Finally and officially; winters are out. Flowers are in full bloom and leaves look fresh. My garden has finally started to take some shape (un uniform, but still its a shape). Plans of heading back to northern hills for a consecutive snow fall, remained a plan this year.
My radio station played a "peace day" transmission yesterday, one year after attacks on Srilankan cricket team in Lahore. We in Pakistan need peace, as much as any other country in this world.
The idea of peace missing from the planet in the first place, has some missing pieces in itself. The salvation army of fine few gentlemen among the elite ruling classes from all corners of the world, don't happen to share the same view of the reality. Commercial interests in the media of developing nations can't do justice with the subject, even in years to come. Peace is a quality of existing in harmony, sometimes its referred as the state in which hostility is either zero or negligible. Spiritual gurus would like to draw more individual meaning of it, while commercial pundits would tend to exhibit a rather more complex, social and far from achieving state of our collective destiny.
Billions of dollars worth of arms, ammunition and war machinery is being sold every month to nations, who have been (in a marvelous orchestration of international diplomacy) brought to think of being hostile to groups, enemy nations and a vague ideology of hatred, violence and bloodshed. Its "Osama" for americans, home grown "alqaeda" for british, "Hamas" for israelis, "Colombians" for venezuelans, "India" for pakistan, "Japan" for China, "North Korea" for Japan, "Yemen" for Saudi Arabia... and so on....
Usually its Nations versus Nations, while sometimes its terrorist, separatists, ethnic nationalists, raising alarms for people through; "round the clock" media and news.
From monarchs to democracies, leaders today are more often thought to be individuals with ability to protect our body and soul, unlike their predecessors who used to inspire masses of dreams and progress. Today populations around the globe, breathing in a mixture of economic and security crisis have started to ponder into ideals, which only in last decade was considered to be cynical.
It was a sorrow full autumn. Followed by a rough winter. Hopefully, with this spring, things will blossom for good.
We all had enough, and nature has its own course.
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