Professor Wesley S. Ariarajah once narrated the story of his encounter with a student in the wake of the 2003 Iraqi war. Two days after the ‘shock and awe’ bombing the student ran to the office of the professor shivering, agitated and emotionally disheveled.
Ariarajah narrates his exchange with this student,
“What is troubling you?” I asked her gently, not wanting to pry into anything that she might not want to share.
“Is there something that I or the school can do to help?”
“No,” she said, now collecting herself,
“it’s the pictures of all that bombing. They keep me awake at night. I think of all the people on whom the bombs were falling.”
Today we watch violence like movies. It has become fashionable to post gory pictures on the social media and these are consumed with little or no restriction.
I wonder what the effect of the many piles of dead bodies on the streets of Nigeria would be on the minds and development of our young kids. Nobody has taken time to study the troubling psychological effect of the mass burials and mass graves in the Benue, Yobe, Adamawa, Sokoto, Borno, Zamfara, and elsewhere.
Are we getting used to death and blood?
Alongside One Another 
Children now play with shrapnel.
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Very regrettable!
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It is really troubling! Here in PNG violence is like a household word…and even overtly practiced. It’s side effect on children is vividly perturbing.
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You can already see what is at stake in the world today. I fear for the future generation is nothing is done, and done quickly. Thanks my brother for reading. Please keep sharing the message!
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I think about this all the time. Thanks a lot Fr Ikenna for this. I like it. Keep it up. Remain blessed.
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Thanks a lot Mazi for your comment. It is indeed a huge worry. We keep creating the awareness as our way of providing solutions rather sitting on the sidelines while pointing to others. God bless!
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Really disheartening…NIGERIA!
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Very sad. We all have become victims in one way or another. But we keep doing our little bits and pieces for a better society.
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Very Pathetic!
God help us All.
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Thanks so much Chisom for reading. Keep reading and sharing the stories.
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