With ANZAC day coming up, there are a few war films being shown on tv. Tonight, they are showing "The Pacific" and "Gallipoli" was advertised during commercial breaks.
Many thoughts flashed through my mind.
1. I won't want to see the day where my kid (if I have a husband and kid in future and a boy) has to serve any country in war.
I don't even want to try to imagine how the wives or mothers of soldiers, left behind, feel...
2. I hope I don't get into any trouble saying this. So far no one has really agreed fully with this view of mine yet.
I don't feel overly patriotic as I don't feel any country should own me. Each should feel free to love and go anywhere they are at. I've lived my childhood and adolence in my birth country; then teenage yrs to now an adult in my permanent residence country. I seriously don't want to choose. Both have their pros and cons. I love both in their own ways. Why do we have to choose? And why should we need to choose a side to fight for if there ever was a war?
If no one choose a side to fight war, then no country will have resources to support/fight any war they are trying to create!!?? And therefore, no war??? Yay!? That's my utopia.
2 comments:
Hmm..your opinion is quite insightful. Never thought of it that way. I guess we're one of those who suffer an identity crisis..can't really identify where we really belong...coz maybe we don't really have a specific country we belong in?
Yes the feeling of sending your son to NS is quite awful. My mom was utterly worried! For what I don't know. Guess I'll never know unless I'm a mom myself.
I guess we don't have to belong to anyone or anything. Afterall, we r all individual beings. We like to belong coz we like familiarity. But we can also just be human beings who walk this world n be free to go anywhere we want to. And we alone decides where we want to anchor ourselves for how ever long, for whatever reasons.
NS is different I think. Mothers will worry coz they don't want their kid to suffer hardship of training, of not eating n sleeping well. War is another world of it's own. What r we fighting for? A country's safety is e secondary reason. It was someone else's feud or greed that initially started e war resulting in us need to fend our family and e area we call home. For any woman to see their husband or son go to war n there is nothing one can do. I can't even image what goes through their head during e absense of their loved ones. =|
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