Having no other choice doesn’t make things right. We celebrate it because that’s the only choice for us. How weird it is that a whole family is destroyed and we celebrate it! Someone lost her father and we go all gung-ho about patriotism, sacrifice and what not. No one feels proud of a death, they are rather made to feel proud. The brave face, the eyes that hold tear, is a social choice that people make. The memory can not touch the feet of the parents and bring smiles. The memory cannot love the wife who has suddenly lost half of her self. The memory can’t raise that kid of 18 months. When feelings become ‘relative’, it is sad situation. But we, somehow conditioned by various constructs around us, have come to a point in time where it is a ‘relative’ feeling. There is much more to some news than just being a news. What does that mean to you? Maybe nothing maybe something maybe everything, depending on where you stand. An army of widows and orphans! This phrase was used by a very dear friend of mine.
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