Friday 22 August 2008

news and bravery

i read the papers on a daily basis, trying to read from different sources to get the most accurate picture possible of events (regardless of journalistic objectivity, none of us can be objective, really)
i have come to accept that it is one of the most depressing activities to undertake, for in this day and time, one would think that apart from sports (now it's the olympics and fair enough, but the rest of the year is the same), entertainment (whose that blond girl who's done nothing in her life apart from being born in a ridiculously rich family, yet daily in the so called news?) or conflict (a bomb here kills 50 people, a so called terrorist attach kills 23 in this other place) and like that pretty much everyday
then, there are news that touch you closer, like for spaniards the very recent madrid plane crash

the one that did lately to me, was hearing three women working for the IRC got killed in an ambush in Afghanistan, for one of the people i met in somaliland met precisely that profile. She is alive and dealing with the assasination of her colleagues, and so, in her and her colleagues honour, this entry is for them
my positive energy to you

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