Monk on fire..

So in history today we learned about this monk who wanted to grab attention from the outside world to tell people that his home wasn’t a home anymore. It was constanly in danger of war. So he sat in the middle of the street, dumped gas on himself, & caught himself on fire. You’d think he’d get up screaming, frailing his arms all over the place! But nope.. he sat in the middle of the street, still, & on fire. By the time people realized what was happening & tried to put him out, it was too late. He was already burnt to no return. The thing is though, I don’t think he wanted to be saved because that wasn’t the point he was trying to make. He wanted people to see that this war that was going on where he lived was terrible & needed to be stopped. I believe he said it was the cold war, all that stufff.

Anyway, the mind state the monk was in had to be freaking amazing considering he was on fire. For some reason this story really hit home to me. All for the monk, man. He took things into his own hands, & damn right he got peoples awareness & attention. Good job, & R.I.P. <3

miss-talia-rae:

Aw man.. that last post.. and the comments under it.. was from a few weeks before this time last year. and let me tell you, SO much has changed. we were so stupid and misled, now we all kind of know what we’re doing with ourselves, and making smart choices <3

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