Japan, the country of dead. What has this enmity and lust for money and physical comforts given us? Nothing more than a few moments of happiness followed by mass devastation. Greed has never returned good. It has taken toll of the greedy in one way or the other.
The moot question before the mankind today is not why has all this happened in Japan or how can everything be returned to normalcy. The question is that why Japanese people alone are being considered as the ones who have been affected by this natural disaster, why are we human beings not recognizing it as something which has traumatized not just the people in japan, but we all as a community have been affected. The way in which nature has stricken this time, how can we say that we have been spared, it was just that we were not there. It could have been anywhere in the world. Its not that Japan is suffering, its that mankind is suffering. We all share this earth. Owing to national divisions, we recognize nationalities but can that artificially imposed belongingness supersede the natural belongingness that we all share. The divisions are not mine or your interest, they are the interests of those who frame themselves as leaders. Where are they leading us: to hell? The more the divisions in this world, the more lonely everyone will be and the more will be the suffering and that would be literally hell. The only purpose that the divisions serve, if they really serve, is better catering to the needs of those who have been created disabled. Everyone in this world has been created self-sufficient except a few who need to be taken care of by those only who are capable themselves.
Today we are facing the danger of third world war which could and would be nuclear in character. Where has this fear come from? : from the divisions that we have all around us. How can mankind have danger from itself? Its not that there is lesser food or lesser space for anyone, still we are forging divisions and fighting. What is the fight for? Why do the nations need to wage wars? Except loss of life and love, what have the wars till now given to the mankind. Its not the prerogative of the leaders to think about the necessity of these national boundaries which end up in conflicts and wars. It must come from each and everyone who lives on this earth and calls himself a thinking being. The thought about having no divisions so that clashes can be avoided must come from the self-preserving tendencies of the presently and apparently most intelligent species on the face of this earth. We need to understand the importance of inter-dependence and recognize that in roots, we all belong to each other. Do not you who is reading this passage and i who is writing this page belong to the same family of human beings. What is the need for two of us to fight with each other when we belong to the same earth and derive our existence from the same earth and share our lives. How can we be separate when the earth which sustains us is shared by us. Its not that just Japanese are suffering, its that mankind is suffering today and we are sitting watching those people suffering as if they are aliens from some other world. When we share the seasons, the earth, the food, the water with them, why not the problems that they are facing today? Why are we sitting and calling them as those who have been traumatized by the nature instead of sharing our spaces with them? What is that which is stopping us from feeling and translating into actions the belongingness that we have with them. Why are they “they” not “us”? Why are we not asking our leaders to rescue those people and bring them to safe territories in which we are living safe from the Tsunami and the radiation? Where are they leading us?: to being more and more cold and unfeeling towards life. We are witnessing life being destroyed, our fellow beings being killed and affected with no end by the radiation, and we are doing nothing. We have left everything to our leaders who will collect funds and divert some of the national savings to the rescue camps for our affected fellow beings, but we are not a bit moved by the prospects of inviting them to our places.
