I’m not opposed for a single moment to people participating in the #10yearschallenge and taking stock of how far they have come. I’ve also seen a lot of environmental ones highlighting the real impact of climate change which desperately needs our attention. This one, however, really strikes a chord with me. Can you imagine looking back and seeing your home, community and life destroyed by war? The streets you grew up on, people you saw everyday and future you imagined for yourself just gone in an instant? The point is, for the most part, we absolutely can’t. The majority of us haven’t the faintest idea of what that would be truly like. Even though we are the land of the peacekeepers in many respects and a neutral county, so many seemingly outrageously unexpected changes have happened and are happening in the history and politics of our world I wonder can we truly say that nothing like this would ever happen here? Even so, nothing takes away from the horror and destruction of people’s worlds right across the globe, whether they are places included in this image or not. For me, it’s about what this picture represents. Let’s take a moment for those who were forced to flee. For those who had to find new homes in unfamiliar places, had to leave loved ones behind while losing others and had to say goodbye to their livelihoods when they landed on new soil. For those, who are hoping and praying, that the conflict will all end soon and for those who are still waiting, for a new place to call their own.