Living in Tianjin did not spare me from the horrors of war. My wife’s family were among the displaced. Millions of refugees escaped to safer areas before the army seized control of Nanking. I feel their pain deeply because I was born in the year when Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China and committed the Nanking massacre, which made Japan the enemy of the international community (Dedes, 2020).įor a period of six weeks the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army had a killing orgy, murdering over 300,000 people, with widespread rape and looting. More specifically, how can positive psychology help when ordinary people go about their daily business of going to school, enjoying family time, or doing the things they enjoy, but in a split second, find that their happiness and dreams gone up in smoke and reduced to ashes? As a War Baby, I Know How it Feels to Live Under Attack and Occupation by an Enemy The scenes of Russia’s deliberate bombings of hospitals and schools, and the relentless shelling of residential areas fill my heart with sadness and rage, because the United Nation and NATO cannot do anything to stop a madman from destroying cities and disrupting millions of innocent lives without any provocation (Deutsche Welle, 2022 Wille, 2020).Īre we still a civilized people governed by the rule of law? Have we regressed to barbaric savages in a jungle? Why can’t all the progress in psychology, education, and political science prevent ruthless dictators from murdering innocent people? The daily news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine brings back many painful memories. 11th Biennial International Meaning Conference 2021.Newsletter: Positive Living in Difficult Times.Existential Positive Psychology Bulletin.Research Institute on Flourishing and Suffering (RIFS).Existential Positive Psychology (PP 2.0).
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