Bitterness of war, breeds bitterness of war. Time and again this thought echoes in my mind, and it is rather hard to forget. Time and again it is riveted to my very soul and I cannot escape it. Just when I feel that I have shaken it, there it is, firmly attached.
When this nation was formed by the founding fathers and mothers, it was on the pretext of war, with the British Empire. What promulgated our Founders towards their self proclaimed sovereignty, was force being used by a greater power to diminish their humanity. Any human that is alive or lived can consider and understand this feeling.
Truly, if we are to survive in this place we call home we have to relinquish this bitterness, this possession of thought that is sure to wrought us pain and suffering for the rest of our time.
With the suicide of Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, the FBI's main suspect in the anthrax terror attack of late 2001, it should be apparent to all that it was this thought "The bitterness of war" that has brought us all much turmoil, much dismay.
How do we get past it, this thought of retribution, this seemingly bottomless pit of bitterness? Live well, hold our head up high and resolve to live "the good life", better than we were whence we started down this road of bitterness.
In my own personal life, like so many of you, I have been fed this bitterness since as long as I can remember. It has done nothing to help my situation, and in fact it has propagated itself in my heart, and stole happiness and joy from my life. I let this happen by not being able to forgive others or myself for the mistakes and transgressions. As of late though, with the world spinning at an ever increasing turmoil, I've come to recognize, and face the fact of my own bitterness. I created it, not someone else, it was I. Thus I shall diminish it and banish any and all bitter thought. Peace On