*Paris, France

*Brussels, Germany

Nice, France

Berlin, Germany

Westminster Bridge, London, England

London Bridge, London, England

Barcelona, Spain

These are the places where radical, estranged terrorists have attacked via a motorized vehicle.

This is only from a two-year time span.

I urge you not to casually take a glance at the Barcelona news headline, as if it were just another horrible event in the world, but take a moment to be thankful for your safety.

Everyone will then go on social media and send prayers, whether it is for likes or out of the kindness of their heart.

The days following the attack, the photos come out, blood everywhere and a look of pure terror etched onto the faces of those who witnessed the attack firsthand; the pain of those left behind are expressed through small memorials.

I feel as though danger like this has crept onto every continent and there’s no stopping its momentum. As I sit here helplessly watch the live news feed and the statistics of the situation being thrown around, I’m beginning to think of the probability of it happening here in our own backyard.

The truth is, no amount of police or space between cars and pedestrians can stop these people from completing their mission. The only way we can is to prove to them that we are more than victims.

We are more than pigs in a slaughter house — we’re people.

Together, we are more than just a society. We are humanity. We will not allow this to go on, if we stand up as one.

I am — everyone is — tired. I’m tired of living in fear of tomorrow. I’m tired of having my dreams of traveling back to Europe to visit my best friends crushed by people that think we’re just targets to get the government’s attention. I’m tired of listening and watching TV screens with yet another headline of destruction in this world. I’m tired of having to anticipate the next idiot that’s out to kill us.

I’ve walked the streets of Florence, Italy the day of the Brussels bombing, where we were herded around in an attempt to distract us from the horrible things going on in the surrounding countries.

I have had friends leave Nice, France just days before the attack, not knowing that staying the extra two days could have killed them. I have had neighbors defy the government’s word advising not to travel to London, so they could visit their son who was studying abroad at the time of the London Bridge attack.

If it doesn’t affect you, it’s affecting someone close to you.

According to a TSA report via the Chicago Tribune, 667 people have been injured and 173 people have been killed during mass vehicular terroristic attacks from the span of 2014 through April of 2017.

From here, the total will continue to rise, unless we do something. We must prove to each other that we can be a force of nature against these harmful people.

The next time you see another attack like this, show the world that you will not succumb to the stupidity and recklessness of those responsible.

*attack in major city, but not involving a vehicle.