It has been a while since I penned anything and now my fingers are itching to type. So here it is.
I am not an economist, nor am I someone with a degree in corporate finance or investment banking. However, the feeling I have deep down in my gut is that this 'financial disaster' has just started rolling. The scrambling to save the financial institutions and to revive/boost the economy are not going to do much. All this 'patchwork' cannot hold the fabric together for long.
As much as I shudder to think about what is yet to strike us down, I think this disaster was bound to happen sooner or later and in a strange way, it is good. It is high time all the nations of the world realized that no single entity(nation, corporate, community, individual) can enjoy the benefits while his neighbour is dwindling away. It is high time all the nations came together to one table and discussed trade policies, economic policies and foreign policies. All these policies would have to have a common denominator-the good of all the parties that are directly involved and those that are not involved.
Entities that are labeled as 'extremist' or 'terrorist' would also have to be included. Everyone needs to realize that violence is not a solution to anything. The countries that called themselves victims would have to forgive those that faltered. The countries that have too much weaponry would have to realize that terror cannot be crushed. 'Terror' rose from within the same kind of human that they too are. Why did these people become so antagonistic in nature? Why are they killing people by giving up their own lives? Everyone seems to want to eliminate these elements without understanding the cause of all this chaos. Countries with heavy weaponry would have to give up intruding into other countries in trying to locate and destroy such extremist elements. I might be foolish but I believe that these extremist elements need 'love' and not 'bullets' and I am ready to give up my life for my belief. Aren't Love and God the same? Isn't love-for-all what the many sages in India preached and practised? Isn't that what Sri Adi Shankaracharya, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Jnana Dev, Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus preached? Isn't that what people like Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa practised their whole lives? We have enough hatred and greed in this world to destroy us many times over. What we need is love; a simple policy and that is to 'live and let live.'
So, I hope this re-cession is going to teach us all to not just live for ourselves but to live for every one of us. This is also a good time for those so-called heads of nations who wage wars to stop violence and I hope that all those that spread violence will stop taking revenge by killing innocent people. Hopefully, at the end of this recession, we all come out as better human beings.
