Pray for Oaxaca. Pray for Paris. Pray for Orlando. Pray for Dallas. Pray for Istanbul. Pray for Baghdad. It seems that all we can ever post on social media is the what is going on with the world. That’s all we do. I am guilty of it just as much as any other person. We send our “prayers,” and we probably don’t even end up praying. It has become notable that there is no such thing as humanity and love for one another. We let borders around the world to label who we are, who we aren’t, and where we can or cannot be. We let the color of our skin determine whether we are worthy or not worthy of safety, interaction, and one of the many: stereotyping. We believe that religion is what destroys one another. We think that by holding an assault rifle, a gun, a weapon can help us attain protection. We believe that by praying we will allow all or problems on earth to dissolve. But what happens when that is not true?
What happens when you just put up that post, hashtag, or picture to simply show people you know what’s going on? What happens when a black person gets shot by a cop? Who do you side with? What happens when a cop gets shot? What do you do when you hear about a child left abandoned because his parents where here illegally to provide him a better future? What happens when Paris has a terrorist attack, but later on in the year, so does another city, with a large Muslim population. And we don’t give them any attention.
What are we doing to each other? I am a believer in prayer, but even I know that the power of prayer won’t solve all the hate in this world. We are hypocrites. We don’t like people coming to this country, yet we like traveling to others. We say that Muslims are to blame for all types of shootings at home, yet we don’t let a white man be labeled a terrorist for shooting five year olds in Connecticut or in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.
What we need to stop doing is thinking that all these problem will solves themselves. They won’t. Action is the only way that we will allow some type of positive change to help this world. We want to live in a place where a Black person is not stared down and stereotyped by the color of their skin. We want to live in a world where Muslims are not judged by what they wear or what they practice. We want to live in a world where Hispanics and Mexicans are not stereotyped as rapists and criminals. We want to live in a world where the LGBTQ community is embraced with love. We want to live in a world where borders don’t define where we come from and where we go. We want to live in a world that respects not only humans themselves, but the wildlife that surrounds us all.
What are we teaching kids? Hate? Destruction of life? Who are we crying to? What are we crying about?
Now in days everything is so negative. We are destroying each other! A race that was created to be beautiful. A race that was made to flourish each other and protect animals and the nature they were apart of is now destroying it. Am I giving up on the human race? I don’t know. All I know is that we all need to be the change we want to see in the world. Spread love. Be a peacemaker. Stop drawing lines. Stop the labeling. Stop the stereotyping. Educate yourself. Change this world.
“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture is the set.” – H.H. The Dalai Lama
