Sonntag, 10. Juli 2016

Something that needs to be talked about...


           There is way too much violence in the world right now. Which makes me think a lot, but also it makes me pretty sad. I don`t know but it is just very hard to imagine when you are in your little princess world, living your princess dream right in the beautiful mountains, like I do. Here, I am just not thinking that the world around me is falling into pieces. I live a very, very great and SAFE life. 
           
            We all hear these horrible things day to day, but it seems like we just shut our ears when these things come to discussion. We hear it so much that we stopped listening. We know about it all, but to really realize what is happening, it takes a lot more than just listening. It takes communication and discussion, it seems to me that everyone is just avoiding the truth. Nobody really tries to talk about it, because it just makes us sad and even a little disappointed. I am not sure yet why we get disappointed, but we have a really bad feeling in us when we talk about it. I think the truth is, we all feel pretty responsible for what is going on. 

            The other day in history class we learned about the old black folk. They have put real black people into the zoo, just so the white people could go and watch how the `Wild` ones where living. Families where ripped apart, thrown in cages like animals. I got so angry about that I had to behave myself from not hating our world a little too much. Everything got back to normal as I realized that was a long time ago. But no! Black people are still treated like this, maybe even worse! And I got angry again, angry and hopelessly drowning in thoughts. 

           Then I watched this video on Instagram, it just popped up on my phone and I couldn`t take my eyes of of it. I watched it and I bruised into tears. Two cops where holding this black man, he said some things I couldn`t understand, but he sounded so scared. They clearly had him under control and he begged them not to shut him, and what did they do? The cop shut that man 5 times right in his breast, his hand still shacked and so he shut his hand one more time. Then the video was at it is end and all I thought was… and those horrible people are cops? I don`t know if they had their reasons to shut him, but all I know is that, that is how our Generation works. If there is a problem a horrible amount of people would take a gun and solve it that way. Problem is, that is not the answer. If we let things like this, keep happening I don`t know where we can go from that. 

            Fact is, I was in shock because I live in my little princess live and I am just not used to seeing stuff like this. To be honest I think no one at the age of 15, should watch on their phone how a man gets shut 5 times. In this little place in Switzerland that I live, lives not a single black person. I wouldn`t say we are shut away from what is going on, we have a lot of tourists and we are pretty open and modern people and we know very well what is going on in the world. But to really realize it, that takes a bit more than just hearing it in the news. I guess it takes a shocking video like that to get out of our fairytale village. 

            My big Question is, (after discussing that with a lot of adult people) why does the media keep us on track what is going on in America or in Serbia or in any other country that is so far from us. Why do we know all that stuff? It does nothing than scare us, or make us angry. We all know that social media is taking over the world. I know, we are actually really tired of hearing that. Truth is, the violence probably always been this brutal and uncontrollable, now we just have cameras that film every little part of that terrorism. In my opinion that is not always a good thing. I am pretty sure there is a Serbian girl at the age of 15 who has a perfectly normal life like I do, I just don`t know about that. People will now think: But that benefits no one, we are not interested in a girl that lives a perfectly normal life. Let`s be honest, yeah a perfectly normal life is nothing interesting, but to report the bad things is not helping anyone either. Is it really helping anyone that I know how the people so far away from me are living, I can`t do anything against that. I am sorry if you have a completely different opinion and I hope I didn`t offend anyone. I could be completely wrong, but that is just what I know and think at my young age. 
            
            Be kind to one another! I know you hear, or read this day to day, but I mean it! Let`s try to throw a little more kindness around. And also, let`s not shut our mouths on something that needs to be talked about! 

            I guess that is all i had to say... Bye bye <3