The Last Home

Posted by Persian King (Tehran, Iran) on 10 September 2007 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.

Dallas, TX

This is the last destination, the final home for every one of us in this mortal world. This is the place that billions rest and time will come that we all be there under those stones.

The greed that plaque the mankind, the thirst for power, the desire for material wealth and struggle for longer stay in this "motel" of life; will all be put to rest when the final moment arrives.

Why humanity can't live in peace with itself? Why humanity is so destructive in his quest for glory? Maybe we are a forsaken race, a forgotten mistake!

A trip to the cemetery bring any person to his senses, even if for a short time, to realize this is what we all get after those very few years of struggle on the surface.

Our lives are short especially when put in the context to the age of our planet or universe. We are so insignificant that our existence in this vast universe of darkness is not even known.

Everyday you wake up and you see horrific news of terrorism, murder, rape, massacre, genocide. You go to school and you are thought subliminally to distinguish your color of skin from those of your classmate, you are told how to behave in relation to that. You are told that Asians are yellow, Africans are black, Europeans and Americans are white, Middle Easters are brown and Latinos are red. We divide ourselves with religions to make us ever more different, then we fight over ideology to the end.

We echo world of freedom, but we enslave billions. We talk about democracy, but we support corporate friendly dictators. We talk about our common humanity, but we are busy making nuclear bombs to bring about the demise of our enemy. We establish humanitarian organizations to help people recover from wars, but then we are researching hard to make bombs and guns kill more and be more effective.

If everyday we start by taking a trip to a cemetery and see those that once stood strong on this Earth now sleeping powerless under feet of soil we might be kinder to each other. We might know our common humanity the final destination and the need to live these few day that we are given in peace and harmony with ourselves and with this universe.

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