Just when you think you can sit back and try to
enjoy the peacefulness you desperately sought after, the world overwhelms you
with its conflicts, hatred and despair of normal life...
And General Insanity creeps in
Every day....
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I absolutely cannot stand it when people make such a big protest over something, with a battle cry that the situation is controversial, emotional and sensitive for them. And get this, the situation happened 200 years ago...
Yes, slavery. It was a horrible thing to happen. Many innocents died a horrible death and I truly abhor the concept of slavery. But guess what? Many innocent people died in the World Wars too. In fact, my granduncle was taken and shot on the shores on Changi beach but do I go up to every Japanese and spit in their faces and tell them what a disgrace they are??? No!! Some of them weren't even responsible for it!!! So I cannot accept a demonstration of protest in the MIDDLE of a church memorial service dedicated to all the slaves and the ones who abolished slavery. Where's the respect???? What gives anyone the right to disrupt something so solemn? Apparently, the excuse is that it was an emotional moment for the protestor.. REALLY?? Was he chained or made to work in a sugar plantation in Jamaica??? I can understand if his great great grandfather says it's emotional and sensitive but this protestor? How can it be emotional for you when you've probably spent your whole life in the UK as a free man and worked and earned money as a free man? I don't see YOU getting whipped or tortured! Get over it! You curse at the Queen and Tony Blair for not apologising (for something they weren't even born to witness, let alone be responsible for..) and when this service is held as a way of an apology, you tell them they're shameless and disgusting!
Talk about the ridiculous.. You know what, let the Japanese of today beat up every American for what happened to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, let every Indian and Burmese spit on the British for years of torture under colonialism.. or let every present day Jew sue their German counterparts for emotional trauma during the Holocaust.. oh, and while we're all settling ancient scores, let the Christians and Muslims continue their senseless Holy War against each other to settle the last Holy War we had 700 years ago!! Oh, I forgot, that's already happening...
For Pete's sake, why can't we all let go of history and learn from it instead of learning to hate because of it.. It'll make this world a more peaceful place to live in.
Chloe Andrina
7:05 AM
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