Yesterday, I talked about our desire to give.
Today is a new day.
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
I feel like all Hitler needed as
a child was a hug and someone loving to talk to. He needed a bro.
Maybe then things would have been different? All jokes aside, I don’t
think there is such thing as something that is inherently “bad”
or “evil”. Cause and effect applies to everything in one way or
another, so such beings are created, whether by the hands of abuse or
through misunderstandings, not born.
Throughout my studies in
psychology, a common thing I’d read about regarding deviancy and
“abnormal” behavior is that people often (whether consciously or
not) resort to doing “bad” things as a cry for attention. Like
the child knocking their plate off the table in hopes that their
parents will notice and scold them. Any attention is better than
none.
A friend of mine is going through
some depression and she’s been posting a lot of memes and whatnot
on facebook. Occasionally she’ll post something regarding
depression and they’re become more and more estranged. Many might
write it off as simply craving sympathy and validation. Having
experienced depression myself, I feel like it’s a call for someone
to come help her. She could of course simply ask for help directly,
but depression isn’t logical, nor is the state of mind when under
it’s influence.
Society likes to look away from
what it doesn’t find pleasant. “Ignore it enough and it’ll go
away”, perhaps? Whatever the reason might be, the signs are often
there when something goes awry and if we simply ignore them who knows
what might come of them? Ignoring them backs troubled people into a
corner and when that happens the dynamite goes off and these cries
for help reach extremes. That’s how we have things like shootings,
suicides, and sociopaths who threw away their ability to empathize
with others.
We all go through hardship.
Sometimes all it takes is reaching out to someone in need to help
them out.
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| Depression is a long and lonely road. What may look fine could very well be screaming for someone to listen. |
Today’s assignment: Consider what “terrible thing” you’d like to help.
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