Humanity Is Doomed...
We are not angels. Angels reside in heaven. We are human. But for how long can we possess humanity?
Thousands die each day from disease and war, yet did you blink when I mentioned that? Did you take a moment to consider a person, whose essence has been torn asunder from their bodies, their family? What was their story? What did they have to share with this world?
Have we become so desensitized, so inhumane that this is insignificant? When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, will we simply give up, will we only care for ourselves and not for our fellow man? Have we become so deluded by grandeur that anything below us is inconsequential?
This world has suffered enough, especially at the hands of humans. We have annihilated forest after forest, species after species and haven after haven. There are few places left that haven’t been tainted by the corruption of man.
I am sick and tired of this desensitization. I’m sick of the mothers’ crying at night for their lost and forgotten child. I’m tired of children growing up without support, without structure, without a father. We are humans: it should be intrinsic to help, to grow, to share.
Yet we have lost our rightful ways. Humanity has fallen from grace not by cruelty or torture, but by indifference. Our age of potential will remain just that – potential – if we do not act!
With this Armageddon-like talk, it would be worthless without evidence of help or hope.
Within all of us rests a shining light that is dimmed by indifference. Yet this brilliance never diminishes, there is always an inkling of hope in the darkest of nights.
I challenge every single one who hears and truly listens, reads and truly understands this tale to partake in an act of random kindness – to share, to care, to be human. I challenge them to truly empathise for all the men, women and children out there who have been dealt a blow - who have lost, who have loved. Who have suffered, who have laughed. Who have cried, who have smiled. Get up off that lazy floor and DO something to help your fellow man. Be it a person on the street or man in a corner. Be it your friend or an unknown neighbour; help this world!
Yes, there is tragedy. Yes, there is famine, starvation, rape, murder, war. But there is also optimism, contentment, courage, kindness, laughter, love!
I have helped animals, people, this earth and myself, just by caring. Just by giving a damn when perhaps others do not. By giving of myself and what I have to those who truly need the help. The payment I received? A smile; the knowledge of knowing I made a difference to a person for one moment of their life. That, I will never forget.