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random post.
Sadako Sasaki was only 2 years old when the deadly ‘Little Boy’ struck 1km from where she lived. That was in 1945. 10 years later, as a result of radiation sickness, she developed cold and lumps on her neck and behind her ears that slowly moved towards her face. In January of 1955 purple spots started to form on her legs. She was diagnosed with leukemia and had at most a year to live. As she sat there in the hospital, losing all hope, she saw a gift of one thousand origami paper cranes that were donated to the hospital by well wishers. Inspired by that act, she began folding paper cranes and believed that if she can fold 1000 cranes, she would be granted a wish. Somehow she did not make it; she died after folding just 644 cranes. Her friends helped her complete the folding and buried them with her. What her wish would have been, nobody knew but her story made an impact on the world. Today she stands tall as an icon of children’s hope for peace and happiness.
Had she lived till today, she would have been happy to know that the world has somehow achieved peace and stability and that humankind are trying their best to uphold the promise of avoiding war at all costs. Powers to be, which clamored for world domination had long abandoned the quest, and common sense that peace is invaluable has taken a stronghold in humans. Many of us, me included, have never experienced war nor would we know how it feels to be attacked, starved or bombed, but we know the dangers of it well enough to silently hope that it will never happen to us or better still to pray that it will never happen again. When ‘Little Boy’ was dropped in Hiroshima followed by ‘Fat Man’ in Nagasaki, the consequences were deadly. The entire city was wiped out and human sufferings were unspeakable. Hundreds of thousands perished and the after effects caused pain to many. In fact so strong was the impact of the atomic bomb that it turned the entire 2 cities into a graveyard with not a tombstone standing.
"There is a path that birds follow
As they fly through the sky.
There is a path that fish follow
As they swim through the sea.
There is a path that stars follow
As they travel the heavens.
And there is path of principle
That human beings should follow
This is none other than the path of peace."
Daisaku Ikeda
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