Contextual Reflections: Missing Persons

Public Debates / Media
Though past, from any time, world wars and other, it was present in our homes, television, education and work, to monuments and various celebrations, it never got its face to face duel. In fact the avoidance of dealing with the real issue, as a matter of fact, created a shadow of the past which has haunted us, and maybe still does, wanting its due consideration, wanting its respect as it was, for no past whatsoever can have only a negative character. As a matter of fact it is there, following us in our every step into our future for the very one reason of giving us the lesson we always missed, or neglected.

Past seen as an exploded bomb is nothing but what we have gone through. Remaking it and dismantling it for the reason of learning, or rather hearing what it has to say to us, through our own voices, in debates, documentaries and other media undertakings, for the purpose of reaching ourselves out from those holes and expressing it, the past, in a way that will not haunt nor hurt, and neither cripple our future, would only do us a favor of avoiding its darkest recurrence, as it has happened in the past.

A war, a conflict, a difficult past is not over until it has been faced and, why not, tamed, for our own collective, and not less importantly, individual commitment to the freedom and future we ought to pave for ourselves.

Public consideration of the shadow of our past, waiting to teach us the lesson, which we have always avoided, is not less important than the debate about future. It is more a look of our own selves into the mirror of what we are. It is our own reflection not only at the times of degradation, but equally important, a look into the strength of our own selves, we ought to have had something in ourselves to overcome that darkest shadow of human invention. And it is here where our future path invents itself.

B.H.