You will rarely see me make a political post here, or a post on current world events. As you have probably guessed, it isn’t that I don’t hold opinions (c’mon, really? me?), it’s just that I don’t often have the energy to voice them.Â
But am I the only one lately that has to turn off the news in a sanity-preservation move? I cannot hear one more news report without having the almost overwhelming urge to climb to the top of the highest mountain I know and scream “STOP!! STOP IT RIGHT NOW!!”
I know that I have to be speaking for every mother that loves her child when I ask what, what possible political policy, what possible religious motivation, what can be worth pulling your child from the wreckage of a bombed building? What can be worth the broken bodies and ruined faces of the innocent? What can be worth the pain of that loss?
Why hasn’t thousands of years increased the humanity of man? Where is a mountain high enough to be heard?
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You are not alone on this one.
I’m going to go tuck my little girl in now. She’s 10 today. She doesn’t yet understand how lucky she is.
I have that thought every morning about 1am… when I start in to compiling world and national news. There’s one particular still photo a buddy from the AP sent me… I won’t describe it, except to say it’s mother and son. I can’t get that image out of my head.
It’s probably in some light, terribly irresponsible, but that is why I don’t watch the news anymore. Whenever I feel like I may have missed something important, I make the rounds of the news sites online and read, as selectively as possible, and mostly regret it afterwards. A part of me believe that the world has always been this way, we just couldn’t get the details 24/7 the way we do now. But another part of me fears that it’s worse today than ever. And politicians give me the exact same sick feeling in the pit of my stomach as pedophiles.