Thoughts

The World I want to Live In

IMG_2764%20copy.jpgI'm a real scrapbook person and I collect articles from magazines, newspapers, and any kind of printed matter. The clippings that I save are anything from essays, interviews, places I want to visit, food, art, films, music, literature, photography - basically things that I'm inspired by or which make me happy. The problem is I accumulate quite a lot and then just put them in a pile... At last I had time today to go through all the clippings that I had saved in the past few years and started filing them.

I was putting them into a file which was of photographs that were inspiring or beautiful and came across a newspaper photo/article which I didn't even remember saving. It nearly brought me to tears.

The headline "The Victory over Germany - 60th Anniversary Celebrations".

Japan was on Germany's side so I'm sure there were mixed feelings but in this photo we see the leaders of Germany, America, France, Japan and Russia - Putin himself. According to the article, this was held in Moscow, hosted by Russia and Putin made a speech saying "Today we celebrate the victory of peace and justice".

I was thinking of why I kept this photo. I love the expression on everyone's faces and how close they are standing next to each other. I think it gave me joy even back then (I'm guessing over 15 years ago?) to think that the leaders of our world are getting along and that those who are in charge and have the power to keep our world's peace are actually "happy" to be together.

What happened, President Putin????

This photo represents the world that I want to live in. It wasn't even a dream. It was a reality. What will it take for us to be able to all live together in harmony again?

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