Recently I watched the movie Hotel Rwanda again. Although I have seen it before, it did not hit me so hard as it did when I saw it again. It reminds you of how the state of the world is in such terrible condition. You may run into people in your everyday life that you believe not to be good people. But after realizing that some people are capable of aiding in the murder of one million people due to the fact that they are a certain race, the people you see everyday who just sort of piss you off seem like they’re heaven-sent.
To even fathom the idea that people are simply that disgusting is unimaginable. I cannot process how people are so cold and heartless. Even calling them “cold and heartless” isn’t enough. It seems like there are no words to describe these people. They are poison to this world.
This really gets you thinking about the notion that everything happens for a reason. I have always been a believer in this. I like to think that out of every bad situation or experience I go through, I am a better person for it and I am one step closer to learning how to survive. When people come to me for advice, I usually remind them that things always happen for a reason.
If things do always happen for a reason, what good came out of the Holocaust? The Rwandan genocide? 9/11? Murders that happen every day? Suicide?
Maybe in little situations, things happen for a reason. Little life lessons. But out of everything mentioned above, what good possibly came out of it? After the Holocaust, the world said that never again would such a mass killing occur. How could the UN have screwed up so badly as they did with the Rwandan genocide? How could the world have turned a blind eye to everything that was happening?
As much as you want to remember those who died, it is not worth remembering how they died. They died in a dreadful way, and thinking about it sort of makes you come to the realization that there is little or no faith left in humanity. People have always fought wars and killed people and have condoned evil doing throughout our history, but you would like to think that at such an age where technology has come so far that people would be more level-headed.
So, as violence breaks out and grows in Kenya as I type this, don’t turn a blind eye to it. If you as a person have any sort of power, it is spreading knowledge. It may seem like nothing to you, but think about what you’re spending time on in your life. Are you obsessed with news stories about Britney Spears (which has to be the most unimportant topic I could think of), or are you talking to people about issues that actually matter? Many of you reading this are journalism students at Mohawk. What do you want your career to be about?
All these pictures have been taken in the past month.
Taken from http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Kenya-Elections/ss/events/wl/123007kenyaelections
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