musings
i got home today after an OT and watched some TV... i happened to chance upon the documentary concerning beslan, russia in discovery channel today... (mind you, i didn't get to watch the whole thing 'coz i saw that it was already in the middle while i was watching hehe)
i remembered when it happened a year ago... i was so busy with school but i saw the story on the news... but that didn't prepare me for what i watched a while ago... and it was a pretty long documentary... it was just heartbreaking to see those things that were not released in the news... imagine more than a third of the hostages dying and a third of that third were children...
but one thing struck me the most in that segment... and it happened near the ending...
a mother, who was one of the surviving hostages, recounts a conversation with her son, who was also a survivor... she asked him if he wanted to move to another town... he refused saying that he was born there and he was staying... the tragic thing is that he, the mother recalls, always talks about revenge... now, as i've said, i came late into the show so i wasn't sure how old the child is... but if the child they were showing next were he, he can't be a teenager yet... the mother continued saying that she could not persuade the child to believe otherwise... she kept saying that every nation has its good and bad sides... and that everyone also had mothers there... not to mention that there were children like him...
however, he doesn't concede... and if he hears anything pertaining to chechnya (is the spelling correct?) or english (i hope i got the facts right ^^;), he continues with his talk of revenge...
it's sad... and as the saying goes, "so young... and so full of anger..." (ok, so it isn't a saying... star wars hehe sorry... but i think you know what i think right?) let's say it's an 8 to 13 year old kid thinking of taking out his anger to the world... what would become of us? children are the ones who we hope to take over our jobs in the future in order for our world to progress... but if they themselves will not do that and, instead lead a life that will lead to destruction...
as it is said in filipino...
paano na tayo? (rough translation: what about us? ; my somewhat intended meaning: what will happen to us?)
just random musings...
i remembered when it happened a year ago... i was so busy with school but i saw the story on the news... but that didn't prepare me for what i watched a while ago... and it was a pretty long documentary... it was just heartbreaking to see those things that were not released in the news... imagine more than a third of the hostages dying and a third of that third were children...
but one thing struck me the most in that segment... and it happened near the ending...
a mother, who was one of the surviving hostages, recounts a conversation with her son, who was also a survivor... she asked him if he wanted to move to another town... he refused saying that he was born there and he was staying... the tragic thing is that he, the mother recalls, always talks about revenge... now, as i've said, i came late into the show so i wasn't sure how old the child is... but if the child they were showing next were he, he can't be a teenager yet... the mother continued saying that she could not persuade the child to believe otherwise... she kept saying that every nation has its good and bad sides... and that everyone also had mothers there... not to mention that there were children like him...
however, he doesn't concede... and if he hears anything pertaining to chechnya (is the spelling correct?) or english (i hope i got the facts right ^^;), he continues with his talk of revenge...
it's sad... and as the saying goes, "so young... and so full of anger..." (ok, so it isn't a saying... star wars hehe sorry... but i think you know what i think right?) let's say it's an 8 to 13 year old kid thinking of taking out his anger to the world... what would become of us? children are the ones who we hope to take over our jobs in the future in order for our world to progress... but if they themselves will not do that and, instead lead a life that will lead to destruction...
as it is said in filipino...
paano na tayo? (rough translation: what about us? ; my somewhat intended meaning: what will happen to us?)
just random musings...