with one brutal killing after another.....
Many of these attacks have been carried out by people who have basically felt and believed they were beyond the pale of society. Mark - I said felt and believed...And here is where I believe the whole trouble lies. No one wants to be excluded from the warmth and comfort of the human circle. When someone feels some kind of rejection, for whatever reason, sadly they do things which, while getting the world to focus on them, destroy many, many innocent lives. Bad enough when adults get killed for no reason, the sight of a little child dying/dead breaks my heart as I'm sure it does everyone's.
We have people who have been directly affected by these killings, families torn apart, loved ones snatched away....and people who, though, many thousand miles away, feel deeply troubled and desperate too.
It's a feeling of unspeakable grief along with anger and helplessness at a totally unwarranted show of someone's rage.
The killers feel strongly about something and take it out on people who have no connection with what the killers feel strongly about. For what? To teach a randomly picked country a lesson? Is it a war against their fate? Is it a blind anger at being of a different color/race/creed?
And there seems to be no end in sight. No forgiveness, no healing, no nothing. Just insensible actions based on mad rage.
I'll take a line out of a quote by Albert Einstein, for, while our politicians and diplomats try to hammer out a solution, in our own small way we need to do our bit too...
'........widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures..........'