France
08-17-2006, 05:06 AM
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Louis Armstrong sings “What a wonderful world”.
In many ways it is a wonderful world – with its beautiful people, beautiful flowers, the mountains and the oceans, the white snow; the birds and the colourful butterflies and of course the beautiful music.
And yet, it is not as wonderful as it should be – our World is marred, spoiled and flawed by the greediness, prejudice, hate, lust, envy and jealousy of our fellowmen. Crimes of all sorts occur daily in most of our cities in England: Sex crimes, crimes for money; someone is killed just because he is black or white or Asian - pure prejudice. I don’t about in other countries.
When a few years ago an 8 year old girl was kidnapped, raped and then killed by a man, for two weeks I had to hide myself so that I was not seen to be too shamingly sobbing; and that was despite the fact that I did not know the girl or her parents; they lived in another town far from me.
But why did I cry so much for someone I never knew? I cried because I felt so much for what that child and her parents went through. It is not impossible or even difficult to feel for another human being; one just has to stop and think. But most of us have no time for other people and their problems; we think too much of only ourselves.
Yes, we all have our share of problems in this world, but if only we could give a thought now and then about other people, accept and respect everyone for who they are, I think it would make a big difference to our world. It could be indeed a wonderful world.
Is that not worth having?
France Chorley
Louis Armstrong sings “What a wonderful world”.
In many ways it is a wonderful world – with its beautiful people, beautiful flowers, the mountains and the oceans, the white snow; the birds and the colourful butterflies and of course the beautiful music.
And yet, it is not as wonderful as it should be – our World is marred, spoiled and flawed by the greediness, prejudice, hate, lust, envy and jealousy of our fellowmen. Crimes of all sorts occur daily in most of our cities in England: Sex crimes, crimes for money; someone is killed just because he is black or white or Asian - pure prejudice. I don’t about in other countries.
When a few years ago an 8 year old girl was kidnapped, raped and then killed by a man, for two weeks I had to hide myself so that I was not seen to be too shamingly sobbing; and that was despite the fact that I did not know the girl or her parents; they lived in another town far from me.
But why did I cry so much for someone I never knew? I cried because I felt so much for what that child and her parents went through. It is not impossible or even difficult to feel for another human being; one just has to stop and think. But most of us have no time for other people and their problems; we think too much of only ourselves.
Yes, we all have our share of problems in this world, but if only we could give a thought now and then about other people, accept and respect everyone for who they are, I think it would make a big difference to our world. It could be indeed a wonderful world.
Is that not worth having?
France Chorley