Thursday, May 20, 2010

Football Vs Terrorism....Ball vs the Gun....


Uniting and Dividing the World





                As the football world cup nears, the pages of the newspaper present two contrasting moods. The sports pages reflect a mood of celebration while the news on terrorism around the world present a grim picture.


In these times of  blood and gore, sports act as a perfect mean to take our minds off and immerse ourselves into something more "passionate",in the proper sense of the term.


RELIGION 
Football  is a religion. Players play for their teams irrespective of what background they come from. As for the Gods, just wait to see them in action in South Africa soon.Terrorism , on the other hand, is wrongly driven by religion. Terrorists definitely do not have any religion because no religion would preach people to take guns in their hands and shoot people around.If you want to shoot, try shooting the ball into the goal.


CASUALTIES
Yes, David Beckham and Michael Ballack are definitely 'casualties' as they have been knocked out of the World Cup due to their injuries, and they would surely be missed.But then, they would be back to playing the game in the near future hopefully. This is nothing as compared to the daily casualties of terrorism, which are much more gruesome and somewhat intentional by these groups of misdirected people. It is something unpardonable and something which could have been avoided.


PASSION ...AND THE FIGHT
The real fight should be there on the field. Not the Battlefield, but the sporting field. Yes, there are headbutts and tackles in football as well. That's passion for you, because they play to win , wearing their hearts on their sleeves. Killing innocents is an act of cowardice . Culminating lives won't let these so-called servants of 'whatever'  redeem themselves  and get glorified in the eyes of the world.


 So here's hoping that the coming month and the future at large would let us forget the bloodshed and ease the pain all over the world. Rejoice in the beautiful game . Rejoice in life.

4 comments:

  1. Its a real good one dude...keep up the good work..!!!!

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  2. this is some of d finest writing i have seen..............\\\

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  3. Interesting comparison.....

    But in Football there is always a side to choose from... among 2..

    But are there any sides people take in terrorism .. ?

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  4. @debajyoti...absolutely....thats the point....even football divides us but it unites the world at large.....

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