"Old order changeth yielding place to new
and God fulfills himself in many ways,
lest one good custom should corrupt the world."
"Ullysses" by Lord Tennyson.
Old must make way for the new but will the new be any better?
What are people excited about when there's so much chaos all around. I wonder what everyone's hopes are at this trying time.
2008 witnessed the Financial Crunch, bombings and massacres that left thousands homeless, pennyless and hopeless.Many went to the extent of taking their lives; our very own city was witness to the latter. Natural calamities worsened the situation further. The year that was,has changed history in so many ways, both positive and negative.
In the United States of America, people elected their first black president, Barrack Obama , the 44th in line. That definitely was a positive, epoch making, history- recreating feat.
However, not all changes were worth applauding.
In my own country, The Taj , one of the most prestigious hotel in the land's Business capital became a battlefield for the blood-thirsty. Today, it's walls speak of the horror coloured in blood, 'Innocent Blood'.
And that's not all, there's more to add to the woe. Here in the Middle East, the Gaza Strip is a 'Blood Bath', it has been so for a fortnight now and any hope for reconciliation is a far cry.
'I just can't read the papers today ,
'cause a child, child, child , he was murdered today".
These lines from Sineod O' Conor's song keeps ringing in my ears everytime I look at the front page of the news daily.
The atrocities are beyond a layman's power of understanding and comprehension.
I look around and keep wondering at men's trivialities. The feeling of 'Universal Brotherhood ' must have been coined out of the blue to exist only in theory . These days I find so many reasons to wonder about...
