Scribble #11

"Please guns, please stop. I'm waiting for the shooting to stop. I don't dare to breathe - make them think I'm dead. What have we done to make you want us dead? Guns are everywhere and nameless, just like the people of the public going about our day. We are alike in that way. So why shoot at us? We are nameless and faceless to you. The only enemies are the ones who handle you, who use you. Am I dead? I feel dead. Dead to the world. The world is dead. Where is my family? I'm alone in the dead world. 

Silence. At last."

Misogyny, sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia, classism - all types of prejudice and bigotry come from a similar, distinguished root. The root of the problem is that the privileged want the entitlement they feel they have to treat marginalised or "other, lesser" groups of people however they want and not fear any reprimands. What they do fear more than anything is change, a revolution. They do not wish to share their privilege and fair treatment by society, and get extremely, irrationally protective of it. Something - a big part of their easier lives - will be taken away, they think. They stubbornly remain part of the very human problem of the invisible groups of people struggling for survival and respect - which the dominant classes themselves started and from which they reap the benefits without even consciously realising it. We only live in one world, and we are all human; different and unique in so many ways. Let's all share, care and love each other for it.

Hatred is destructive. It destroys, takes away and consumes everything, leaving nothing left within and without oneself but emptiness. Rage is an evil weapon with no satisfaction. But love is giving, nurturing, caring, listening, understanding, and forgiving - there us no shortage of love on earth. It is a pure, untarnished cycle that gives and takes, goes up and down, and never runs out and leaves a drought, causing emptiness. Love is the ultimate fulfilment.