grandma's wanderlust: The depresing side of walls.

The Berlin Wall

I love my life!!!

I am living the way I want to live, doing what I want to do, the way I want to do it.

I have a lot of fun in my life. However, sometimes I visit some sites that depress me for days at a time.

I am glad to say that there were not so many terrible sites on my 8 years of travel. Nevertheless, there were a few.

The worst one was when I visited a concentration camp and the Berlin Wall in Germany.

I was very depress for a few days following the visits. It was as if a heavy dark blanket had fallen on me and I could not get out from underneath.

Another very depressing site was seeing the West Bank Wall, Palestine. It is so big, so imposing, so cruel…

I cannot comprehend why people do these atrocities, just because… I don’t understand because why??

And couple weeks ago the S21 and the Killing Fields in Saigon, Cambodia. Where over two million of “undesirable” citizens where torture and killed. That represents 25% of the population.

I have met some wonderful people. Many different nationalities, religion, and races. People with different traditions and customs. I have been invited into their homes to share a meal or festivities. And it has been great.

And that is all I am saying.

I hope that during my travels I won’t see any more depressing sites or walls.

But what I am really hoping it’s for people to learn from history and realize that these atrocities don’t solve anything.

We are supposed to go forward, toward a brighter future. Not toward the same mistakes and atrocities of the past.