Last night i sat on the couch watching The Lord of The Rings, The Twin Towers. I was chuffed with myself because I had just finished the book the day before (even for a fast reader like moi it took a while to read and i had to re-read some bits to fully understand what was going on) and i thought i deserved to watch the movie. I came to the part where there is war at Helm's Deep and it was pretty full on. Arrows flying, the groans of the dead, swords clashing. I had to admit, the filming was amazing, it must have taken forever to get all the cameras in the right angles and get all the right shots, it was all full of action.I suddenly realized,however, that they make war so glamorous in the movies and it doesn't really happen like at all that in real life. Here it is worse. These men who go out to war have families, friends , lives. I imagined having to give up my dad so he could go out to fight men younger and older then him in a pointless war. I imagined knowing that he would not come back, that he would be dead by morning. What is the reward to all of this? What forces us kill thousands of men to get the approval of men that don't know the real you.How can anyone kill someone of their own kin and not even give the slightest care, show sympathy or compassion at the young man they just killed. THAT is what's really missing in the world. Not another shopping mall, not another raid of deforestation, no more dead men, heartbroken children and depressed wives. We need to show compassion, love, and understanding.We were given and amazing privilege by being placed upon this beautiful, astonishing, spectacular planet. And we messed up. Big time.We cut down trees that are not ours, we pollute the skies yet its these things that we need to survive. We have messed up so much that i am scared of what the world is going to be like when i am older. Will it be so full of pollution, misery, hate and the sense of people just giving up that everyone sits around in decrepit houses waiting to die?
Scientific experiments have shown the planets really do have feelings. They were here long before us and yet we think that we are all so high and mighty that nothing else can even come close to being as spectacular as us.
Just because we can walk and talk and kill doesn't mean that we rule everything on this earth.
In the park by our house, the gardeners have planted small saplings that are trying so hard to grow, around the huge football field. Everyday i see people walking all over them because it is a shortcut and they don't now have to walk around them. They pay no attention to the small plants that are just trying to get by. What we don't realize is we need these trees and plants. Without them we would have no oxygen and would die. These plants are the reason we are alive, yet we stomp all over them and never give a care. One of the worst thing is, people don't look around and notice this is a problem. Parents don't tell their kids off if they walk in the flower bed, they encourage them to do it by walking in the flowerbed as well! Imagine some stranger coming up to you and slapping you across the face, you have never met this person and have done nothing to them. That is what it is like when we walk all over plants. If they chose to come alive right now, they would have a hell of a lot to say to us, that's for sure.
We have become so overcome by greed that it clouds our eyes and mind, making us think that if we do not buy something it was a crap day. We get so upset if something doesn't go our way that we feel like throwing a temper tantrum. Yet, millions of children and mothers are lying on the ground , they have no money and they haven't eaten in 2 weeks so they have no energy to get up. Mothers have to watch their children die before them and there is nothing they can do. All of this is really enough to make one feel sick to their stomach. And so guilty about what we have done.
And ashamed, ashamed of what we have become.
