In yet another half-hearted attempt to keep this blog alive, here I am posting again. That said, before I started typing this I was reading the article "Terror in India" in the latest The Economist issue. It's queer that no matter how many reports initially read on the newspapers, it only hit me hard when news leaked on how a Singaporean hostage was killed in the shootings. Personally, the tragedies of the situation got to me on a few grounds. Not just because she's a Singaporean, not just because of the connection through the inklings of patriotism in my heart or the thoughts about her suffering, but also the realities of terrorism in our world.

Somehow it's inadvertently a case by human nature to take things for granted (most of the time, anyway). Maybe simply because being thankful for every single thing in your life takes a pretty strenuous amount of consciousness (and conscience) which is eventually sorted under the lesser priority amongst the pressures of the other matters of life. But while we sit on our laurels and marvel at the exceptional level of peace and security in our country, there's no better time than now to clear the mist off our glass rims and analyze the situations. To understand how sometimes, things may not always work along the lines of rationality as we know them to function. Sometimes the unexpected happens. Sometimes innocent lives are lost with barely any justification. Sometimes things go wrong, just because.

It's not that we don't understand that things screw up for no reason, but the ironies of the situations in terrorism and our failure to understand lies in our reasoning. As we are conditioned to memorize the cause and effect maps of individual case studies, comply to the principles and rules of human nature, and to understand the rationales of law, the blatant ignorance of all these theories leave our mouths agape, as we search in the abyss of logic for a hint of an answer. Any answer at all, in fact, to quell the uncertainty through the unfamiliar thought processes behind these attacks. And yet again we end up frustrated with nothing in hand; no explanation, no assurance, no answers.

Don't get me wrong in thinking we should start living by the day under a shell of fear of 'what ifs', but I think it's time for us to stop looking for answers that can't be found and start noticing the statements emboldened by such events. More precisely, the statements marking our essential values always overlooked because we have always presumed them to be there. Because as much as we all wish for the ability to foresee the nitty-gritties in our lives, we are still left unknowing. The only thing we know is what we have, right here, right now. While the lack of knowledge leads majority to the effects of uncaring, the choice of making an effort to care. The effort to care, or the careless effort in return; it's really yours to make; don't settle for the lesser choice.

No, no, no, don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise, and put up a parkin' lot

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