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posted August 11, 2014 06:28 PM            

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There's a movie that many of you probably have seen/heard of, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". In which, Charlie (the main character) says something along the lines of, "There's so much pain and I don't know how to not notice it." He was referring to the pain of everyone around him. At first, I didn't give the quote much thought, and then I began to realize how true that really is.

Normally, I notice the pain of everyone around me but it doesn't phase me because they are minuscule, everyday problems. Easy fixes. But today, I've been seeing so much that's going on.

There's the basically modern-day Holocaust happening in Gaza and Iraq right now because of religion. There was London putting up spikes where the homeless would seek shelter, to run them out instead of offering help and homes. There's the justice issue with police shooting and killing black youth who are 99.9% of the time unarmed, and not being penalized for their crimes. I read a story about a woman (pictures were included, which genuinely made me feel sick to my stomach and made my heart feel so heavy) whose ex-boyfriend came back after months to find her in her home with another man (both were fully clothed, they were only friends) and he [the ex-boyfriend] proceeded to beat the girl's friend, then kick him out. Then he turned his rage onto the woman, where he broke over 18 bones in her body, stabbed her, attempted to rape her, and probably would have killed her had she not escaped. The pictures were so heartbreaking to look at.

It just makes me wonder... How on earth can people be so cold? Maybe it's because I'm young and I just can't understand it all.. But Jesus Christ. Why aren't we helping people instead of ostracizing them for being less fortunate, or being different? We [as human beings] have this mindset that "other people aren't our responsibilities" but they are.. We're all one another's responsibilities.. We're all each other have.. Am I wrong?

I'm sorry to vent, I know there aren't answers to a lot of the questions I ask, I'm just so disgusted by the human race sometimes and have such a hard time understanding. And, like Charlie said, it's just so hard to not notice the pain that's everywhere.

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posted August 11, 2014 10:38 PM            

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I feel much the same as you have expressed.
How can people be like that?
Just horrible and depressing to say the least.

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posted August 11, 2014 10:42 PM            

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I feel you...I wish I had something very profound and constructive to say.

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posted August 12, 2014 12:18 AM            

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I know how you feel... I want to become a humanitarian for the purpose of helping people in situations like these. The intense cruelty human beings are capable of is truly disturbing. However, with darkness also comes light, and with hatred comes love. There's always two sides to the coin. I try to believe in the capability for human goodness as much as I acknowledge the potential and disturbing intensity of human evil that seems to be coming up all around the world. I feel that much of human evil is based on unjust social institutions (racism, sexism, classism, ageism) that are predominant in the first world. Racism in particular is a huge issue at the moment, and rightfully so, because POC are standing up for themselves and pushing non-POC in America to see the truth about the power and evil of institutionalized racism. Hopefully when Pluto enters Aquarius, we will start tearing down and reworking many of America's unjust social institutions, in particular.

I feel many individuals are afraid of opening their hearts to accepting and receiving pain in both their lives and the outside world because they are not strong enough to accept what is going on around them...so they bury their heads in the sand and avoid feeling, and more importantly, letting their hearts break. Heartbreak from seeing the ills of the world and life in general may be intense but you can recover from it. You can use your experience to grow, to take action, to have a different perspective. There is a kind of control lost in allowing oneself to give into sorrow, anguish and misery about something one sees or experiences, and some cold and cruel people will not let themselves empathize due to a fear of losing control. People seem to avoid being deeply touched by sorrows because either consciously or unconsciously, they fear losing themselves in it. They are afraid to feel, but especially sadness.

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posted August 12, 2014 05:25 PM            

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^ exactly...
I can recognize myself in your second paragraph. :/

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posted August 14, 2014 07:32 PM            

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I've never heard of that movie.

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posted August 14, 2014 08:28 PM            

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I feel you, makes my blood boil...can't even watch the news. Humans are capable of horrific things but of amazing things at the same time. The situation in Gaza and Iraq is breaking my heart...just saw there was another shooting in the US. Sometimes I feel like humans are thr worst thing that happened to this planet, I have a lot of friends but I have bouts where I genuinely hate people and stupid small talk when I see stuff like this going on.

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