Raining tears
on September 27, 2007
Category: Governance, The World, Human Rights, Journal
A mixture of too much travel, personal issues, life changes, relocating and just plain old tiredness equals Blogger purgatory - that place you find yourself when you cannot think, read or write. Not only have I hardly written anything I have hardly read any blogs for weeks so today in the hope of finding some inspiration I checked out a few. I ended up feeling worse. All my daily and weekly reads full of pages of posts and still no inspiration. I did find one post that linked to a series of photos of the Burmese Buddhist monks protesting in Rangoon.
But seriously, these peaceful Burmese monks marching in their thousands for 7 days now in defiance of a repressive military regime - have given me my greatest inspiration this year.
I spent a long time staring at this photo hoping again to be inspired. I saw a young man with faith and courage standing in the rain for something he truly believed in. It should have inspired me but it just made me feel sad and humble as the drops of rain turned into the tears of thousands and thousands of people who just couldn’t take it any more.
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10 Comments so far
1. fab
September 27th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
That’s a beautiful picture.
I hear you sister…I send you replenishing love vibes your way. Take the time you need — taking care of yourself is foremost.
2. Kym Platt
September 28th, 2007 at 1:37 am
I miss you Sokari.
Peace.
3. Nasra
September 28th, 2007 at 7:59 am
When I read you through your words and between the spaces…sadness lingered in the air, it pinchem me too…
4. JohnN
September 28th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Its funny how no one cared about Myanmar/Burma 2 week ago.
5. Sokari
September 28th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Fab, Kym, and Nasra - thanks for hearing and understanding!
JohnN - what utter nonsense! Who are you to make judgements about how people feel or what they cared about before now or in the future! Such negativity!
6. Rista
September 28th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
JohnN, perhaps you should speak for yourself. Many of us are familiar with the Burmese struggle (and the fact that they prefer the colonial name-Burma since they didn’t exactly get independent with the military one-Myanmar). Glad things are moving for them.
7. Herbert
September 29th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
The sad fate confronting the Burmese people is yet another example of Western governments age-long hypocrisy.It is the window through which sees the soul of the expansionist and communist China.
Collectively,they are only interested in oil and gas.They do not have the interest of the Burmese people at heart.But finally their days are numbered.In the end,Truth must prevail over falsehood.Step by step all the deprived and humiliated peoples of the world,From Africa to Asia,From Europe to Australia shall be free at last.
The UN on the other hand has been unable to perform one of its primary functions which is to protect lives and properties.The Big five(permanent members of the security concil) which incidentally are the major instigators of all major conflicts around the world remain adamant even in the face human catastrophies.We must call to mind that it was these myopic and selfish tendencies of the then rich nations the plunged the world into the two world wars.The League of Nations became a lameduck and political tool used by the big Nations to advance their political interest.Once again the world is caught in this vicious cirlce.We are once again on the edge of the cliff.Like the ghost at the lima junction our leaders are confused.
The only solution is the expansion of the Security Council to meet mordern challenges,and the re-organisation of its body and functions.The current veto fomular beats ones imagination hollow.It is totally unreasonable and unacceptable.In the absence of this long-overdue reform these powers would continue to torment humanity especially the underdeveloped and poor nations.Then and only then will people everywhere know peace.
Aluta continua.
8. Herbert
September 29th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Dear sokari,
My last contribution on gay issue was not posted.I wish you could provide an answer.
thanks,
Herbert.
9. Changeseeker
September 30th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Dear Heart, you may not know that I walked a similar path recently. I left a state in which I had lived for eighteen years, where my son died, where I lived through and grew from many difficult realities, and came to a state where the way I see things is often anathema. I didn’t blog to speak of for nearly two months and didn’t read any other blogs for about six weeks (wasn’t even on line for a month and missed it little given my mindset). But eventually, almost startlingly, I woke up one day and felt the fog had lifted a bit. The next thing I knew, I was reading a bit of news and a small urging inside me raised its head to say, “You need to write about this.”
It will happen for you, though it will decide its own speed. Don’t despair or try to force. Give it the time it needs and your soul will catch up with your body. In the meantime, love yourself, drink in the beauty that is around you, and let yourself heal. When you are ready, we will be here.
10. Sokari
September 30th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Herbert@ Please could you tell me which post you are referring too? I have all my spam settings on very strong due to a huge amount of spam and nasty comments about 6 weeks ago so maybe it got caught in the spam catcher. Please could you repost the comment? Thank you.