Memento Mori
Oct. 19th, 2010 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaI actually thought I'd be writing this on the 4th of November, but I was informed that today is the Hebrew date of Yithak Rabin's assassination.
15 years.
I don't even know what to say.
I was 11. My sister was working in the Prime Minister's office at the time, if I recall correctly, maybe even both of them... I'm not sure.
Rabin was a very admired man in my house. I remember watching the funeral on television and my dad was crying.
It turned cynical very quickly. I'm less than enamoured with this cult of personality that has become of Rabin. It's hard for me to imagine what would have happened had he not been murdered, what my future-now-past would have been.
Would I have so little faith the governing bodies of my state, would I have cared at all?
I was 11, my political inclination was "why are we fighting?" if I even considered this thing called "political".
Because Rabin and the remembering of Rabin is a political narrative par excellence.
Never mind.
I thought I could write something applicable regarding remembering him and the legacy he is supposed to have left us.
But everyday, ever since he died, the notion of living up to his legacy of doing peace is spat on and it's debatable how much he himself lived up to the legacy he lived behind.
Remembering him every year makes us feel better about how low we've got.
For some reason, these lyrics come to mind and they really makes me feel 11:
I found it hard, it's hard to fined
Oh well, whatever, never mind
15 years.
I don't even know what to say.
I was 11. My sister was working in the Prime Minister's office at the time, if I recall correctly, maybe even both of them... I'm not sure.
Rabin was a very admired man in my house. I remember watching the funeral on television and my dad was crying.
It turned cynical very quickly. I'm less than enamoured with this cult of personality that has become of Rabin. It's hard for me to imagine what would have happened had he not been murdered, what my future-now-past would have been.
Would I have so little faith the governing bodies of my state, would I have cared at all?
I was 11, my political inclination was "why are we fighting?" if I even considered this thing called "political".
Because Rabin and the remembering of Rabin is a political narrative par excellence.
Never mind.
I thought I could write something applicable regarding remembering him and the legacy he is supposed to have left us.
But everyday, ever since he died, the notion of living up to his legacy of doing peace is spat on and it's debatable how much he himself lived up to the legacy he lived behind.
Remembering him every year makes us feel better about how low we've got.
For some reason, these lyrics come to mind and they really makes me feel 11:
I found it hard, it's hard to fined
Oh well, whatever, never mind
