is it kill and conquer?

I'm told most victories are like that... People are killed, and the territory is conquered!

But I thought it was otherwise, I thought it was just about the armies, yes I know that they are also people who end up dying... but when an army is defeated its victory. The people of that land end up working for the victorious, the wealth is that of the victorious... but is there need for still more bloodshed?

I clearly see no point in it. There might be suppression of freedom of the citizens, maybe killing of the rebellion, but helpless, non threatening individuals? I was told the old are killed, the women are targeted! Why? What's the gain? If the new place and its wealth is now yours, aren't the people there too in some sense?

I find it something very difficult to digest. Even in the armies... isn't it victory over the mind and not the body. The minute they surrender, should there be any more killing?

for a change..:)

on a lighter note...

just stumbled upon this one

:)
incurable means... curable from within!

wish...

NOW is the time...

and the earth says...

and while you write,
i attempt to read...
the pattern in the necklace beads,
the flow of life from root to seeds.

and while to sleep,
i try to breath...
the smell of love,
so far yet deep.

and while you talk,
i try to hear...
the sound of energy,so faint but near.

and while you laugh,
i wait to cry...
over all the years gone by.
when life and love and energy were known...
when the leaf would sit the water throne...
and the sun would make you smile not groan.

angel

we're all each other's demons and angels...

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Time will have its fancy...

tomorrow or today!

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is'nt everything we're doing...to be..tobe loved a little more..??

-all parts of this movie called 'before sunrise'

life begets smile...

I just got myself this plant to keep in my house...

and just imagining it grow day after day, the anticipation of seeing those corner buds bloom... just knowing that there's this thing silently growing, breathing, living while I do all of that in the very same space, just makes life so much fuller.

:)

Teacher teacher

Pain instructs...

I'm reading a book called 'God is dead' by Ron Currie. And today as I read it in the tube crammed between people, holding the book in one hand and the overhead support in one, I came across this phrase 'Pain instructs'. And like the very many little phrases that make you stop and think, this one did too. And it dawned how true! Pain instructs! The lessons we learn through pain are the lessons best learnt. We go out of the way to not repeat the mistake, we always always remember...

But even as efficiently as it works, its sure not the favourite way of learning. But yes, pain instructs!

its been a while...

Sometimes we don't do things we want to do so that others won't know we want to do them.
- Quote from the movie The Village

its been a while....

home...

Its strange when you live in one country, belong to another and have placement of family in a way to make things even more different.
Its strange when you have to decide what is 'home'.
Somehow the 'home is where the heart is' also does not hold good.
I've not yet changed the clock on my laptop to show me what time it is back home. I read the Indian newspaper to know how it is there. My eyes and ears always are alert to pick up something that reminds me of home.Oh that warmth, that voice , those eyes.
Everyday after work I'm super glad to get back home... I'm always looking for ways to make it complete...that little bin, that little lampshade... I'm always looking forward to get back home and chat up with flatmate, cook and eat with her. To get back home and read and sleep. ah what comfort at home...
Everyday I long to be with parents, want to go home and eat food mom cooked... help at home with the chores... hear the family fight over little things at home....
Its strange that they all make me feel at home! :)