Over the past month, I have gone through my Facebook wall and seen hundreds of videos that make me disappointed to live in the world I currently live in. There were always those events from time to time that make me wonder how someone or a certain group of people could hold so much hatred to make them do what they do. But, recently it seems that there is no good among the bad whatsoever. It is as if the bad has tremendously outweighed all the good that this world has the capacity to hold. The world was not always like this; it didn’t need metal detectors to get into schools, it didn’t need the immense amount of airport security, it didn’t need people to live in every day fear that their world could fall apart in any instant, and it most certainly didn’t need the hatred that people hold in their hearts instead of love.
Recently, I have been questioning how the world ever was able to get this way. How could someone have no compassion or even the tiniest bit of human inside of him or her to take another innocent person from this earth? How could someone wake up one morning and say, “today is the day I will shoot people because they aren’t exactly like me?” How could someone disdain a woman so much as to rape her and blame it on one too many drinks? How could the world ever go from a 10-year-old being able to walk around the block by themselves to a 17-year-old being scared to step even outside his or her house? Among many other questions, I have realized I will never find the answer to any single one of these.
Today, we live in such darkness and are quite often surrounded by so much hatred. The judgments people hold of each other now make it hard to live in a world where you can feel so called 'normal'. So in my opinion, this hatred has arisen from how our world has begun to evolve. While the world is evolving, so are people. But one thing remains unchanged. We are all human beings. We can not help it if we are Indian, White, Black, Spanish, Chinese, etc. We cannot help the way we come into this world and this is something we can not change. What we can change, however, is our outlook on people and the world, and realize that although people may be different from one another, they are truly the same down to the core. We are only human beings put on this Earth to make it a better place. But instead of making it a better place, we are seeing crime, evil, shootings, etc. If we could change something it would be to let LOVE cast out hate. By changing your outlook, we can step by step change the world. If we don't change the world at least the tiniest bit then I am afraid of what is going to come.
Try to understand a person before judging them. Show compassion for the unknown battles people are fighting inside, instead of insulting the way they act or the things they do. Embrace every day with a smile and kindness, for I believe that if people are surrounded by good it will eventually rub off. Remember that each word spoken to another person holds some sort of significant so love one another the way you would want to be loved in return.
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that." -Martin Luther King Jr.
