All you need is love

I was going to do a post on Ringo Starr’s birthday today, but we awoke to something horrific. When I turned on my laptop, there was an email from our friends, Emilia and Dom, who live very near a couple of the blasts. Emilia assured us that they were okay and that Dom had not gone to work. Since he works near Russell Square, this was a relief.

Then I tried to reach our friends Marian and Emlyn. They live in Wales, but I knew that Marian and her auntie were going be visiting London. The phones weren’t functioning for a while. By the time we touched base, I was more than little frantic. It turns out that they were planning on going next week. Emlyn’s determined to go now: no miserable git of a terrorist is going get him down.

Now, I don’t usually talk about this sort of stuff; but this calls for few thoughts. I know that there will always be people who will put their theology or ideology before humanity. Somehow, they convince themselves that they can kill in the vain hope that it will advance their cause. Of course it does no such thing. It might momentarily scare some folks, but I think that most people react as Emlyn did today: they aren’t going to destroy me, my beliefs or my liberty.
After the initial chaos, people find their humanity and reach out to one another. Then, we become something more, something better than we were before. The human spirit can soar above any obstacle that hate puts before it.

I don’t know what it takes to make a person become filled with so much hate, and I don’t want to know. The rest of us will go on, we will persevere and we will prevail as long as we don’t allow their hate to permeate our souls.

So my message to the bombers is this: sod off you hate-filled wankers!

As for you, faithful readers: remember, all you need is love.
Hey, Ringo, Happy Birthday! Keep it real.

A dopo e Moochas smoochas,

Please give what you can to Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders).

Comments

[Rédigé par : Lynn]

Amen to your comments. It
really bothers me when
people hide behind their
religion as an excuse to do
evil. One would think though, that once all these "people" blew
themselves up, that
there wouldn't be any terrorists left!

[Rédigé par : Emilia]

Dom decided to go into work today even though most of his office stayed home. They have an office right by where the bus was hit and they can't get into it so Dom and his team had to make a contingency plan for next week. I had a meeting in Soho and have to say my heart was thumping when I got on the tube. Everyone was reading Metro or the Eveneing Standard with horrific images across the pages and the personal stories beginning to emerge - people still looking for relatives. The train slowed at Kings Cross even though the doors didn't open and everyone was silent. You could feel that people were thinking about what happened and about the bodies that are still in that tunnel.

London is one of the few places in this country where we really do live happily, side by side with all races and faiths. Most of us, like me are immigrants or second generation immigrants. Its just so sad to see this happen in London but as Londoners we cannot give in. We must carry on and show that we won't be intimidated by these extremists.

Love and peace,

Emilia
xxxx