avalokitesvara
bodhisattva
- Nov 28, 2024
- 245
I saw a photo of a 10 year old little Palestinian girl who had had both of her arms blasted off in the war.
Imagine, really truly remember yourself when you were 10 years old. Your joy of running and jumping and climbing and playing and eating and hugging your mum and playfighting with your siblings and stroking your pets. Your growing, whole, body. Suddenly to lose all that and be left in the world without hands, without arms. Your whole entire life up to that point utterly bereft. Your complete trauma and grief. Through sheer meaningless tribal violence.
I saw a photo of a malnourished 3 year old Palestinian little boy who had had his entire family killed in the war.
Remember yourself as a helpless, innocent, trusting, brand-new person, a toddler, discovering the world, overwhelmed by everything, learning to be a person, trusting completely on your family who are your whole entire universe. One day being thrust into a grief and trauma so completely immense that you cannot even conceive of it. Imagine the heartbreak, that will never ever heal.
All of that, from sheer meaningless tribal violence.
Pointless violence. Hell being created for no reason.
This isn't a political post. I'm sure the Palestinian political forces would do the same to Israeli children given the chance. It's about the innocents of politics and wars, who are plunged into unescapable hell through sheer stupid violence.
It's about all the millions and billions of children and women and innocent men who have been tortured and beaten and maimed and amputated and orphaned and raped and blinded and burned and exploited and traumatised due to humanity's evil, stupid, violence. The creation of millions and billions of private hells. And why? Why?
I can't live in a world like this. I can't accept what people do to each other. I can't get the image of the eyes of those children out of my mind.
Imagine, really truly remember yourself when you were 10 years old. Your joy of running and jumping and climbing and playing and eating and hugging your mum and playfighting with your siblings and stroking your pets. Your growing, whole, body. Suddenly to lose all that and be left in the world without hands, without arms. Your whole entire life up to that point utterly bereft. Your complete trauma and grief. Through sheer meaningless tribal violence.
I saw a photo of a malnourished 3 year old Palestinian little boy who had had his entire family killed in the war.
Remember yourself as a helpless, innocent, trusting, brand-new person, a toddler, discovering the world, overwhelmed by everything, learning to be a person, trusting completely on your family who are your whole entire universe. One day being thrust into a grief and trauma so completely immense that you cannot even conceive of it. Imagine the heartbreak, that will never ever heal.
All of that, from sheer meaningless tribal violence.
Pointless violence. Hell being created for no reason.
This isn't a political post. I'm sure the Palestinian political forces would do the same to Israeli children given the chance. It's about the innocents of politics and wars, who are plunged into unescapable hell through sheer stupid violence.
It's about all the millions and billions of children and women and innocent men who have been tortured and beaten and maimed and amputated and orphaned and raped and blinded and burned and exploited and traumatised due to humanity's evil, stupid, violence. The creation of millions and billions of private hells. And why? Why?
I can't live in a world like this. I can't accept what people do to each other. I can't get the image of the eyes of those children out of my mind.
