anotherlook

Can you believe it, the one day I decided not to watch the news, not to get too involved in writing my feelings in a blog not to even feel or think, that’s the day
India is brutally attacked without warning. 

I can not believe I sat around watching the NCSI marathon all day long yesterday while something major was happening in the real world.  I needed NCSI though it was a relaxing respite from the world of politics and news.  However, by 5:00 pm I had gotten my fill on the unreality of their team.  The NCIS team work so well together – that’s why I like to watch them.  All of them are so distinctly different yet so compatible together on a human level.  In all the jobs I have had, I have never worked on a team like that and never saw one function like that one – Hollywood makes everything beautiful.  

So anyway, when I switched to my favorite news channel – which is CNN – I discovered that there were those in the real world who had decided to demonstrate to the world, in one offensive sweep in India, their madness, hatred, dissatisfaction, craziness and their non relenting ability to create chaos at any time, in any place. 

I can never understand what is working inside people who react and relate with so much violence and hatred inside of them.  I remember when 9/11 happened.  I mentally put myself in the cockpit of those planes, as one of the terrorist.  I experienced the visual of flying closer and closer to the twin towers, how large the buildings were getting as we drew closer, I lived the fear of knowing that death was upon me and that I was taking with me, in this glorious sacrifice, a plane full of strangers, as well as those people in the office complex I was about to slam into.   

I snapped myself back to reality knowing, that it takes a demented mind to want to experience these things let alone participate in the violence.  No less the act of suicide bombing – what, do you just wake up one day and decide this is the day, let me strap on my bomb, and go to a busy intersection and blow up myself and anybody who is near, in a glorious sacrificial demonstration of what????? 

How this can be associated with some type of religious belief of sacrificing your body and soul for the good of the masses or the good of a cause, making you a better person in the afterlife – that is just sick to me, insanity personified – is beyond me.  Any way you look at it, whichever way you justify it, you have to be stone, cold crazy to do it. 

So as you sit down to your Thanksgiving Dinner today or just go about your day, be thankful that this insanity has not touched you on this day, as it is affecting the people in India in these moments of time.  Be thankful that your mindset has not taken you around the dark corners of life that these terrorist have taken.  Be thankful that at this moment your life is not taking you down the road of intense fear and uncertainty that is being felt by those in the area of destruction and murder in India and pray that in the coming year, some hearts will cease the relentless surge of hate and chaos. 

And that’s the way I see it!!