I feel overwhelmed with different emotions - with the feeling of joy, of happiness, of peace and at the same time of the pain, the agony, the distress and the emptiness.
This morning I was watching YouTube clippings of U.S. soldiers returning home to "surprise" their loved ones. Brothers reuniting with their sisters, sons reuniting with their mothers, daughters with fathers, fathers with their children, husbands with their wives, boyfriends with their girlfriends, people with their affectionate pets... My eyes welled up with tears of joy with every video clip that I watched. The feelings of shock, the shrieks of disblief, the tears of joy, the hugs of love, the longing kisses, the smiles... of seeing their loved ones come home, by the families of the 'deployed' have filled my heart and eyes with emotions. From the very young to the very old, the reactions are just the same. Scratch the surface and try to look a little deeper into their hearts and one would realize the heavy psychological burdens the families of the 'deployed' carry with them each day. When they bid adieu to their loved ones going thousands of miles away from home in the service of their motherland, to keep everyone back home safe, one thing that they all know is that that moment might be the last one to see their beloved ones alive. Each single day, every single moment they miss them in their lives. A life of uncertain hope. "There's so much love lost... so much sacrifice made... so much pain being endured in this world" is what I thought to myself. At the same time, I also thought of the less fortunate (or the unfortunate) who received their loved ones - but only in caskets - the Fallen Heros. To them, life seems so meaningless. A vaccuum which cannot be filled. The pain which no one else can fathom. A life long agony. One ended life is the beginning of another shattered. In the fight between the 'Good' and the 'Evil', so many innoncent lives suffer.
While natural disasters and calamities seem unavoidable, is there any way man-made suffering can be eradicated in this world? "God, can there ever be eternal peace and happiness and harmony in this world ?" I said to myself. Mulling over those scenes, I seem to discover newer dimensions and depths of the word 'LOVE'. A feeling which can only be 'felt' in its truest sense but which can never be adequately described through words or expressed by actions. Most people who do not face these hardships hardly realize the value of relationships. To most of us, many aspects of life are just taken for granted.
Here is a link to some of the clips that I mentioned above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7W8Nfs5EtM&feature=related
(... to be continued)
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Excellent blog and myself being a Veteran, on behalf of all my fellow Veterans, thank you for recognizing the men and women who have proudly served our country with honor.
ReplyDeleteThank you Don. While the sacrifices made by the deployed are beyond any praise or compare, when I wrote this blog my thoughts were focused on their families who miss them so much in their lives. They carry on with their daily lives despite the pain of separation that haunts them every single moment. Their only ray of hope is that some day soon, they would get to see their dear ones back home, hug them, play with them and speak to them whenever they want, like most others do. God Bless Them All.
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