The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Monday 21 September 2015

REFUGEE CRISIS: EUROPE, AND ITS PEOPLE, NEED TO GIVE THEM THAT 'LIFE'..

Trains and the Holocaust were inseparable – and the images will haunt humanity forever. 

Hitler's Germany killed scores by stuffing them like cattle in trains and on roads in harsh weather conditions.

Trains were the final component of Nazi Party's 'final solution' to 'free humankind of 'Jews and other unwanted races' - as Hitler and his collaborators saw them.

Trains - that make a significant part of every Holocaust narrative - of books, of memoirs, of autobiographies, of documentaries, of movies - the Holocaust trains.

For millions who lost their lives and for millions who somehow survived - trains were the last nail in their coffin - beginning a ride to hell - ending in concentration camps.

Yes, it is nothing like that today.

The ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, the second biggest mass migration since the World War II (or since the days of the 'final solution') to the world's wealthiest continent (and in the wealthiest continent) is not even remotely indicative of the inhuman ways of the Holocaust.

Except the images showing migrants being loaded into trains to stop them from entering a European nation (or European nations) - with rough treatments by Hungary, Croatia, Serbia and Croatia! 

And now, the 'welcoming' Germany too, has started showing regressive signs with closing its border and demanding 'fair distribution' of refugees'.

Yes, we can say the incidents were and are an aberration and the European leaders will find some solution - either in their meeting tomorrow - if they can build consensus - or in a follow-up meeting based on the outcome of the meeting tomorrow.

Yes, the images are not suggestive of those frightening years seven decades back, but they reveal, once again, a primeval mindset every human being has - that we are so easily swayed to the extent that we start disregarding the other human life as if it is non-existent.

Had it not been so, we would never have something called the Holocaust or other reasons behind assassinations and massacres.

The primeval mindset - that so easily makes us to act selfishly to the extent that we start thinking that those who are running from certain death - would start sharing some of the space shared by us - even if it doesn't affect us in real terms - something that is happening in many countries of Europe.

Europe's wealth can easily take care of some one million migrants including refugee from the worst humanitarian crisis hotbeds like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Yes, the countries need to sit and resolve nagging and divisive issues - and they must do it soon - possibly in the meeting tomorrow.

The world has already seen many bad images from a Europe that is peaceful for decades and has tried to send a message of harmony to the world by creating a unified documentation free travel zone of over 25 countries.

People, in search of life, are looking to a peaceful and financially well to do Europe to seek a passage to be able to remain alive - something that is 'basic' to every human civilization - and fundamental for us to remain humans.

And Europe, and its people - need to give them that 'life'.

And yes, it is not just the responsibility of Europe. We all, in every part of the globe, must extend helping hands. 

We all need to be ‘fair’ in distributing our responsibilities. 

Keeping in mind the reality that we cannot do anything about partisan, irrational and selfish ways of geopolitics on international issues! 

©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/