People!
By TaliciaDragonsong 14 Comments
People!
They're so strange and silly.
Cooped up in their own little worlds, too busy with their own ideals and visions of their personal paradise clouding their everyday judgement!
Our needs are to consume, to buy, to own and to be recognized by others for it (consuming their respect).
So many bad things happen around us while we stand on the sidelines and comment on a news story, instead of actually actively solving the problem.
Day after day we are bombarded with news only meant to shock us!
Discussion value? None! It's all "Did you hear about that?" or "Isn't this scandelous?" no matter what the subject.
Beatings, rapings or basic theft, every crime is happening around us for all the wrong reasons and if its not actively hurting us, we are inclined to do next to nothing about it.
The fact that religion and age old rules somehow seem to triumph over common sense is disgusting and a crime against humankind!
No book, no rule and no belief can condone the misery inflicted in all of these cases.
A brutal beating just because you're from Iran?
Raped because the man decided you were asking for it?
Corporate world draining you for all you got just because they can?
The poor familyman being robbed on his way to home in a dark alley because they cut back on police (and street lighting!) funds?
These are all problems happening around us, problems we like to view but from a safe distance.
We stand by as bus drivers get beaten up and as a result skip certain stops.
The result? The driver got fined for skipping stops.
They couldn't put some muscle on the bus or otherwise reinforce security, no they couldn't.
The driver had to do his rounds and get beaten up day after day.
This happened behind my previous school, this happened next to a kindergarten.
These things just happen everywhere and the bottom line is always money when it comes to resolving them.
We can't send a unit over just because someone's fiddling with the lock of your frontdoor ma'm, it could be a cat.
"But I just looked out of the window and I can clearly see its a person trying to get in."
No ma'm, we can't do anything, call us when something illegal happens.
Which is always too late.
Preventing is better than curing!
I won't say I lost faith in humanity, because I haven't even by a long shot, but I'm just hurt over the distance created by our own species.
We label, we ignore and we only look after ourselves.
A logical goal, I know I'm very much concerned about myself when needed, but we need not forget that we are a social species.
We have a system and a social structure that is (if barely) functioning.
Smile, for a change, and take a chance.
The world won't smile back and you won't find eternal happiness all of a sudden, but perhaps you may just make someone else's day a whole lot better.
What prompted me to write this (and let my coffee get cold)?
I happened upon a man today who went out of his way to help me with a simple thing.
To him and others it might have seen like nothing special, it saved my day and meant the world to me.
Believe in yourself people, and believe in doing good.
But don't donate to all those charities while you're at it though, that's just scamming in my opinion!^^
