Posts Tagged ‘hunger’
Searching for Bliss
Let us not spoil the Christmas and New Year party. These are hard times – recession and terror attacks have only made them worse. But this is the time of the year to count our blessings for being alive and for being able to think about small, big moments of happiness.
There are always reasons to celebrate. Those who have lost their jobs should be happy to have had one in the first place and for being spirited enough to look for new openings. Those who have lost their lives under various circumstances be it suicide or terror attack or accident or disease are already beyond pain. And many who are mourning loss of dear ones have no other choice but to put the chin up, find reasons to carry on and count their blessings for being alive.
Amnesia + Ignorance = Bliss, is the new formula for the happiness. The more you forget all pains, the better you are. The less you know, the less you think and better you float in happiness. Not convinced? Suppose it’s a splurge fun party, is there any reason to think about how many hungry people that money can feed? No need remember all those UN statistics about hungry and homeless. Forget it. Also what is the point of knowing all this state of the poor in the world? Awareness is not going to feed people and help planet survive. So it is best to be ignorant.
Two elections, two worlds and hope of change
Kenya is rejoicing and backing US Presidential candidate Barrack Obama. This news of rejoice is being carried out by all media channels. It is historic moment indeed. The world is all set to have first African-American President of America. It has been a long march since Martin Luther King gave that historic speech. The change is here and now. Race and colour do not really matter. This long march of Barrack Obama which began in land of blacks in Kenya will end in White house. Yet Africa and America will remain two poles. We live in polarized and disjointed world with ironical connectedness.
Few months ago media was covering another historic election in another part of the world. There was much hope that Zimbabwe will get freedom from Robert Mugabe’s regime which has bled nation for nearly 30 years! But this hope of change was imprisoned, terrorized and forced to flee from that land. People in Zimbabwe now are starving, battling cholera and inflation. Mugabe has made a joke of democracy, elections, western world, equality, economy, development, hope and everything positive. Zimbabwe, Congo, Ethiopia and many other poor nations of Africa are reeling under extreme poverty, hunger, distress and are being raped for resources. But media and world has no time to stop. American financial crisis is the biggest news of all!
