This has been a strange weekend with extremely cold
temperatures that that are keeping families home which makes it nice for
bonding, housekeeping and simply putzing about.
However, one look at the world news has sent everything sideways,
wondering if we are perilously close to another war. How does Russia go from hosting the world
with the Olympic Games, supposedly creating goodwill, to mobilizing their army
to invade a country?
This evening a good part of the world will be watching
the Oscars but I find myself disturbed and wondering what I will be waking up
to tomorrow morning. I cannot seriously
think about who had the prettiest dress on the red carpet or who was the better
actor when what I am really thinking is that there are so many pockets of war
around the world that it is only a matter of time before some lunatic lights
the keg of dynamite.
The face of war is nothing like what you see in the
movies, and it’s not even what you read in books. War is more horrible than anything one can
possibly imagine and most horrifying of all is how quickly one’s neighbour can
change from an ordinary citizen to someone you neither recognize nor
understand. My parents lived through
World War II in an occupied country and some of the graphic stories my father
told strikes utter fear in my heart should something like that happen again. Once fighting starts in Europe who knows
where it will lead.
I am extremely concerned.
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