A Merry World-An Utopian Ideal?

Today I completed reading “The diary of a young girl”. It’s a book I’ve been searching ever since I came to know about it. I visited many WebPages concerning Anne frank and once I came across a blog on her.
There it had been written of the innumerable and horrible struggles that Anne had to face, that at times she was on the verge of screaming and that at times she was in bouts of screaming.
It had been written about their betrayal, arrest, carrying them off on cattle trucks, seperation from parents and starvation,the long cruel and hard death.
The authoress describes all this in detail -their being arrested and led off,the only crime in their being Jews.
Turning back, the world sees how wrong it all was. The Nazis and their supporters were tried and given punishments. The world freezes at the mention of the Holocaust and silently prays “Never again”.
But just think, what was the order of the world then?
The world was divided. People were in a craze.
Germany a land of civilized people turned against some sections of their own people and commited such horrendous crimes?
How could the consciousness of thousands of people be swayed so easily, that very few ventured to think different?
People were in a craze;’ our prestige’,’ our economy’ and this craze could turn them blind against humaneness?
That urge is always resident in each of us- the urge of suspicion, mistrust, hatred and of destruction. This urge always accompanies humanity however civilized they may be.
The order of the world in those days was against the Jews. One can’t help wonder how mass feelings could be altered, but that owes itself to the very unstable nature of the human mind, its pettiness at times, but what seems negative now, seemed to be the most positive way to think once. Seldom do people follow their conscience they follow the opinion of the ‘powerful’, thinking that thus some of their power might rub on to their shoulders, but what actually rubs on to them is their own sense of insecurity, helplessness and vanity.
‘Our prestige’ ,’ Our economy’ such communalistic feelings first stems from ‘my prestige’, ‘my wealth’- from selfishness.
The view narrows down to whatever may do with ‘our prestige’ and ‘our economy’ and often we fail to include anything different from our own concept of ‘our’ness.
My brothers and my sisters, my family and my people, the group grows to all those whom with we shall share the same branch. But the little sparrow that perches on a twig doesn’t see the other branches and the more colourful sparrows there. It’s view is much narrower and hence it suffers.
We remember the holocaust today, but round the world thousands suffer just for being ‘different’. The principles of racism, apartheid, casteism didn’t serve a holocaust to be remembered as monuments.
Thousands of blacks have suffered for their colour. Jews had to go through a holocaust just because they were born as Jews, similarly the ‘blacks ‘had to suffer for being born ‘black’just because their skin was coloured! Being born into a lower caste shut down all the doors for an Indian a few decades back.
A wide world, a world wide enough to include all faiths, beliefs and ideals, a Merry World –is that just a faraway dream? An utopian ideal?
I have got one question to whom ever reading this :"why are you reading this...?..go try some other hihi"
There can’t just be happiness all around, but can’t we have such sorrows that will eventually bring happiness, that teaches us to smile –that which is happiness itself?
Only then would that craziness disappear, that narrowness in our view, that urge to kill, fire and destroy at the slightest spark. The Holocaust, Godhra…the cries of some resound on earth’s bosom.
Let us still hope -for the world is a wonderful place and man is an even wonderful.