Promises And Recognition

Promises And Recognition

Happy Monday! Here in the States it is Martin Luther King Jr. day. A day created to honor the good reverend and his dutiful work for the forwarding of Civil Rights before his assassination.

If you don’t live in the states it’s “just” Monday the 15th of January, however their is a good chance your country has a day or a moment like Martin Luther King Jr. Day. As we, as societies, look back on the actions of the past we are better able to see where our own nations have gone wrong and harmed those it should have protected or destroyed those who were no threat to them.

So politicians, leaders, political activists the world over have pushed for the recognition of these events. Recognition, however, is only part of it.

The other half is the promise.

We commemorate these days to promise that we, as a people,, do not make these mistakes again in the future. We honor the martyrs by striving for a world that would not perform the same atrocities as the one of the past.

It is unfortunate that too few people recognize this second part. They see the sins of the past as someone else’s folly, not something they should be concerned with and certainly not something they should be acting upon.

But if not we, then who?

The responsibility of making the world a better place is our responsibility, the responsibility of remembering the sins of the past is our responsibility, the responsibility of making amends for those wrongs is our responsibility.

We are the living promise of a better world, but only if we choose to be.

So I hope, so that the people of the future will not suffer like those of the past you will accept this responsibility and be the promise of a better world.

Thank you and God bless;

~S. Wallace