1000 Flowers for the Planet - #177 Honour the Future
Here in Australia (and in New Zealand)
we are celebrating Anzac Day. This is a very important date on the Aussie and
Kiwi calendars. It commemorates the day Australian and New Zealand troops
landed at Gallipoli in 1915 to fight the Turks in World War I. I’m not going to
write about that today though, because I will write about that next year when
it will be the 100th anniversary of the landing.
What I want to suggest with today’s
Flower is to honour the future by referring to the past. As we remember the
fallen from all wars past, let’s think about how these men and women, our
ancestors, our loved ones, people we never even knew, fought for their future. They fought to ensure that
we would never have to fight again. But we haven’t learned that lesson, despite
all the blood that was shed. Let’s learn how to get it right from here on: to
learn to live together; to learn to respect each other; to learn to respect the
planet; to learn how to help each other; to learn that people are more
important than money; to cherish the beauty of this world. Let’s honour the
future by learning from our past and putting our shoulders to the wheel to get
it right.
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