It has been almost 4 days. 4 days of terror, unimaginable, unprecedented terror. I am shocked, stunned. I am angry. And I am shit scared.
4 days ago on 26th November, few terrorists wrecked havoc in Mumbai. They fired openly at innocent people, took many people hostage & shattered couple of 5 star hotels.
Friends and family have been asking me how i am? I have to tell them i am fine, i am alive. That this time, i was safe. But am i really fine? Physically yes. Mentally?? I am shattered. I am scared. I will not be the same again. From now on whenever i travel in a bus or train, i will suspect each and every co-passenger. I will wonder whether any one of those is carrying a gun or a bomb. I will be scared to walk in open, to go to restaurants for dinner, go shopping in a mall. These terrorists have changed the way we live.
Mumbai has been attacked many times before. Everytime we have returned to normalcy quite fast. We have been resiliant. We have told the terrorists that what ever you do, we will not let it affect us. We will still live our lives the way we do. And this motivated them to come back at us harder and in a bigger way.
We have been resiliant enough. We have always become used to the life that we have been given. But its enough now. I have had enough. Its not time to be more resiliant. Its time to show the terrorists that we won't accept it any more. Its time to tell those people that if you attack us, you will be hurt more. For this we have to change. We have to stop accepting things and stop getting used to it. We have to start fighting.
Its time we stop blaming each other. Its time we stop being selfish. Its time we all unite and stand up against these messengers of terror and tell them that we have had enough. Either you stop or you pay the price.
Also its time to pay a tribute to all those brave commandos, army men & police men who laid their lives so that we could sleep peacefully. Thank you!
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i concur with u Tridy and agree with every word u spoke here
Thanks Sam. BTW I was expecting a bartender?? ;)
I am sorry if said anything callous. I am in chennai, so obviously I am quite a distance away from what is happening in Mumbai. Even then, I do feel some of your grief and pain.
But life has to go on... Even when someone dies in a family, people recover and continue with their day to day life.
The government has to be assertive, politicians, administrators and the media have to be more responsible.
But people like us, who don't have a hand in any of this, what are we to do?
Carry on feeding our anger, fear and pain?
I think the best thing we can do individually is to realise our responsibilities and do our particular job well...
Beyond that, there is nothing wrong if we smile and crack jokes...
But if we too are changed to approve the ideology of anger and violence, well, what makes us different?
Again, I repeat, I should be sorry if I said anything hurtful.
Wish you all well.
echoed my sentiments TRI...
Hi Basker. Welcome to my blog.
I agree with you that life should go on. That we cannot hold onto the past and continue to live in despair. But moving on doesn't mean that we should forget what happened. It doesn't mean that we will get used to what is happening again n again and start accepting it as a part of life. This is not my life. I don't want to live a life filled with fear and anger. We have left the job of protecting us to the politicians for far too long. We have seen that they are not at all capable of protecting us. Freak!! they are not even capable of pretending to be serious about this attack. They are hopeless. When I say that we should fight, I don't mean that we should take up arms and start blowing the terrorists away. I mean that we can protest. We have several media with us. The print media, the internet. We can all protest. We need to ask our so called leaders the right questions. Not only now but always. And we should demand answers. They should not get away without giving answers. We need answers. We need accountability. And we should have that.
And you need not be sorry. I only said what I felt. You might have a different opinion. You need not be sorry to express that here.
How are you feeling now?
Otts,
Things are slowly getting back to normal. But I feel the fear is still there. Yesterday 8kg of RDX was found in CST station. It was lying there for all these days and nobody found it. Strange isn't it?
Tri... there is more than what meets the eye in these blasts... looks like some group of people abroad has grand plans to take over the world.
Disintegration of this region is the first step.
Time to tip-toe cautiously and not believe anything that is being told.
Scorpi,
Considering today's blast in Peshawar ur point seems even more valid. We will have to go ahead very cautiously.
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