i seldom follow the lives and lines of international or
national movie stars, but a recent quote that i came across got me thinking and
did tempt me to pen down my views.
These words by Angelina Jolie make so much sense today with countries combating poverty, hate crimes and militants, all at one go. It is appalling to know children are dying out of hunger and disease in some part of the world for the only reason that they were born in the wrong country; that a hapless government, with its own set of international debts and internal agitations, hasn’t got funds enough to feed its people. How fare is it that while one country strives to put together these funds to feed and nurse its ill, another spends billions on putting together ammunitions for the Armageddon?
“I am the kind of
person who doesn't recognize borders. I don't understand why we think it is
okay to keep someone within one border when they are unable to feed their
family when they could be getting help somewhere else. I don't see people as
different so I don't understand the idea of borders in this world.”
These words by Angelina Jolie make so much sense today with countries combating poverty, hate crimes and militants, all at one go. It is appalling to know children are dying out of hunger and disease in some part of the world for the only reason that they were born in the wrong country; that a hapless government, with its own set of international debts and internal agitations, hasn’t got funds enough to feed its people. How fare is it that while one country strives to put together these funds to feed and nurse its ill, another spends billions on putting together ammunitions for the Armageddon?
Couldn’t there be a way that the United Nations or the World
Bank probably, like many other international regulations, makes it mandatory
that every developed nation puts aside a fixed sum of money for the les misérables of the world. When the good-fortuned can glide past physical boundaries
of a country to fix their businesses and salaries, why shouldn’t there be some
way that the ill-fortuned get treatments, food, or even shelter across borders
at minimum expenses.
When there’s no census on how many birds flew past the
border and how many remained in the country, i wonder why we bother to have the
same for humans. When nature doesn’t confine itself within borders, why then
would a part of the desert be India and the other Pakistan! Why should one end
of the road be in the US of A and the other in Mexico, while they could have
rather been a part of one unified nation, that which belonged to the whole
mankind. Couldn’t the world tread along in the direction set by the European
Union?
From the current standing of the nations of the world, visa
regulations to travel from one part of the moon to another, could soon be the
norm, even before we decide who’s gonna travel next to the moon. On a lighter
note, if this was a world without borders, i could be an Indian and still be
saved from the months-long visa process to travel abroad for a vacation! True, that wouldn't be called travelling “abroad”, then!
This Diwali, when it’s time to celebrate the festival of lights, i pray for a world without borders, one that would bring life, light and peace to all, across borders, religions and ethnicity. i pray for a world that is united in a mission, to bring smiles on the faces of the less-fortuned.
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| Let the divine lamp light the lives of one and all! Happy Diwali all! |
This Diwali, when it’s time to celebrate the festival of lights, i pray for a world without borders, one that would bring life, light and peace to all, across borders, religions and ethnicity. i pray for a world that is united in a mission, to bring smiles on the faces of the less-fortuned.
