Hello readers. I will keep this week's article short for a few reasons. One, I'm terrible at deadlines (sorry editors), and two, with not much going on besides working and catching up with family and friends, I haven't found much stimulation or rather it's easier said than done to create original, new and fresh content each week amidst the happenings of sometimes dull summer life.
But no matter how busy and exciting or slow and dormant our lives may seem some days, one thing important to keep in mind is that there is life happening outside of your circle, outside of what you know.
Some several states down south of my home in Massachusetts, tragedy struck. I woke up this morning scrolling not on Instagram, but the news. Now I'm not an avid news watcher as I probably should be. It's depressing and 8 out of 10 stories are of tragedy or random celebrities I couldn't care less about. However, I'll catch up on these seemingly important matters that are aired to us to make myself knowledgable and feel somewhat more productive. The first article I read was not one of a new BuzzFeed food recipe or zoo attack, but one of complete disaster and seriousness.
I try to keep my articles light, current and funny (at least what some people including myself think of as funny), but this is more serious. There are so many news outlets, articles, and reports that are sad and even morbid because the world can be exactly that at times. The world can be a miraculous and wonderful place, in fact is, but it is also austere and cruel.
On early Sunday morning at an Orlando, FL gay nightclub, people who were out to just have a good time saw it to be their last. A shooter, Omar Mateen of Ft. Pierce, Florida, shot down 50 people and sent 53 to the hospital with serious injuries. The story is still young and updating, but what has happened has been spoken as "an act of terror and of an act of hate" by Presidemt Obama and stated by CNN news as "the deadliest shooting in history" since Virginia Tech in 2007 and Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, with 32 and 27 killed. There are casualties unidentified and people grieving.
People are hurting. People are frightened. People are vulnerable. People are fighters. People are straight. People are gay. People are confused. People are black and people are white. At the end of the day, people are people and a person is a person. We are one human race and still we fight against one another so frequently. We ruin one another even though we feel the same feelings and have the same parts.
I am scared of the acts and feelings some people are capable of. I'd be lying if I said I was not. But what trumps the fear is faith.
Faith in love and faith in human beings who spread love, comfort and support. These people, who we should strive to be, outnumber the bad in the world. We cannot live in disappointment and grief, but we as a human race must if anything at all, love and accept. We have to remind ourselves and teach our youth that when you see another person we cannot just see who they may be sexually attracted to, the color of their skin, their political party; we must see who they are inside and who they have the potential to be. To do otherwise would to cheat them and cheat ourselves.
When horrific incidents like what occurred in Orlando happen, we must take credit of what we've been faced with and move forward. It is what we have done in the past, and it is what gets us through to our future. It does not take much to be a good person, and it does not take much more to accept a person for more than just their face value.
To those greiving, I send all my thoughts. And to those outside of Orlando,Florida unaffected directly, we must help those in need move on in anyway that we can. And we must move on in love and strength. Wishing safety and hope,
Stay Gucci readers.
