The horrors of the world

In the Boston Marathon bombing, there is a foreign national among the dead. A Chinese national. She has a name- Lu Lingzi.

Many people have heard the news of this act of terror but most would not have given it much thought. It happened in a faraway land and had nothing to do with our lives.

But as fate would have it, their daughter was killed when she goes to this faraway land to become a better person. A person that could perhaps change the world into a better place, in her own way.

But now, the world will never know if she would be the one who would change this world. More importantly to the ones she left behind, they would not feel the happiness of being with her again.

Even a moment of imagining what it would feel like to be in their shoes fills me with dreadful sadness.

We have "killed" her.

We killed her in our ignorance and apathy.

We killed her because we believe that these things does not concern us. That it could only happen to other people. To someone who lived in a place far away from us. And we only read about these 'thing' in the news.

Yes. At one time the parent of Lu Lingzi may have also read about horrific news like this in the comfort of their home.

Yes, the world will continue to bear witness to these kind of news for as long as we refused to see behind the lies.

We called this news but they have been happening for a very, very long time now.

Yet it is so sad to read about them still.

But the saddest part is knowing the exact same tragedy is repeated in other parts of the world, over and over again of which most of us are unaware, in our blissful state of ignorance and apathy.

To Lu Lingzi and the other victims of this terror against humanity- may they rest in peace.

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain." - William James

“We are saved from moral anguish only by the fact that our acts of commission and omission ripple outward until their consequences are diluted and lost in the general happiness or unhappiness of humankind.” - Chet Raymo

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An article about Lu Lingzi and the other two victims: HERE