Solemn Day

Every morning, getting ready for work; i have the tv tuned into BBC news. And you know, i suspect thats why i get so melancholic in the mornings. Hell, i've had better mornings waking up with a hang over, than with a clear head and BBC.

Everyday, its killing, bombs, dead folk, car bombs, mosque bombs, planes dropping bombs, people wearing bombs...Talk about overkill! Every morning, i wake up and hear that 60 odd people were killed, and you know what is scary, the placidity with which this information is entering my head.

I feel quite disgusted with myself actually. On the drive to work today, it kinda bothered me, that for so many days, i'm hearing that all these people are dying, and there aren't any bells and whistles going off in my head. i can safely say, in just 20mins of world news, over the last few days, i've already heard of atleast 200-300 people who have lost their lives.

Isn't that appalling? These people aren't dying because of some plague, or tornado or flood( that's happening too by the way, and it'll take the figure up alot more). This particular dying is going on in the middle east, between iraq and the gazza strip and what not. People taking other people's lives, with no pity, remorse or logical reason.

It seems like human life, has no weight in this day and age. 200 over people dead, and without flinching, i'm contemplating which new video game i should buy. Has it become an okay statistic for hundreds to die, and we'll wait for thousands before it starts to draw shock?

Maybe this is how Hitler got away with genocide. Gradually, increasing the numbers till the rest of us are just numb to the death tolls? Just for your info, this is the figure of civilian casualties taken from www.iraqbodycount.com:

The MINIMUM number is estimated at : 65,689 reported deaths.

ALso, THe coalition has lost 3809 in all this time.

Can you imagine 70,000 people dead? Sure, its been 100 here, 7 there, 15 here, 23 at another place. But, all these meaningless deaths!

Has the world become evil? I don't want to ask where God is in all of this. Because frankly, i think What this world needs is not God. We need some bloody humanity. Some love, and maybe some compassion, and A little feeling of sorrow at what others are facing.

One might say pray, but i believe respect for the lives of others, is not gonna just start falling out from the heavens on these people. It is really sad. I am willing to bet that every religion, and not just Muslims and christians have lost some of their faithful in the chaos of the world these few years.

I don't know where to take this entry, or even how to end it. So i'll just leave it...