If I were to meet any one of you at a park and sat beside you, you would smile and make friends. The character that you are would shine through. You would never smear anyone with vile remarks, in fact, you would look around you and notice how nice it is today.
Yet, when hidden behind the keyboard and monitor, when you can say things you would not say in person, so much bitterness has poured out of your souls.
The people who did the bloodbath during the Crusades are gone. The people who began the unending pouring of innocent Christian blood in Ireland are history. The people who wiped out the entire original population of Tasmania are dead too. The people who made the horrendous slave trade happen are dust now. The people who demolished Palestine and gave it to the Jews are no more in power. The engineers of the African Genocide are not even remembered any more.
What is left is their legacy. We are the legacy of the horrors of our time on this planet. There is no place we humans have left without desecrating what we found there, leaving scars and trails of blood. There is no stone on this earth you can leave unturned that has not witnessed the horrible spark of the human mark. There is no human tribe that can truly testify that they are clean. That is why we found God. To cleanse the blemishes of our existence.
What are you all so angry about? The past that has already been writ? You are here today, make it better, use your now so that 100 years from now, no such remarks will be made. You dont know what it is like to wake up in the countries that war is waging, because you are not there. Buy a ticket, go to a war torn nation, any one or two, there are so many, go and live with them and see how you feel in an hour with them. Then sit down and write.
Remember, the dinosours were here, something happened and they are gone, and no one knows anything about what happened. I said 'remember', but do you?
Posted by: Tas in response to the comments received by Los Angeles Times 'Top of the Ticket' August 13, 2010
August 26, 2010 at 06:23 AM
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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