I Feel Terrible

Actually, there is nothing wrong with me, but I am hurt for the people lost at sea in the Mediterranean and for the people who are almost certainly dead at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. However, the tragedies differ in scale and our reactions to them. Dozens, if not hundreds, of people are still dead.

I can’t bring myself to separate the two tragedies because both should have been prevented. An overcrowded ship and an unsafe submersible both result in people dying.

I don’t care about their wealth or poverty. There is a tragedy when people flee one part of the world for a better life, and instead, they find death. Another tragedy is when people throw their wealth around to do something inherently dangerous just because they have that wealth. None of them deserved to die like that.

I know I am reacting out of Kindness, and I am glad I am human enough to feel these losses. Our world is so fucked up right now. We keep finding new and improved ways to hurt and kill each other, but we never devote that same effort to caring about one another, and that is the problem.

The sad part is we won’t learn this lesson. We will repeat the same mistakes, keep the same practices in place, and ignore the suffering of others who aren’t in our immediate families or neighborhoods.

I’m screaming into the void again. Not enough people care. It is too hard to think of others, society conditions us to be selfish, and to distrust people we don’t know, and society makes it easy not to give a shit anymore. As long as we are isolated from each other, we will pay lip service to tragedies that should never happen, but just like gun violence here in the USA, not a goddamn thing will ever change.