For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who don’t believe, no explanation is possible.
We are ready to go to war to defend something we believe in. But is what we believe in is right? Is it truly our own conviction or something we are programmed into?
The worst part is the majority of human race has forgotten reason. We fail to evaluate most of the things in life. Some we do but not all. We believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. We believe in anything simply because it is found written in our religious books, is telecasted on TV or appears in the newspapers. We believe in anything merely on the authority of our teachers and elders. We believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. It is after observation and analysis, when we find that anything agrees with reason and is worth practising, we should truly believe and live up to it.
In most cases people don't believe things because they don't want to believe, especially about a matter in which they are emotionally involved. It is a frightening disposition that something they believed in dint turn out to be a fact after all. We tend to stick to the more pleasant lie than the truth for all the energy and emotion spent on a belief. Our lives are shaped by what values and deeds we believe in because of every thought and action is a result of these. But how have these beliefs sprung up. They are a result of ideas and thoughts of our own or others. These ideas are those which show us the way for a better life and brighter future.
Believe
War
Revolutions brought progress; wars have brought in change, maybe good or for bad. If it weren’t for wars and for the rulers’ desire to conquer the world we wouldn’t have been such an intelligent and cosmopolitan race. The intermingling of races happened due to force, which brought in opportunities. The world was first, discovered completely and then shrank due to imperialism. Human race is now an amalgam of different races, faiths, cultures, traditions, fears and superstitions. Shouldn’t we thank the concept of war to provide us an excuse to foray into newer fields and investment into research? Right from their intelligent art of war of Sun Tzu, the discipline and the catapults of ancient warfare through the industrial revolution they generated to the modern luxuries of internet, GPS etc were result of wars and military.
Wars aren’t the bane of mankind. They have been critical for human achievement. I acknowledge that wars have a huge ugly face and several wars were totally unwarranted for and inhuman, but calling war itself inhuman is ridiculous. Wars and our accomplishments in them are something we should be proud of because it is something we give in our best. War has this beauty of life (though it feeds on it), rules laid but not necessary followed. Though unfair you have no excuse, no turning back; you have to take it as it comes, however it does. There is no compromise when we go to war. It is a single minded effort for which the common man of the nation is ready to take pains and bear the burden. He does so because he believes with all his heart in something. A nation against another, a community against it repressors, a cult against its rivals, a man against the society goes to war because of his faith in a supreme ideal worth fighting and dying for. This above all others is a human trait. War is a result of tremendous love of man for his faith and beliefs and more importantly his willingness to stand up for it.
Do u dare believe in something which means more than anything else to u?
Would u go to war defending them??
