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Shades of Pain
rethinking what we cannot avoid
Avoiding pain is what we all instinctively do. But then, these days, it is everywhere: you read it, hear it, watch it and feel it.
While there is do doubt that humanity has made some great and incredible strides, all the way to Mars, it seems we never ever get out of the long shadow of pain, and the darkness it communicates.
Afghanistan. Few of us may understand the geo-politics (even though we love to talk like we do, especially assigning blame), but all of us can get the sense of horror as images reveal grown men reduced to desperate getaways.
The instability of tribes, counties and nations play across the world in a thousand places each day, we only know the ones the news outlets in our areas pick up, or the ones that, like Afghanistan, has been a long playbook of terror.
The losses and the humanitarian crises arising from political manueuvering and brinkmanship are permanent ones. Some may have returned to rebuild, but nothing is ever the same again.
I think to events in my life that may have completely changed the trajectory of my life and nothing comes close to what millions experience in our world as their reality. Last month, I listened to a few refugees share their stories. It struck me how much they were like me, when I was a…