What Did We Lose

If you take a good look at this world, it sometimes makes you wonder. How did the world end up like this? In a matter of years, we have learned to fear. If you look back about thirty years ago, the world didn’t really know what a terrorist was. However, if you switch on the television, and they mention an event, there is a tangible worry that someone is going to kill everyone, or try and kill everyone that goes to that event. In only a matter of years, we have to worry all the time about having a good time with other human beings.

The world has been a dangerous place for many years. Make no mistake about that, it always have been brutal. However, what this world has never been, is random. There is always a reason for something happening, and most of the time you could trace it from your actions and that reason for an event happening.

However, with terrorist, we all know why they want to kill us in general, mainly because we don’t conform to their beliefs, so they actively kill us for no reason. We all know that.

Nevertheless, although we know the reason, the difference is that there is no reason for all this killing. We might know the ideology of the attack, but ultimately there is no rhyme or reason to these random attacks. They just happen.

So with that in mind, it is the reason that makes terrorism so horrible, but also so fearful, because you can get use to it in the moments where it is quite. On the other hand, if we were at an all out war, it wouldn’t hurt as much because we are all prepared. We are ready for the worst, but most of all, it is something never to get use to.

With terrorism, there is no enemy so to speak. Yes, in general, they will be Middle Eastern Muslim men or women. However, that is not always the case. So you are left with broken bodies and no one to blame, and even if you have someone to blame, you are told not to blame, because, yes it is true, but it isn’t everyone in that one group who is responsible.

In many ways that answers the question----How could we just let this happen? How can every event where there are least more than a hundred people, we need to be worried. The reason this has become all normal, is that we are at war, but we are at war with shadows. We are at war, but we are at war while we live in peace. Meaning, that we have peace so we do not war, and thus live like this.

We simply live like this, because the world is not at war in the literal sense. There are no armies to fight or destroy. It is only people hiding in the shadows. And when they do reveal themselves we do war. But we war in manner that is not prepared.

In conclusion, the reason all this has crept upon us, and why it feels normal, though it be horrible, is that, this has been a gradual event. We live like this because there is no discernible enemy in sight.You cannot be in a state of war when you have to pay taxes or go to work to feed your family. You cannot do anything, but just live your life. If there is no one to fight all the time, you cannot be paid or treated differently, because there is no enemy in sight. So this is why we live like this;We are at peace, but not in our minds.