When I were to look at myself, I usually come out from a point where I think, “I deal with my own problems first”. This is just probably myself looking at situations, circumstances that come across me in my life. I believe and I conclude by believing this, that this is not a selfish thought because if I am able to deal with myself first then I am better able to help others in the same situation or learn to understand other people’s problems better too. It is just my opinion that’s helps me in its own way. I guess I feel inadequate to help someone else when I may have my own problems, and therefore I am not able to look at their problems in an objective way too.
Yesterday, we had a rock concert for the Japanese-quake victims at Kohima local ground. It is a very nice gesture I think, that we are thinking of people who are suffering elsewhere, facing difficult times right now. After the concert, I heard some youth below my house shouting and singing down the street. This just made me wonder whether we are considering someone else’s suffering. It made me wonder how the earthquake victims in Japan might be faring and also how lucky we were to be here, away from it all. I don’t think it is a wrong thing to be happy, to have fun in life but I just wondered if sometimes we can be complacent.
Perhaps we are too far away from Japan. It is a good thought to show we care. Yet again perhaps we’re too far away from it all too to actually realize or let it sink in how bad they may be suffering. Perhaps I would have just preferred calling the rock concert a “Rock Concert” and people were coming back from it drunk and singing, shouting on the way. That would have been better than not completely appreciating or understanding the purpose of the concert. There is a time to be happy and a time to be sober and I wonder if we mix that up often. In a way, I just felt we might disrespect the people who are actually suffering a lot through this ordeal. Perhaps if we cannot respect or show compassion, if we are too far from it all then we could do nothing to be truthful that we cannot fully relate to their suffering though we may sympathize. Perhaps this is not completely the people’s fault, nor is it the organization’s committee’s fault but perhaps something we can all think about too.
Its not such that we have to mourn for them or grief with them. I don’t think I can bring myself to that either, nor feel guilty for being unable to bring out those emotions from myself. I may feel sorry but this would be a different thing when it cannot relate to the pain that someone may be feeling because his/her loved one has died in this earthquake. I do not know the victims and therefore I cannot identify their pain as deeply. Perhaps that’s how reality works as well. That when we cannot really connect our sympathy or grief to someone whom we actually know has been affected in this earthquake we will not be able to relate to them. But perhaps we make it unbalanced when we associate a concert in their name but cannot fully relate to their sufferings and some of us oblivious of it too. Therefore we see something not tallying when we look at the bigger picture and then analyze ourselves on our deeds and the result from. Its not that we do not care but when we do not fully understand or are not directly affected we may not be able to bring out that sympathy in us. On my side, I just feel lucky that we have not been hit by an earth of a magnitude of 8.9 on the Ritcher scale last month.
I do not know Japanese people as such. Nor have I updated myself very well with the news lately. The little I have watched from bits of the news on TV and seeing people suffering there makes me feel sorry for them. We are lucky to not have been hit by an earthquake of that magnitude.
I believe most of the population today is educated and perhaps it is important in our own ways to be able to decide our rights and wrongs too. And that at times coming from ourselves, independent of an outside influence or someone deciding it for us. Whatever we are, we have the ability as human beings too to decide right and wrong in our own levels. I just feel a small need to express my mind on this and also whether concerts like these as well bring out our good sides or show a darker side of us. Hopefully we will and are headed the right direction
Ago, Kohima
Yesterday, we had a rock concert for the Japanese-quake victims at Kohima local ground. It is a very nice gesture I think, that we are thinking of people who are suffering elsewhere, facing difficult times right now. After the concert, I heard some youth below my house shouting and singing down the street. This just made me wonder whether we are considering someone else’s suffering. It made me wonder how the earthquake victims in Japan might be faring and also how lucky we were to be here, away from it all. I don’t think it is a wrong thing to be happy, to have fun in life but I just wondered if sometimes we can be complacent.
Perhaps we are too far away from Japan. It is a good thought to show we care. Yet again perhaps we’re too far away from it all too to actually realize or let it sink in how bad they may be suffering. Perhaps I would have just preferred calling the rock concert a “Rock Concert” and people were coming back from it drunk and singing, shouting on the way. That would have been better than not completely appreciating or understanding the purpose of the concert. There is a time to be happy and a time to be sober and I wonder if we mix that up often. In a way, I just felt we might disrespect the people who are actually suffering a lot through this ordeal. Perhaps if we cannot respect or show compassion, if we are too far from it all then we could do nothing to be truthful that we cannot fully relate to their suffering though we may sympathize. Perhaps this is not completely the people’s fault, nor is it the organization’s committee’s fault but perhaps something we can all think about too.
Its not such that we have to mourn for them or grief with them. I don’t think I can bring myself to that either, nor feel guilty for being unable to bring out those emotions from myself. I may feel sorry but this would be a different thing when it cannot relate to the pain that someone may be feeling because his/her loved one has died in this earthquake. I do not know the victims and therefore I cannot identify their pain as deeply. Perhaps that’s how reality works as well. That when we cannot really connect our sympathy or grief to someone whom we actually know has been affected in this earthquake we will not be able to relate to them. But perhaps we make it unbalanced when we associate a concert in their name but cannot fully relate to their sufferings and some of us oblivious of it too. Therefore we see something not tallying when we look at the bigger picture and then analyze ourselves on our deeds and the result from. Its not that we do not care but when we do not fully understand or are not directly affected we may not be able to bring out that sympathy in us. On my side, I just feel lucky that we have not been hit by an earth of a magnitude of 8.9 on the Ritcher scale last month.
I do not know Japanese people as such. Nor have I updated myself very well with the news lately. The little I have watched from bits of the news on TV and seeing people suffering there makes me feel sorry for them. We are lucky to not have been hit by an earthquake of that magnitude.
I believe most of the population today is educated and perhaps it is important in our own ways to be able to decide our rights and wrongs too. And that at times coming from ourselves, independent of an outside influence or someone deciding it for us. Whatever we are, we have the ability as human beings too to decide right and wrong in our own levels. I just feel a small need to express my mind on this and also whether concerts like these as well bring out our good sides or show a darker side of us. Hopefully we will and are headed the right direction
Ago, Kohima
