There isn’t a more beautiful saying than, “In a world where you can be anything, be kind”. Unfortunately, this is exactly the quality that’s been missing among the people of planet earth. Empathy, kindness and the like are some of the virtues these days that are hard to find among the GenZ. This generation claims and professes to be wise, but in reality their self-proclaimed superior intellect is ineffectual if it is not coupled with a heart of warmth and kindness. We as a society are failing ourselves and the ones around us by being hardhearted, stubborn and tremendously hate-filled. Empathy is virtually non-existent. It has become a rare commodity.
Empathy also is akin to bravery. But unfortunately, our society has increasingly become self centred so much so that if someone is being attacked, filming that in their smartphones comes first in the priority list rather than intervening and stopping the violence. It beats me how people can record such videos without actually stepping in to rescue the person or the victim attacked.
Humanity is disappearing slowly and a casual skimming of social media comments on posts will reveal the present state of society at large. Vitriolic hate just because they are of a different religion, caste or creed or whatever can be seen on facebook, Instagram and on YouTube.
Comments that are loaded with hate and poison are typed by keyboard warriors who probably have nothing to do in life and hence keep evangelising evil. Ubiquitously, there is war, terrorism and all other vice of the like in the world. The earth is replete with people who have empathy as the least in their hierarchy.
Only the good Lord has to take away our hearts of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh. Or else, we are headed towards a very difficult path.
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