what is war?

This is a good reflection about war!



Does it matter? - losing your legs?...
For people will always be kind,
And you need not show that you mind
When the others come in after hunting
To gobble their muffins and eggs.

Does it matter? - losing your sight?...
There's such splendid work for the blind;
And people will always be kind,
As you sit on the terrace remembering
And turning your face to the light.

Do they matter? - those dreams from the pit?...
You can drink and forget and be glad,
And people won't say that you're mad;
For they'll know you've fought for your country
And no one will worry a bit.

Siegfried Sassoon

De regresso

Estou de volta,não encontrei o que procurava, ou então não procurei no lugar certo. Esta constante busca alimenta o meu percurso e faz-me sentir mais confiante e acredito que estou no bom caminho!
As palavras prendem-se, escondem-se, fogem, com acordo ou sem acordo está dificil encontrar a palavra certa, com o significado certo no contexto certo. serei eu que estou a mudar ou o mundo não me deixa mais ver o que gosto de ver. Olho para o olhar das minhas filhar e conforto-me com o sentir, a esperança e a alegria com que olham para mim!! Tem sido muito bom sentir todo o amor e carinho que me dão! São as minhas princesas a razão da minha vida!!

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

How am I going to be?

Just to reflect !

These are Brian Orend's questions on the matters of war, I see them as an onset to reflection: "War's violent nature, and controversial social effects, raise troubling moral questions for any thoughtful person. Is war always wrong? Might there be situations when it can be a justified, or even a smart, thing to do? Will war always be part of human experience, or can we do something to make it disappear? Is war an outcome of unchangeable human nature or, rather, of changeable social practice? Is there a fair and sensible way to wage war, or is it all hopeless, barbaric slaughter? When wars end, how should post-war reconstruction proceed, and who should be in charge? What are our rights, and responsibilities, when our own society makes the move to go to war?"

T S Eliot 's Burnt Norton

I hope you follow me in this "flow" over time!
"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden. My words echo
Thus, in your mind.
...

War

Everyone asks me why I chose to work on this subject-WAR. And my answer is always the same, man has survived fighting for something, we all go through our lives fighting our own wars. We are humans, war has been side by side with us throughout our history.
Nowadays life everywhere we know it has a war being fought, why? Because men believe in something and keep on making wars, keep on thinking they are right and a war is needed!

Contradições

Sempre que me sento e penso vou escrever, vem aquele bloqueio que quem escreve tão bem conhece! Um calafrio no estomago, as mãos a tremerem, as incertezas, o desconforto e a sensação que ainda não lemos tudo, que falta mais um artigo, mais umas páginas, enfim, as palavras fogem no teclado, e com elas o conforto e a certeza de que sabemos e vamos escrever!
Devia fazer como Bradbury diz "write everyday!" I have to start time flies!

WAR

Nowdays whenever we turn on the TV, we have news about conflicts everywhere, people are getting depressed, no one tries to calm down!! Everything seems so distant but at the same time so close, our children question us about what is happening, why people keep on fighting, killing each other and we don't have a real answer, I keep on saying it is a part of the human being that we should try to leave back, but that has been with us since ever. The art of war has been "enriched" with technology, but men's attitudes haven't changed.

dreamer

I always see myself as a dreamer, and I have to keep on dreaming to be alive. Everything seems to run away from me, even the books... the more I read the more I want to read, this is the best!
I have to think upon things as challenges, and I have to keep on fighting for my dreams!