Be a human, choose for a world with humanity
If I am not mistaken we are 2017, but more than ever humanity seems to be missing. I suppose all of you saw the images off the use of chemical weapons in Syria. People losing their whole family, people losing control over their own body, people suffering to breath, convulsions and no proper medication nor equipment to provide the necessary care. It is a setting hard to believe, maybe impossible to truly imagine, but it is the reality. It is a tough reality that such things still take place, but with what reason? Every religion and every human being values the gift of life. It is a gift that should be treated with respect and certainly not stolen from men, women and children in such a brutal and unhuman way. Or is it the human way and should we lose confidence in humanity?
I don’t believe such a thing! I cannot believe such a thing as this would mean all human dreams and hopes are no longer worth a penny. This would mean the future of the world is not worth fighting for and this is simply not a reality we should be facing! I promise you, each dream, each hope and each glimpse of a better future for all is certainly worth it.
Life is uncertain, for everybody. People enter your life, people leave your life, people pass through your life and some people stay. You cannot control who will enter or who will leave. You cannot control how much pain it may cause, which memories it may awake or how it may alter your path. There are so many things beyond control, so many influences. Everybody meets good and bad, happiness and pain, laughter and tears, but this does not withdraw them from humanity. Exactly these feelings are what make them human. These experiences, this compassion, this understanding, this hope, this laughter. But how can we call ourselves human if we ignore the suffering of others? How can we call ourselves human if we hide and close our eyes for what is happening?
It hurts me. The reluctance to admit we are all part of the system, all part of the problem. It is so easy to say there is nothing you can do. Of course I am not completely innocent. I think nearly nobody is. We all have money stored at banks supporting the production of weapons, we all at times throw away a little bit of food, we all sometimes drink sodas from companies draining away water and destroying the strong needed forests, we all buy clothes produced under circumstances we would not wish to our worst enemy and we all say, what else should I do? It is difficult, I admit. What is the right thing to do? There is so much information and what should you believe? Those stories which are nearly impossible to believe? Those documentaries that give you goosebumps and make you cry inside? Just think about these things in life, make people aware of what is happening. Alone nobody can change the world. Nobody ever has. But we aren’t alone. We are humans. We are beings able to care about each other, able to create awareness and able to love. As Albert Einstein once said: “the world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything”. So I beg you, open your eyes, don’t be afraid of change, don’t fear the future, but be a human and choose for a world with humanity.
We live in a world worth fighting for
