Writing from Sri Lanka.........

A drizzle at the dawn brought about an idea for today as it is not going to be a day with scorching hot sun. Then I thought of sleeping a little more as it is going to be the final day of the vacation. After waking up around 9.30 am as usual morning routine I checked my phone for the new texts from friends one group chat has a photo of a church ruins. I thought it to be photos of the Notre-Dame church and then scrolled down to see the most unexpected and tragic event of my whole life. This is not another report, just some thoughts built up as the day went by.

 It has been so long we heard Breaking News. We are not used to this. We are the grown up kids who thought we will never deal with something like this. It is tragic and heartless; just the thought of someone having the emotional capacity to organize something like this, break our hearts.

I could not stop my tears. 

We are a small country. Despite the need of small fraction people to break us apart for selfish short-sighted reasons, we have friends in all nationalities and all religions. We are Sri Lankans; not Sinhala Buddhists or Tamil Catholics. We are Sri Lankans. We share the same sky and we breath in the same air. We study together, eat together and during fasting season we engage in it with our friends. That is how large our scope is. We are proud to say the number of friends we have around the country because we are friends.

As the morning sunlight pierced through the rainy clouds it brought all those panic and sadness to us. The requests for blood donations were met by the afternoon as there were overflowing crowds at the blood bank. Once again it reminded me of how proud I am to be a Sri Lankan despite the tragic reason behind the reason for blood donation. 

So as my previous post it is once again needed to say, We all as Homo sapience descended to land from a tree tops to act like the most intelligent being on earth. We developed a language so we can talk things through. We chose democracy over kings killing on another for power. We chose parliament system to select people to represent us. We live by rules and norms. We learn to respect people. That is how we intellectually developed as Homo sapience. So let's hope no one need to reverse those steps and everyone will go forward..!!

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