WAR

 Yet Another War. A War on Humanity. To separate the perpetrator from the victim is difficult here. I spent the last few days going through horrific stories of violence in Israel and Gaza. The years of oppression in Gaza has finally been given some answer! Call it retaliation, terrorism or mass mentality. 

Human race has been evil. It brought me back to the Gujarat Riots where stories of mass murders, rapes, execution of kids and mutilation of pregnant women was rampant on both sides.

There is this Mass Hatred that we all have against somebody different than us. different colour, race, ethnicity, clothes or food or living style. we hate almost everyone. In India there is North vs south, east vs west, hindu vs muslim, sikh vs hindu, shia vs sunni jain vs hindu, marathi vs bihari, woman vs man, and if nothing then mother in law vs daughter in law. I have myself been a part of many such hatred stories. 

i have been self torturing myself by going through so many accounts of those who escaped in Israel and Gaza from the weapons, missiles, murder weapons! so many accounts of attrocities. so many people who look just like us, who live in houses just like us, kibutz that look like our gated communities villas and apartments which look like our high rise buildings. i envision my family surrounded by guns in home and ambushed, tortured. but that i how human imagination is. i havent been eating and sleeping well. and i now come to the understanding that it is only me who has to stay healthy! to serve, help, to heal this world. i have to do my bit. there is a reason i am not on the side of the evil. God wants me to be good

Till there is hatred there is going to be crimes. amongst these crimes I saw stories of how Doctors volunteered to treat patients in Jerusalem and south Israel and on Gaza border. People without any religion selflessly working for humanity. That gave me hope, that if you atleast stick to humanity, humanity will pervail.

Few things I am going to do myself to get more compassion than hate:

1. Treat everyone with respect. Be kind. As kindness stays

2. Be more religion and race unbiased

3. have less road rage

4. Generally trust people more. Hate comes from believing everyone is evil

5. Teach kids kindness

6. Spread the Light: Talk about the good acts that you saw or heard or did. Share that on dinner tables. Most people are good. I want to believe that.

Also, I just saw a wonderful movie called "A Billion Colour Story" Its a must see for every human on this planet. So beautiful, so stoic and so balanced!

 we need to teach our kids not to hate but love, to smile, to endure. What will happen in their lifetime we do not know, but their niceness will pervail and they maybe able to go from this world doing good for others. 

May there be God, and May he help!