There Are No New Beginnings

A blue morning sky is rent by the cries of mourning. A mother – for her 18 year old child, who died in a car accident. He was her oldest, her favorite son. She still remembered his birth. She remembered his first walk and his first lessons at school. She remembered his first crush – he shared his life with her, willing her to live it with him – and now he was gone… his life snuffed out, just like that, in an instant…

His entire life had been ahead of him; He had been accepted into one of the country’s most prestigious universities on a full sports scholarship and why not? He deserved it. His dreams were finally coming true. But, an accident that left him crippled for life changed all that. His once shining future now lay in shambles before him and as he lay on the hospital bed, he realized that that life would never be the same again.

My exceedingly optimistic fellow beings seem to be obsessed with the ‘a new sun dawning every theory’. Have they not heard of the genocide in Rwanda. Where an estimated 800,000 people were killed where the slaughtered people were seen floating down the Kigara River. Where neighbors were forced to kill each other and where people were forced to murder members of their own family. Do you actually expect the two warring parties to walk arm in arm with each other after such a catastrophe, in the name of a ‘new beginning’? You’ve got to be kidding me.

The Palestinians were forced to resort to suicide bombing against the Israelis. Men, women and children with bombs strapped to their bodies calmly walked into an enemy camp and blew themselves up into a million pieces. That’s how much they had suffered. That’s how desperate they were. Kashmiri children carry guns instead of books in their hands. Iraqis have lost their houses and families. Do you honestly expect parents who have buried their children with their own hands, or children who have witnessed their parents being butchered, to wake up one fine morning, see the sun all bright and shiny, and go: hey! I guess its time for a new beginning. 

Global warming is being shouted off the roof tops today. The ozone layer is depleting at a horrific rate. We can see the results first hand with dramatic climate changes never seen before. Hurricanes, Tsunamis, cyclones are becoming alarmingly common. And so now, people trying to take steps to curb this phenomenon. Mind you the word is curb, not REVERSE. Here specifically there is no new beginning, the ozone that is gone, is gone and whatever you do, it isn’t coming back.

It is nearly impossible to erase the experiences that have shaped one in to what they are. And so the fact remains, there never is a new beginning. Never!