Everyday Canvas

August 5 and 6

Prompt: What kinds of things or events give a person a broken, shattered heart?

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Most people fall to pieces when they lose someone or a love affair, marriage, or a relationship goes sour and dies.

As for me, what happened at 9/11 broke my heart more than the tragic ending of the relationship of my parents and the way it affected their lives to the ends of their lives.

Plus, I feel shattered each time someone gets hold of a gun or something similar and commits mass murder, especially when that happens to innocent children in schools. Then I feel even more terrible when the newscasters bend the events to their biases to blame the wrong person or persons.

When friends and people close to me die or fall in dire straits such as fatal illnesses and such unfortunate events, I feel broken, too.

I also feel bad when I hurt someone, unknowingly or out of necessity, even when they are the one who caused it.

It is a rough world, isn’t it!

Prompt: According to you, what’s something that everyone, absolutely everyone, in the entire world can agree on?

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After the basic needs (food, shelter, clothing, medical care) are taken care of, I think everyone wants a sense of belonging. That search for belonging makes people attach themselves to people or groups, even though sometimes those groups are against their best interests.

Then, I am quite sure, we all want World Peace. We don’t like chaos, political, international, social, or personal, even if we cause all that and may not be aware of our own doings.

Then comes learning, maybe. It may not be the kind they teach in schools but the kind people chase after themselves. It may even be something frivolous as what a neighbor is up to, but it is still learning, isn’t it!