Perspective

The world seems to have gone mad!

There are so many conflicts, in so many parts of the world (not to mention Ebola) that whatever one's political or religious affiliations, its heartbreaking to see the violence and loss of life. Especially those of children.

I read a blog yesterday of a SMC in the Midd.le East who was wondering how to explain to her 3-year old what the sirens mean where they live.  That is their reality and we need to be so thankful that we can sleep without worrying about sirens and bombs and our children can be normal and not see atrocities that they should never ever have to see.

It really puts things in perspective.

Since becoming a mother, I feel I have a different outlook on life and my view on the world has definitely shifted. Its like a lens whose axis has been changed. You can still see as you did before, but the perspective is new.

I have been wanting to write about this for a while and this seems like the appropriate post to do it.

I have always been a sympathetic person. Like any normal person I abhor violence and hate when it happens and innocents get injured or die. But since becoming a Mom these things just hit me MUCH harder.

Its like I can now really understand in an deep emotional way, what I previously could only in an intellectual way.  The best way I can describe is that while I felt anger and sadness before, now its just more raw.  And I guess its because its not just me looking at the world, its me as a  mother of a child and what I would do to protect that child and give her the loving, safe environment she deserves.

I was watching CNN today and saw a video about Ir.aq and they showed these displaced people fleeing from their homes. One shot was of a group of people standing by the road, and there was a small girl in purple pants and a purple tunic. She must have been about 2 years old....she was just standing there with some older children and  adults and who were talking, and seeing her I felt sad.

Sad......for her and even more for her parents because I knew that they (like any parent) would want to protect her and give her normalcy, but they are not be able to, given the circumstance they live in. 

Similarly, I am a sobbing mess when I see the commercial for UNI.CEF.  I could never watch them even earlier, but now as a mother, it is gut-wrenching to think what those other mothers are going through seeing their child cry from hunger and not be able to give them food.

It really makes one so very grateful about things we can provide our children that so many others in the world cannot. At the end of the day we just need to hug our children close and be thankful for what we have.

Such things makes our daily annoyances (like mine today - getting stuck in traffic) seem so very trivial!