"I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war."
Albert Einstein
So I thought today I will write a little about war, but I don’t quite want to talk about why they start it, and it must be replaced by peace and who starts it etc, as people usually write or talk about it. but I would like to talk about how I think a “war at peace” is still an ongoing war. No matter how many peace treaties are signed, or how many times they say that it is over, but this is so untrue! The fact that we still celebrate the day war was over in our countries, and instead of celebrating it the creation of peace, we celebrate the win, well I guess that explains it all. There are several things that I need to talk about. Such as a book that I am currently reading which made me write this, and a film that I have seen recently plus things that I have heard around!
I guess I shall start from somewhere, but just now I remembered this sentence I read a while back from Mother Teresa; “they have had asked her, why she does not join the anti war protests, her answer was, if you were protesting for peace, she would join, but not for anti war protests.” I mean, we just have to think one second about what she meant. Yet I am quite sure as per we all may have different views on what she meant! (So feel free to leave comments about what you think she thought, I would love to know.”
The book that I am reading now is called: “ A soldiers legacy” written by henirich boll, the nobel prize winner. Indeed it is an amazing book. It set in 1943, and it is about this soldier starts writing to the brother of his dead friend in war, and this person who killed him, who actually is close neighbours of the dead man. Indeed, the war happened in 1943, but the story shapes in the future of the war and what it has done! Both while and after, the writer beautifully displays the depressed and gray areas of the remains of the war, or in cases the dark sides left. It is a beautifully pictured story using words as almost every great writer does it.
My father has been in war for 8 years of his life getting injured and fighting, and the outcome was “OH WE WON”! I mean, I most certainly appreciate the fact that they have defended the country, but it still hurts me to think about why it starts. But as I said, I don’t want to talk about that! So here we are, at this moment! Just imagine your country, and as most of the countries have been in war, look at how you celebrate it now. We still celebrate it as the day we won it, although we might be opponents. Like French and the British and we both think we won. Well people, I say this is wrong, because even when we are in peace, we still feel we are better than the other and this feeling, as I have always told people, brings hate!!! Every time, you look at someone from up high, s/he will grow a little hate inside for you! And this is all war does. Look at where we are now. Take my own country for an example, we finished war more than 30 years ago, and we still hate the Iraqi’s for fighting with us. We went into war with Arabs, so far away, we can only read about it in books now, and we still dislike each other! So does this at all, sound like peace to you?!! These flying ashes of the finished war, burning more than the war burnt us itself. Let alone the damages it brings into our lives! Damaging, our health and wealth! We feel the glory deep inside when we talk about winning several wars in the past, but I think if we look deeper, we can clearly see, that we are destructed by all means! We have forgotten that its not us, but it is our governors who start the wars! And we have not got much to decide about!!! We lost our family and remain in pain for nothing1 for finally reaching the “Peace” that does not exist?!!
This is a very small insight that I have against war.... these are the burning ashes, burning like a red hot cigarette with the scar remaining forever!!!!
"All war is based on deception."
Love & Peace
Rona Sinni
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