Hello people.
This week I don't feel like sharing my "have a nice weekend" blog. This week I just can't. I wanna share instead these words I wrote for myself and for everyone else who might care.
Thanks in advance for reading.
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I've never lived a war first-hand. I can imagine how terrible must be, but I can't really know how REALLY terrible it is.
My grandmother lived times of a civil war in my country. My parents lived a dictatorship. Fortunatelly for me, when I was born my country was already democratic and free. It's like a lottery: You can't decide where and when you are born. I was lucky.
There are lot of people like you and me who didn't decide to be born in what happens to be a strategic territory for other countries. It could have happened to you and me (still can happen tho) but we didn't win this fatal 'lottery'.
This is a never ending war: Russia-Iran, US-Israel (with European support) and an endless thirst for power, territory and control. This is not like in movies where there is an evil side and a heroic side. In this war both sides are evil. Both sides want power and money no matter what and they don't give a sh*t how many lives they have to kill for that. In this war, both sides are wrong.
This is not nice to say, but we all are part of this never ending war too. Even if we can't hear the bombs in our comfortable houses we are part of it because of our silence and submission. We are part of it because we don't raise our voice and we don't move our a*s. We are lobotomized.
If this MASSACRE was happening in Paris, London, Berlin, New York (etc) we'd be hearing news about it 24/7, we'd be setting peace ribbons in our social sites' avatar, we'd be taking the street asking for peace, we'd be crying together...
But this is not happening either.
And I wonder: How many more innocent lives have to die?
More than 90,000 syrian civilians have been killed.
More than 10,000 syrian refugee children have been missed in Europe.
If you think these numbers are terrible, let me tell you that actually, United Nations gave up the death toll at the end of 2014. Nobody really knows how many innocent people are dying there, how many are being tortured, how many are being raped... It's a GENOCIDE and nobody seems to care what's going on with these lives... We didn't win that 'lottery'.
At the moment.
The voice of innocent people: A teacher from Aleppo:
(please, don't skip it)
"We just wanted to be free"
#IAmSyria
Comments
Rosemary, Yeah I hope it could be soon, but I don't think so...
Thanks for dropping by.
EMAN, thanks for your comment and please, don't refrain yourself from writing about this topic.
Hello my sweet Eva!
Thanks in advance for your detailed comment, and for showing your concern, I really appreciate it :)
Well, after being in EC for 3 years or so, I already know what kind of blogs have more or less comments and feedback. Before writing this blog, I knew that probably it couldn't have many comments (or not any at all) because people prefer talkin' about more cheerful things. I can understand that and I know this kind of topics are hard and not nice to read but still... it's necessary.
My main purpose with this blog was to do a self-criticism. Our society is becoming a 'spoiled child' who thinks that the fault of all the cruel and bad things that's happening in this world is because of governments, big companies, or any other abstract or general concept... But we never look at ourselves as a possible part of that problem. We always feel 'free to blame' because we are just ordinary people. And that's wrong. If we really want to change the world, we have to start for changing ourselves.
To be in peace with our conscience is very important. And my conscience doesn't feel in peace keeping quiet. But the thing that pisses me off the most is that I'm sure there is more good people in the world than bad ones so, if only the good people could take the streets of every city in the world and ask to all those who 'rule the world' to stop... All the good people could make a big change.
I dunno, maybe it's an utopia. But still i think that 'utopias' are just 'impossible dreams' because we want to. We could change that too.
I also feel like you said, powerless, frustrate and angry when reading or listening to news and as well as you said sometimes you even refrain yourself from having more info because it's too hard. But it would be terribly selfish to keep living our lives ignoring the injustices. We have to know and we have to speak out about it... Because if noone care, we are making the things even more easy to the 'bad guys'.
Your words are so nice and right, and your concern so sincere. Thank you so so much for everything Eva. I also would like to give you one million likes.
Thank you Robbie! But plz, don't say you're 'nobody'. Each of us can make a change in this world, just changing ourselves and being more empathic and never shut up when we see any injustice around us. Even if we have to repeat 1 million times every year that we want to live in peace and we don't want wars, let's do it!
Thank you so much for your kind words and to show your concern.
Batuhan, please, don't refrain yourself for sharing your support for the war victims or anything you had in mind, I'd love to read about it.
Thanks for your words and for dropping by.
My dear setareh, I agree with all what you say
I also feel very disappointed with politicians and I barely believe in politics now, it's just a business and I can't agree more when you say "they don't even care about the people of their own country let alone other countries". It's totally like that.
I also feel like you said, wondering what can we do ourselves. But I think to talk about it helps a lot to show our politicians that we care and we demand information. It might sound 'frivolous' but to make news a 'trending topic' in social sites is the only thing social media cares about, so we should give them that.
Yes, I also wonder why is so difficult to get along, even if we are in small groups. And I also wonder if we're becoming more intolerant. The human being is a proffessional on making things complicated.
Thanks a lot of your very interesting comment, I loved it.
Thank you so much for dropping by.
Camel, thanks for your nice words. I know I'm very far from being your 'fav EC member', so I appreciate it. I guess even if we don't like some people, we can get along sometimes ;)
Mishaikh, Yes, the city of Aleppo it's devastated now... I can't even get to imagine the pain of every victim and innocent survivor. That's why the title of my blog. Tears are not enough...
Thanks for your words and for sharing your concern.
AG, What can I say to you... I don't even have words.
I can't imagine the huge pain and rage you're feeling now. I try to imagine how would be to see the capital of my city (Madrid) like the pictures of that link Mishaikh shared and still I can't get to imagine your pain.
I just can hope for a better world, even if that's naive.
Please, never give up because this world needs good people.
Thanks a lot for dropping by. I send you my best wishes for you and your family in this so hard time.
Sweet Adaline, I also wonder all these things too... Where is the humanity? It's really frustrating...
Thanks a lot for sharing your concern with us.
Thank you all for showing your concern.
Dear Mary, I always wondering about this situation as well. The big nations always condemn little little things, but strangely thousand been killed and injured everyday in Syria. Why the nations acting this slow? only God knows. Where is all the things they discuss in Geneva peace conference on Syria? I simply sitting in my home watching news and crying with those Syrian people whose life taken and destroyed. May god help them. Its so sad is int Mary!
Thanks for sharing! I like the word 'Hope'.
Thank you for caring.. All the shame and damn is to be over the killers and those who are in solidarity with them..
I cannot say a word..
I am only about to lose my family and my job because of depression.. my biggest wish in life is to exchange my place with any innocent child who is being buried under the ceiling of their home by this time... Yet, I am not allowed to give up, for I have people who I need to fund..
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The devastation!
Thanks Mary for raising voice for the oppressed. A Few days back I read news how mercilessly the people, innocent people of Aleppo were bombarded. They were only civilian, including housewives and children. They were not soldiers. The teacher in the video rightly said they want the land without people. May Allah save every soul.
Dearest Mary,
I wonder if there is anybody who won't agree with all you have mentioned in your blog. I always hate politics because i believe politicians are all lairs; they don't even care about the people of their own country let alone other countries. Dear Mary, every scene and news which i hear about Syrian people makes me so sad and i wonder while united nation and some other countries are trying to negotiate the war in Syria they dont actually care about how many more people are dying every day, because for them those are just numbers not lives of innocent people.
The fact that I just talk and I can't do anything to help them makes me feel so miserable; sometimes i even wonder if i have the courage to help them.
Dear Mary, I am in a group which there are so many people from different countries but unfortunately i have noticed that people are so intolerant; they can't even listen to ideas which are different from theirs.with all the technologies we have developed to bring people closer but in reality we are still so far away from each other. It's so simple yet seems to be so hard focusing on the fact that we are all humans with the same basic needs, emotions, dreams and hopes. We are much alike than different.
I wish peace and hope for Syrian people.
This is a true testament that we live in cruel world. Though some of us live in the democratic nation, we're still imprisoned with different forms of hatred and discrimination. I'm just a nobody, but I truly believe in prayers because it worked on me, and I wouldn't hesitate to include this country in my prayers and petitions regardless of the differences in religion and beliefs.
Wishing everyone peace and understanding.