Today a piece of news brought me to writing this piece, and it said "A year after whole neighborhoods full of people were killed by the Japanese tsunami, rumors of ghosts swirl in Ishinomaki as the city struggles to come to terms with the awful tragedy"
Yes a whole town flooded with ghosts, ghosts of those who died in that one instant... in that one flash. The reasons complex, intricate yet interesting build up many theories. Some say it is part of the healing process as society comes to grips with this great tragedy. Others link it to the great sense of loss and some say it is due to the sudden and intense nature of the grief suffered by the residents. They fear going to parts of town that were wiped out completely.
Yet i ask myself, i was not there then why do i grapple with ghosts and fears of my past everyday of my life. These ghosts that roam corners of our heart, haunt our soul where do they come from. No tsunami hit the shores of my soul and wiped out the residents, it was but the normal waves that lash the shores everyday!
Today those grieved citizens, me and may be some of you also see those ghosts but isn't that because all of us are but in search of that true inner peace. Humanity today strives in a tiring en devour to latch on to some semblance of inner peace. Today don't we search for some semblance of belief with which we can cling. For ages we have credited our success to our hard work, yet never for a moment we realize that whenever a power has become too strong, a counter balance either by luck or some calamity has always existed. Whether we believe it or not there is a power far greater and stronger than us.
Yet that semblance of peace will not arrive by virtue of messiahs, it will only arrive when humanity again starts to be humane. When humans are not commodities, numbers or statistics, only then will our souls darkest corners shine, only then will the haunting ghosts peacefully pass on to the other side. We have ceased to be humans, our true cause and soul lost in lust, greed and relations based on need. We have willfully ignored the quality, that was being a human and treating a fellow being as one and have lost our inner peace. Ghosts haunt us, pain drives us to insanity, fears roam free every moment. In the debris of our soul and crumbled abodes of our hearts ghosts roam and we fear to go there. Yet our only solace is to reach deep within a grasp the last shreds of humanity left in us and then sow a new crop, build a new abode. Only then will the souls gain an easy transition to the other side where they will shine like angels, smiling down upon us from the heavens above.
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