Human Extinction Preponed?

Violence in this whole wide world does not seem to cease. There is absolutely no let up. In India Kashmir blasts and Mumbai train blasts happened on the same day. Baghdad has never had peace for more than 10 days since the invasion of Kuwait? Recent car bombs and suicide bombers have killed hundreds of innocent commoners in Baghdad. After all for how long can men, women and children stay at home. There are things to do for a family. Men have to go to work; otherwise they have more serious job of looking for it. Women have to go out to shop for stuff to cook. A family may consist of parents, infants, small kids, grown up children, old or infirm, all kinds of people. They have to be fed and taken care of. They may have to be taken to the hospital or medicines to be purchased. Most of the population of Baghdad must be suffering from some form of physical damages to their limbs and if not that then most definitely anxiety or tension related diseases would be affecting most people, if not all!

The oldest country torn with unending violence near me is Afghanistan. As per surveys a large percentage of children in rural Afghanistan have had experience of being hit by either a bullet or by a landmine sometime or the other. Many have suffered multiple wounds and most of them have lost limbs in the process. We all have seen these visuals on TV news channels many times. We have seen those pathetic shots of young kids playing around, either limping with the help of stick or using just one good hand to hold the bat; but laughing and screaming while playing among each other. Kids cannot help but be kids. They have to playful. No one can lower the happiness and energy of a child. But sadly they don’t know that life with all limbs intact could be much different.

Why have we all allowed violence to become an inherent part of us? Why the losses of our near and dear ones have stopped bothering us? Why have our egoistic principles fogged our vision so much, that we can not see us are becoming worse than animals? We did become worse than animals as soon as we developed our capacity of think. We only thought of our selfish interests at the cost of others…

But the main point now is to find if there is way out? Is there still a point of return or we have crossed it? If there is any hope then who should take up the responsibility of asking questions, and to whom? Who should be informing violent groups that something could be done which will guarantee them a meal when hungry with peace and stability? Their family can live safely, raise and educate children, be part of the sensible world. Is someone out there who can contact the restless heads of this world and offer them advice to come to the table and think it over? How long can the human beings survive, remaining inhuman? Why can’t one think that he could live in peace and riches in his own homeland in place of struggling to find refuge in the caves of a foreign land? Have all the sensibilities died? Do killings solve problems or it gives others more chances to get back at you later? So many WHYs, but no answers!

"Violence is the real thing. We all are basically violent; non-violence is just a concept." If this maxim is so completely true, then we could stop our search for these answers and wait for the Homo Sapiens to get extinct.