MAYBE

As I’m walking around the WWII memorial in this sunny and bright day I can feel darkness. The years of the war are soaked up in it. Death and tragedy surround them and even though the war is long over you can still sense their presence.

Looking at “Wall of Freedom” makes me wonder – what price did the world have to pay for it? Why did we have to fight and kill each other for years just so that we could finally appreciate the peace and freedom we had had in the first place?
A ton of questions start whirling in my head without me being able to give them a reasonable answer. The second one keeps repeating and I start searching for an explanation. Maybe it is because people always want more than they have or because they always want to show that they are better than the others in certain ways. Or maybe it was all because the different sides in the war were too prideful to stop fighting. Maybe we will never have an exact answer.

Too many maybes.

But then I see this inscription by General Douglas MacAdams and I start to feel hope. Suddenly the future seems a little brighter. Maybe we will learn from the past and the mistake(s) of those before us and we will not repeat them. Maybe we will manage to preserve the peace our ancestors gave their lives for. And maybe we will finally start living in a world where problems are not solved by measuring armies’ strength but people’s intelligence.
Hopefully we will. Or maybe we have already started?
It is still just a maybe.