I Choose Water

 I do not understand what is going in our world at the moment.

In recent days/ weeks /months such tragedies, loss of human life, bullying and online degradation of people has made me feel extremely uneasy and a “sick in the stomach” feeling that has been niggling at me.

It is truly a sad time, and I find it so unfortunate some of the reactions that have been occurring online that I have read.

Cruel, mean, hurtful and harming.

To me, the beauty of each person on this planet is that we have been created with a brain, a mind that can form ideals, morals, and opinions.  Each and every person is made up so individually and these opinions come from an inherent make up of ours as well as the environment that we have been brought up in, our family life and our own life experience.

That is what makes each and every one of us so AMAZING!

In our ever-evolving society, we have seen such growth in industrialisation, technological improvements, ways to make our lives “easier”, there aremore things are at our fingertips which has made the world as it is today. But I believe that this also has hindered  our truest sense of humanity.

The. Human. Connection.

The News, the Internet, Social Media now makes everything today’s news, yesterday. Information is immediate just by going online and our media plays such an important yet scary role in how this is delivered to us.

How it evokes our emotion, how it drives our opinion basis.

In recent months we have seen the explosion of news and stories such as:

 

• The death of Wellness Warrior website founder Jess Ainscough
• The empire fall of Belle Gibson – founder of the The Whole Pantry App
• The Paleo diet controversy
• Vaccination in children
• The heartbreaking devastation of the earthquake in Nepal
• And this week, the executions of Andrew Chan, Myuran Sukumaran and 6 others in Indonesia.

And most of us are going to have their view, opinion on these.

Because that’s what people do.

I have chosen not to publish my own personal views on these matters because I do not feel that it would add any benefit to put my “2 cents” into the already overflowing information opinion pool online.

But I have been truly disgusted and in disbelief of some of the comments that I have read on social media about some of these events. And I do not mean about these stories – because like I said , we are all different and will think different things.

But the online bullying, degradation, directional attacks and mean, troll type comments that I have seen that have been directed to EACHOTHER has made me question whether our advancements in technology is a good thing or has it really made it so easy to be able torment each other down and possibly to breaking point.

Could it be that all of us hiding behind a computer or a mobile, have become so disconnected with people that we find it so easy to write down such damaging words directed to a fellow friend/ reader/ person – because it’s so easy to do so.

You’re just a profile online? Right?

Not in my book.

Every day, I see in my news feeds all these lovely pictures that people post of happy words, positive affirmations, of love and kindness. Where is it? Because recently, I'm finding it really hard to see.

Richard Branson put this up on Twitter. A quote from Nelson Mandela:

 

I read this quote many times over the last couple of days and it is really resonating with me. On so many levels.

 

The world.

The human.

The person.

 

You can fight fire with fire, or you can fight fire with water.

 

I choose water.

I will always choose water.