mariamusic

We all play games.War is one of them.The following describes the way I was seeing a war those days.



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Almost 15 years ago and another month of March.The Red Alarm, strikes, thunders and explosions one after the other, the windows start shaking, sometimes the lights too, the power goes off. phone lines go dead and my dad is fixing out the curtain.
It was few days left to our NewYear,,,,I remember him telling me,:"when you hear the bomb, it means you are still alive..."
No heart warming for those moments,though pretty logic in some ways.

It is now March 2003, and the country which attacked us back then is under fire. Although I'm used to hearing lie news and I never really follow or count on news,specially political ones,yet I'm deeply saddened.
I'm not the same person I used to be and not quite sure of being grateful for my new world's perspective or not,since it is cutting deeper.the sorrow is heavier and the lonliness turns to tears.

People's reaction,the hate,the patterns or in a way what humans are doing to each other.

What comes to mind while following people these days are Dinosaurs. Not quite sure though however I wonder whether those animals treated their kinds the way humans are doing.

How hardly they are resisting before change. How badly they struggle to keep the old patterns,although it is damaging their kinds.How blindly they follow. How deadly they breath.How uselessly they shout. How falsely they use their energy and talent.

It seems that there are blocks putt on blocks,cements on cements,same old rutines,same old closed minds,same old.... just the words has changed.Not much different ways of thinking, Still repeating same old believes that their grands had centuries ago!!!
Is it what cultrue does to humans?Is it what religon does?Is it what education is supposed to do? Is it what 'power' does to humans? Is it what leadership does???Is it? If so no wonder why most of the human beings are more likely to keep marching on the spot,or walking a circle,...than developing.

I guess now I am begining to realize the meaning of what Berne mentioned "...It means there is no hope for human race...."
One has to be way too optimistic to say otherwise,I guess.

Tehran,Iran,March 2003.



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Comments
Re: War
by tonywhite at 05:42AM (PDT) on Sep 18, 2005
Hello Ms Tabrizi,
I found your statement most moving. I live in a western society where we get information about the middle east that one is never sure how accurate it is. The press likes to highlight only certain things and sensationalize other points. It is refreshing to hear from a person who has lived in a middle eastern country and can talk from the point of view of the 'man in the street'. So we get the information first hand, not through the eyes of a journalist and the editor of a newspaper. I hope you keep ,writing about such things.
Tony White