THE LONG ROAD TO NOWHERE















“Because of indifference,
one dies before one actually dies.”

Elie Wiesel

My last post was about why it is important for us – in times like this – to focus positively on things within our control. Aptly, I called it ‘on what is inside our doors’.

What happens in the outside world – outside our doors – is beyond our control. Yes, we are concerned about them… Like when we see the heart-wrenching images of mass exodus of poor people… walking hundreds of miles toward their villages, holding their little babies and bags, in this scorching heat with no food, water or shelter… no money… no hope. Watching these images makes us numb… even guilty and ashamed when we eat our food and switch on our fans and air-conditioners… Some of us are unable to sleep and even feel uncomfortable when we close our bathroom doors!

Are these not the same people, who till the other day, made our ‘Wheel’ roll?

And, suddenly, the fear has taken them over, and they have thrown themselves out of the windows!








God, please save them!

And, you and I can only pray to God: “God please send your angels on earth, whoever they may be – the Government, NGOs, generous businessmen, any Good Samaritans, any one – and help these innocent souls on the roads” …

You and I can only pray to God asking Him to give light to those who are blinded by racial ignorance and hate…

You and I can only ask God to give light to each and every one of us who is acting with such insensitivity about any person affected by the Virus…








We all reveal our true selves in crisis like this!

There is a selfish side in all of us… A darker side!

So, even though what we see - out on the roads - today, is beyond our control, it can help us look within us and see how we can do away our own inner darkness, and, yes, convert our selfishness into compassion…

And, yes, as a friend of mine just wrote to me, “If you can’t go outside, go inside”!






GERALD D’CUNHA

Pic.: 1. QUARTS INDIA  2. Unknown source

Videos: 1. CNN-News18  2. Mark Knopfler/Andreea Petcu

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