Thanks for sharing this emotional letter to us, i really agree with you ,i'm fulll of emotions right now and thinking of life.
We live in a world that has never been such at peace as it is today. But still nations invest in arming themselves and preparing for the inevitable “next war”, individuals get bombarded each day through the media by images and sounds of guns going off, of mothers crying after their children. We tell our children than they should protect themselves, that the boogeyman is always just behind the corner masked as a Muslim, Christian, masked as the people you don't understand what you don't like And we then wonder why children start shooting their colleagues.
We live in a world that has invented the telephone, internet, 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, Smartphones, 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 prides itself through the work of geniuses. Their work is promoted in order to inspire and enliven us, to guide and help us realize our full potential. But we ridicule them, treat them as pariahs of the society. And we let mediocrity rule the way our lives turn out.
We live in a world that gives birth to great leaders. But we let ourselves be ruled by a small group of politicians that take the vote of many and make it insignificant. They have the power to change our lives, but they don`t. And we continue to support them considering that we have no alternative.
We live in a world that has created beautiful music, inspiring literature and breathtaking sceneries. But we continue to spend our days trapped behind a desk eight hours a day, dreaming of things that we could do differently in our lives instead of doing those things. We dream of wealth, we dream of happiness, we dream of conquering the world and changing its fate. But we never walk down the path that could lead to those dreams becoming reality.
Hey @niniviolet!
Thanks for your comment. You have a quite negative view on the world. I hope you're OK.
That's a bit extreme. I mean yes, there are a lot of people who don't leave their houses anymore, sitting 24 hours in front of their computers. However, a couple of years back they were sitting in front of the TV and before that they were probably sitting there anyways doing whatever.
There is this saying that the weapon doesn't make the killer. You could say that all these devices have changed our world, but it's not like that. We created them.
People who have weak personalities will always behave in strange ways, no matter the tools you provide them. Social media is not the problem, the problem are these sick people.
Well I can't speak for anybody else here, but I'm right now on that path - or better said: I was on that path :-)
Not every social media user is a mad freak. We have to be careful when generalizing such things.
Again thanks for your valuable thoughts!
Wishing you a great weekend :-)