Real strength comes in restraint, not excess or transgression.

When you witness human suffering and choose to turn a blind eye, are you human?

We have all suffered in life, some so much they seem to have lost their sense, their touch. But surely it should make you more sensitive, surely you would feel the same pain and automatically want to help.

What makes a human like you ignore someone’s suffering? Surely the answer cannot be dehumanisation because that is the path to self-destruction, denial of our innate dignity, denial of our creator, denial of our neighbour.

If we treat our fellow human beings as animals what is to become of us? How can we deserve this life, this beautiful earth, our nature, our existence, the sun, moon and the stars? Surely people, no matter who they are, deserve mercy.

Because if not, we are done.

If we cannot find it in ourselves to feel pain when our sisters and brothers are humiliated, crushed, annihilated, tortured, burned, choked, shot, ripped apart, terrified, exploded, killed, maimed, left to rot, to be eaten by cats and dogs, not allowed to rest in peace, to be burned, to be reburied, to be stolen.

The simple universal dignity to all, to live and die in respect. If total massacre, destruction, cleansing, annihilation, extermination is the path we choose, what then? How can we look each other in the eye, how do we hope to find peace?

You cannot force others to disappear. We are all one and the same, blood runs in all our veins.

The white flag of surrender is our sign for mercy, so don’t shoot. Why humiliate a dead person once they are already dead? Is this how you hope to live in peace? Why make houses inhabitable? Why destroy people who do not participate in the fight? What glory and honour are gained? How can you look at me in the eye and say hello after all your hate has burned a hole in your own soul?

Hate is born out of fear. Take a walk. Look deep inside your own soul. Don’t be distracted, see the truth, don’t be blinded by hatred and fake narratives, believe in our common pain and common origins, our common nature.

Believe in our collective humanity, before it is too late.