Recent blasts & terrorist attacks shook the lives of millions of people around the world. Some were connected to who died, some were present at the locations, some had a narrow escape, some were to be at those destinations but somehow were not present, some were in the neighborhood, some were hooked to the TV to know whats happening.
Some recall their times of past when they have been a part of something similar. Some way or the other everyone was impacted. Psychologically everyone who was impacted was reacting in someway or the other.
I was reacting too....
I felt this surprise, this shock, then I felt questioning God, then I felt sad for people who died and who went thru this trauma, then I felt weird thinking what goes on in the minds of a terrorist. I am no psychologist so I really cannot do much justice to the psychoanalysis, but there are times when someone like me who cannot even see a deadbody goes thru this rage, this fury over some strong incident that impacted my life. Irrespective of the consequences, we get into this auto pilot action mode and channelise all of our energy to one single objective.
Execute our WILL!!!!
It is one of the most dreadful feelings to ever occur to me. But those were the times I realise that there is a terrorist in all of us. We all go thru this feeling of strong hatred, fury, vengeance, want to do some damage to people responsible for whatever has impacted our lives. However, sanity prevails and we understand we should ideally be angry on people who are responsible for it and not other innocent people.
So then what goes thru the minds of these terrorists which make them cross the lines of punishing the responsible and punishing the innocent? What goes thru the minds of a young guy who shoots a mother who has a baby in her hands and when the baby drops down, without a sweat he kills the baby as well. A baby who is incapable of anything is shot in cold blood.
It is extremely interesting to think that if the same amount of focus and willingness to execute your mission, to the extent that someone is willing to die for it, if used in the right channel, what kind of results can we expect? How would the world be if all those are made to think about the potential that everyone of us possess to plan to the minutest detail, execute and be successful in whatever you wish. Somehow I dont understand it is very easy to fall into this thought process when people have to violate some social norms, some rules. So what makes it so exciting in violating those norms for someone to be able to use full potential whereas the same is not used for rightful purposes?
Does it mean that even after thousands of years, we are still animals as we only care about "feel good factor" and dont care about others?
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