Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall... and in Europe, the date would be day/month/year... so... 9 Nov = 9/11. Interesting isn't it! Listening to the CBC today, they had a clip from Peter Mansbridge way back then, and he said that in the future, people would look back on this day as the end of the Cold War. Interesting that one 9/11 marked the end of the Cold War and another 9/11 (month/day) marked the beginning of the War against Terror. How far we have come...
Today, the mentioned the walls that still exist... North/South Korea, Mexico and the southern US border, India/Kashmir/Pakistan, Israel/Palestine. It seems that as one wall comes down, more go up. And not just physical walls either. There are walls that separate cultures, peoples, races, creeds, religions, denominations, orientations. Wherever we are pointing to "them" and "us", there is a wall. Perhaps not a physical wall, but definitely a wall. A wall of prejudice, of hatred, of differences, of fear. What would our world look like if we let go of the prejudice, hatred, fear... and embraced the similarities? Perhaps more walls would come down... in nations, in neighbourhoods, in hearts and minds.
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