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September 11, 2002
it's been a year... and i'm not sure what to put here.
peace. thats what i want to put here. peace is what i believe in. its what i've always believed in.
i've been thinking about my childhood / teenagehood lately. funny, i found one of my first buttons i ever bought the other day. its a button with a gun wrapped in green vine and the word "peace" in several languages in a circle around the image.
i've always believed in the notion of do unto others as you would have them do unto you.. isn't that printed in some holy book? i don't know, i haven't read many holy books.. but i'm pretty sure you could find that in one called.... the bible. i mean really. do unto others as you would have them do unto you. i've also believed that violence does not beget peace. i've believed both notions all my life.
so. its a year later and for the past number of days the word > peace < has been in my head.. pounding in my head. repeating in my head. wanting to come out. peace peace peace peace peace PEACE PEACE PEACE PEACE.
and i don't want to critisize today. but somehow i feel like we've not learned the lesson. we've not learned the biggest and greatest lesson that we should have learned from that day. in fact, i know we haven't learned that lesson from that day. we haven't learned peace.
we are just as violent as we were on that day. we are all in fear. innocent people an ocean away are in fear. innocent people an ocean away were in fear, and continue to be in fear.... of us.
peace. and humanity.
didn't we learn anything? why do we want to put other people through what *we* went through? what we are going through? what in our hearts makes us want to do that? are humans that inherintly that uncaring about people who are far away from us? are humans that uncaring that we want to continue the suffering?
i don't understand it. it makes me want to cry. the inhumanity, the unpeacefullness, the uncaring.
i don't want anyone in any other country to go through what my friends in new york city have gone through. no, i don't want them to suffer. i don't care who they are, but they are human and i don't want the suffering to continue.
so. i'm a bit distracted, as usual. and what i originally sat down here to do, quote gandhi, was not what i did. but thats what i do here.
i hope that everyone finds peace on this day. i hope that my friends, that one in particular--- you know who you are-- finds some peace today.
i hope that one day we can all find the peace in our hearts and be able to extend it out to those across the seas and be able to learn how to do it without making the suffering continue.
because suffering equals pain. and pain sucks.
Posted by brooke at September 11, 2002 12.06.18 AM
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I know this is kinda cheesy, but there's truth in every story:
fear leads to anger
anger leads to hate
hate leads to suffering
-Yoda
(sorry, been on a star wars kick lately, but, hey, it's not that far from the truth...)
Posted by Gina at September 10, 2002 9:22 PM
Beautifully said!
Posted by Helena at September 12, 2002 8:07 PM
amen. peace, shalom, civilization may happen - not in my lifetime, but still it may happen.
Posted by barbara at September 14, 2002 11:14 PM
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