What a day to see on the TV screen the carnage caused by terrorists attacks on Mumbai, India. Yet minutes later came an advertisement showing a cripsy green leafy vegetable in a dessert bowl, exhorting the values of eating well. Surely people who do bad things must have somehow crossed the path of good things in their lives. Surely they know what is right from wrong...or are they so engulfed with their causes that nothing matters any more.
Innocent lives are lost needlessly. Here I have a close relative who is fighting for her life, determined to challenge the ravages of cancer. Yet in Mumbai lives are extinguished because someone called the shot. What a shame to kill especially under the guise of a religious cause. Yesterday I thought of saving my thoughts about promoting tourism and trade to write about today. But alas with travel warnings on India and Thailand, there's nothing much that can be done about tourism for now until the dust is settled.
I have been discussing with a group of friends of what we should do over Christmas. Perhaps we should plan early and pick the bargains; perhaps we should go out and spend some money to help fan the economy in whatever little way we can. Maybe..maybe that's the way to enjoy this season of Peace. It all begins with each of us, doing our little things, in our own little way, and it will somehow sprinkle that same feelings onto others, like the sprayed perfume where the scent will waft in the air and cling on to others around us.
Should we hold a Do Good Day, which should be observed internationally so that we can bring those who have gone astryed back to the mainstream of life. It won't be too difficult to organise such a campaign. But someone was quick to point out that the media may not give it the ventillation it needs because is no drama and no sensational headline to offer. At best it will hit the inside pages. Perhaps it may just get a one-paragraph report, or none at all unless the organisers buy an advertisement. Perhaps I shall begin with myself and do something good today by paying a visit to my sick relative and say a prayer in the hope that like all good prayers they will be answered someday, in someway.
