This morning I woke up happily
from a really good sleep, and as usual I picked up my phone to catch up with
the world. Most days I read through messages from friends, tweets from
people I follow, and YouTube and Facebook updates. But not today. Today my feeds
were filled with news about Paris. It took me a while, with my groggy sleep
filled eyes, to register the horrible thing that happened – in a series of
terrorist attack, 120 people were been killed and hundreds of others wounded in
the heart of France’s capital. I spent the morning watching the news mutely,
taking in the tragic scenes being broadcasted. Later in the day, I found out about the dual-bomb blast that took place in Beirut,
Lebanon which claimed the lives of 44 people, and left over 200 others injured.
To top it all off, I also learned of a huge earthquake that hit Japan putting the
whole island to be on tsunami alert. And then later in the evening, there was a blast in Baghdad, Iraq where 26 more innocent lives were taken.
Hearing all of this made me feel
a horrible mixture of emotions. First I was sad, and I thought about all those
innocent people in Paris and Beirut, who were just going about their business,
and are now dead. Then I felt angry. How could anyone do such terrible things?
I switched between these two emotions for a while till I was hit by a feeling I
liked the least – helplessness. I felt helpless because there is so much grief
and horror out there in the world today and there is nothing I could do about
it. I don’t know if you’ve ever felt it, but feeling like this is the absolute worst
because it’s as if you have lost all hope. It was like the world was
(literally) crumbling around me, and in that moment I wanted nothing more than
to make it better. But I couldn’t. To me, hope seemed lost and the world seemed
gray.
So there I sat, watching the
news, feeling very unlike my happy, peppy self. Then I came across a quote that
really cheered me up. It went like this –
This quote may seem simple and
rather unspectacular to you, but it really lifted my spirits today because it
reminded me of something very important- no matter how dark and miserable life may seem, there will always be hope. Hope for love, hope for peace, hope for a better tomorrow.
In fact, today, as
the world struggles to get back on its feet, we need hope more than ever
before. Yeah, bad things happen. But it doesn’t take much to see that the world
is filled with some really good people too. It may be hard for us to believe right now, but
they actually outnumber the bad- by A LOT! And I know that all of the good ones
stand with Beirut, Paris, Japan, Baghdad and all the other countries going through trying times, as they dust themselves off and stand tall once again. Things are
going to get better. They always have and they always will. It’s not a bad thing to feel sad, or
angry, or even hopeless sometimes. But always remember that there is hope, even in the darkest of times.
In fact, today, as
the world struggles to get back on its feet, we need hope more than ever
before. Yeah, bad things happen. But it doesn’t take much to see that the world
is filled with some really good people too. It may be hard for us to believe right now, but
they actually outnumber the bad- by A LOT! And I know that all of the good ones
stand with Beirut, Paris, Japan, Baghdad and all the other countries going through trying times, as they dust themselves off and stand tall once again. Things are
going to get better. They always have and they always will. It’s not a bad thing to feel sad, or
angry, or even hopeless sometimes. But always remember that there is hope, even in the darkest of times.
Take a moment today to think and
pray, not only for France, but also for those caught in the overlooked tragedies
in Lebanon, Japan, and Iraq. Give this a listen (it made me feel better XD)It’s on its way. Till then we run on hope.
And you know what? I think we’re
going to make it.
Until next time,
Bianka
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