gratitude to have lived another day!
A vision worth holding as we enter uncertain times.
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