Seeing war from afar is a surreal experience. It’s like watching a movie. One of those you have seen all your life. With bullets, explosions, and sporadic heroes. And the villain who you want to see dead but he doesn’t die. He is there. Always with his plan, always with his assistants. Always lucky.
In the movies, though, you know that somehow magically, the villain will get what he deserves, and we all go to live a somewhat peaceful life in a world that only shows us false truths. But they make you happy and unhappy at the same time. Then you wake up in real life and realize that when there is war in the real world it is something very different. It’s not a two-and-a-half-hour experience, where the hero with cero chances somehow makes it and exterminates the evil in the world before you finish your favorite snack.
In real life, it touches you deeply. It touches your skin. It touches your soul, it touches your heart, it touches your life. Because you don’t know what will happen tomorrow, you ask yourself, have I done something worthwhile? Because that is the great question of the human being. What is my value, my role in this world? What weight does my life put in these moments when thousands of souls suffer and others suddenly fade?
In real life, something happens to you that eats you inside. You are there, far from the deadly battlefields. Away from the pain. Far from anguish. You are there in front of a television that you can turn off at any time and go on with your life. You go for drinks. You see your friends. You hug your children. And when you go to close your eyes to sleep you realize that you really have everything. That there is nothing else you need to be happy and that war is far, far away from your world, your bubble, your bad mood at breakfast, the boss you can’t stand, the life you think isn’t yours because you deserve something better.
But no. You don’t want to see reality. You don’t want to remember the images you saw on the evening news. That of the mother protecting her children from pain. Or that father who says goodbye between the tears that he tries to hide to look stronger. Or the image of those children who do not understand that they have to flee, and you are there in your warm bed, and you still complain about your little world. Looking for someone who likes your new social media post. Powerless to the world where you really belong. You realize that this real-world depends on beings much more influential than you. And you get discouraged, YOU FEEL THAT THERE IS NO SOLUTION.
But…. There is something powerful behind the pain of war, however. How that human instinct rages within. Your desire to do something else, your heart that drives you to get out of there, out of your little bubble. And you go out to the streets, you realize that you are not alone, that many think like you, and that only with your words, with your powerful spirit, you can generate a change.
It may not go by as fast as in the movies. Rest assured that if your human instinct wakes up after the war and drives you to fight for love and freedom, which is everyone’s right, that single inspiration is what is needed to start repairing this planet on which we live, and It’s why we get up every morning. We are human beings who only seek to be happy. We should not be afraid to get up and face the one who wants to interrupt our purpose. You must know that nothing can stop the ability of a heart to illuminate its surroundings and create a fire that extinguishes the evil that exists. Do something TODAY. Awake. Feel your heart throbbing. And go out and fight for humanity because they are taking it away from us in front of our eyes. Realize that we are not in a movie and that we are in need of real heroes right now.
If you want to help the people in Ukraine, here is a link with a list of organizations that you can approach to do so.
