Parents Who Do Not Heal A Violent World, Condemn Their Children To Fighting In One

"Parents Who Do Not Heal A Violent World,
Condemn Their Children To Fighting In One." - David Julio Wang

Whether that fighting be as a soldier in one of the empty conflicts in some troubled country,
spawned by old, unresolved pains and unexpressed angers and unmourned sadnesses.

Or as a bewildered citizen in our cold, capitalist, machine of a world.

If parents do not learn to cry,
to express their own bottled-up pains,
they condemn their children to living a life where those strangled pressures are always threatening to get out,
and when they do,
it is not as a gentle flowing like a stream,
but an explosion.