Have we actually become animals?
Or are there some of us who have just revealed their true nature? That’s what kept me up a few nights ago. Looking over at Buddy lying there, blissfully unaware of everything that’s happening around him I wondered whether we have gone too far. Have we actually decided that we can play God? Who decided to take on that amount of responsibility? Not me that’s for sure; I have only recently become accustomed to the ‘adult life’ and the most responsibility I have is to make sure my Buddy keeps his full figure through his eating habits never mind having to run an entire country that verges on the brink of war.
And that’s scary because war, war never changes. I remember driving back home at around 3am Saturday morning after I had seen my girlfriend back to her place and as I stopped at the red light, I checked my Facebook out of habit. I received the notification that one of my friends had ‘checked in safe’ in Paris and I remember thinking “They really want to involve us in every aspect of everyone’s lives hey?” Little did I know of all the events that had happened prior to me sitting at that red light and contemplating why Facebook sent that notification. The terrorist bombings and attacks in Paris has been discussed, dissected and thrown around like an old chew toy, much like the one Buddy has and nothing new can be said that hasn’t already made the rounds except for one thing: we are the instruments of our own doing, the captains of our vessels and we have the power to change what we perceive and receive and through doing so change the values that keeps us human and not like animals.
When the terrorist group ISIS decided to attack Paris, they decided to play God and take lives for the sake of their own agenda and stood against everything that we as humans are supposed to stand for in love, tolerance and acceptance. What happened shocked me, not on a personal level but on a humane level. How can taking lives for your beliefs make you human? You might be human in the simplest sense of the word, but humanity has left you and your group. Even after facing this horrible ordeal and having to bury loved ones, Parisians kept being tolerant and loving towards their fellow man and showed the world that even in the wake of terror that they will not be broken and to me, that is humanity.
Buddy is awake now and looking outside the window at his chew toy lying on the grass. It is torn up, broken and desperately needs to be thrown away but that, that wouldn’t be the humane thing to do now would it?
