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The last few days I’ve been seeing things. Things that must only exist in movies. I’ve tried to find a way to deal with the sadness these events ignited by finding humour in other happenings as I usually do. But there is only one fuckening right now and it can’t be overseen. Not even David Hasselhoffs ‘Limbo Dance’ lifted my mood and that means it is serious. (Btw. I’d like you to know that autocorrect just tried to change Mr Hasselhoff into Hassel off.) A lack of empathy is why violence happens. We are all very different. Individuals. We feel, hear and see differently. Every single one of us is truly and significantly different so we don’t get bored with each other but learn from one another. There are emotions that can be hard to control. It’s an individual choice to act on these emotions, which are felt slightly different by each human. Now the question is, do we base this choice to act on empathy or not? If not on empathy – what is it then based on? I’ve studied my behaviour and myself. I’ve studied others. I’ve watched them, listened to their stories and asked questions to help me understand other truths. At the end there’s empathy or ego. If it’s about mental or physical violence there are no opinions. A bruise is a bruise. (Mentally AND physically). It hurts. What if every bruise you’ve ever seen would hurt as if it was done to you? Or if this wasn’t enough – what if every bruise you’ve ever seen would hurt you as if you’d seen it on your mom or your child or any most loved person in your life? Would you still want there to be bruises at all? You want to know how the first person was created? I want to know how it came to the first bruise. Or how life felt without bruising causing egos. And if you having thoughts like ‘if anybody ever bruises my mom I’ll bruise them too’ – well there is that ego I’m talking about, which got us into all this in the first place. Can anybody even visualize a world without hurt anymore? Did the movies become too real? Isn’t it enough to live those emotions thru an actor or a made up horror book? Did we get bored with happiness? People that know life in a well off society have no life threatening problems. And if you are reading this you are one of them. We are fine. We got space to help. Can we focus on feeding every single individual with food and love instead of bruising each other? Can we do that? It’s easy. I’m gonna tell you what to do:

Cut the ego – instead feed the hungry.

Cut the destruction – instead create and maintain.

Cut the opinions – instead teach gently how to do better.

Cut the power games on every level – it starts with the flies trying to sit on your nose.

Control thoughts.

Control emotions. Turn them into something creative.

Again - disconnected from your own ego. I repeat – ***** your ego.

Find true empathy. Find it in you and give everyone around you the opportunity and time to do the same.

And then listen. Always listen. And then listen again before you even think about reacting in a hurtful manner.