Debate for Peace

As part of the Writers Matter program, teachers from about twenty schools around Israel wrote and shared their writing together. The following piece is part of the “I Wonder” collection, and comes from Monique, from Wizo Hadassim

I wonder about……

I wonder why I wonder? Sometimes it seems that there is no point in wondering at all. It is as if everything has already been decided, or has it?

I wonder if the hostages will ever be released, if they are even alive? 

I wonder if the soldiers will be ok? Will they all come home soon? 

I wonder if the innocent people suffering from this war will survive, will life ever be normal for them, or for us? 

I wonder why I need to question everything? I wonder why I don’t have all the answers?

I wonder why people feel so much aggression towards one another, for aren’t we all the same? Weren’t we all given the same rights at birth?

I wonder how the future of my children will look, or my students or even my own? 

I wonder if they will be happy and live lives full of love, happiness and satisfaction?

I wonder why I or anyone around me has doubts, regrets or shame?  

I wonder why I let others make decisions for me, in the government or my place of employment? Don’t I have free will? And if I do, why am I not using it?

I wonder why our creator made us suffer and celebrate, love and hate, think and feel? Or did they? 

I wonder if man has made all of their own problems and no higher being has any connection to it? 

I wonder about everything and nothing. Does anyone really know anything at all?

I wonder?