It was my
first day at school. I felt nervous and scared. I went to all my classes with
no friends. It felt like no one cared.
I listened
anxiously to all the lessons and waited for lunch break at one. Then finally
the bell rang. It was time to talk and have fun.
In the lunch
line I met a new friend who wore a hijab on her head, and though I am Jewish,
we got along fine, and I was so relieved when she said, “Sit with us, at our
table.” She pointed to the one next to the door.
So I agreed, and
took my tray and was about to walk with her across the floor, when suddenly I
felt a nudge. “Hey, I saw you on the bus,” said a tall girl in a long skirt. “I
see your Jewish star necklace. You should sit with us.”
At that moment I
looked around, and that’s when I noticed, to my surprise, the nations of the
world, isolating themselves. That’s what I saw through my own eyes.
The Spanish only
sat with Spanish, the Russians always with the Russians, and never the Arabs
with the Jews. I saw the reason why war gets started. Everyone sticks to their
own kind. The lunchroom was a map of the world. Why was everyone so blind?
And so I turned
down this girl, and went with the first, and there was no enmity. I built a
bridge between two worlds when I sat with those different from me. Hope you
will do the same.
Source: http://academictips.org/blogs/why-is-there-war/
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