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HUMANITY

Humanity today is regressing. Whatever steps we take forward, they take us back as human beings. We live in world that has, although it has borders, it is limitless. People can travel everywhere, anywhere to see anything, experience every live feeling that ever existed, but we are not satisfied. We try to impose borders on ourselves, we fight today to be recognized as not belonging to ‘their community’, to be labeled as a part of a smaller group. We fight today to impose limits to a world in which yesterday people have fought that it did not have any. And we applauded them. We live in a world that finally recognizes all religions and beliefs and in which any person can choose his/her religion. People can worship any God, can praise the energy of nature that inspire them without feeling threatened or scared. It is the first time in history when people are not blamed for their beliefs. And we fought for this. But we now try to take this away from people. We engage in holy wars or public mockery campaigns against the religions that we don’t understand. We shut our minds from knowing more about the people around us, their thoughts and beliefs. And we blame them for being different. We live in a world that has invented the telephone, internet and social media so that people can communicate easier. But we have never felt so alone and out-of-touch as we do today. Hidden behind the screens of our computers, tablets etc. we feel alienated from what the world has to offer. We have stopped looking at nature a long time ago and we have started destroying it without thinking about the consequences. We live in a world that holds both beauty and ugliness, both joy and sorrow. We live in a world where not everyone or every person thinks alike and where this freedom of thought makes us happy. We live in a world that shows us small miracles each day, either through the beauty of nature or through the beauty of those walking through our lives. We live in a world that is limitless, which has granted us the right to be free and equal and has given us the opportunity to learn from one another. It tried to teach us the differences between us and the fact that they make equal, not tear us apart. It has tried to teach us what is important in the world and what is a right thing to fight for in our lives. We should stop for democracy in other countries and start asking if we really have a say in our own country. We should exercise the right to vote and strengthen the mechanisms of government as power corrupts even the most strong minded. We should stop giving the right to decision to a small group because they say they know the best. We know best and even if we don’t, the collective power would decide what is best. Don’t let them be the raw aristocracy. We should stop taking pictures of plants and animals to show to our family and friends. Look at the plants, animals and beauty of what nature has created to our own eyes, not the camera. Share this beauty with your friends and family by bringing them to witness the majestic wonders near us. While technology and democracy has given us the power to fast forward the world which we live in, it also corrupted us. It has given us the sense of absolute power and knowledge that makes a person feel life God, we are not God and we cannot decide on the fate of others. God alone has that right. But we can and we must change ourselves by taking knowledgeable decisions, making the right choices in life and not letting others decide for us.

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