I'm not familiar with Paris, it's not somewhere I've been to on holiday, tho I would be able to locate it on an unmarked map, unlike Beirut which I'm sad to say I wouldn't. I understand that lots of my facebook friends from the UK will feel more of an affinity with France as one of our closest neighbours, than with countries further afield experiencing terrorism this week. And yet I also feel a bit uneasy somehow with the way some loss of life seems less unexpected. So I understand that the day before the horrors in Paris, 43 people were killed and 239 injured in suicide bombings in Beirut. Every single one of these lives matter. Including those of the people who committed the killings. And yet there has been comparatively little reported about that news story here it would seem.
I'm in a minority amongst my FB friends in that I have not added a French flag over my profile pic. I think showing solidarity is a brilliant thing to do. I guess I'm trying to figure my own way of wanting to show solidarity with a grieving world rather than nation. Perhaps we need to design a flag for the whole of planet earth? This afternoon I will draw something I can at least change my profile pic to, even if its not going to be a contender for a global flag :-)
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