Unfamiliar World

Dear Caroline,

I wanted to send you this letter so you can see how similar we are, yet how completely different the worlds we are in.

I am looking back through the physical photos we have and of the people chanting in the streets for change. All of screams and cries for a better world. A world where genocide isn’t allowed. I wish I could say we have achieved this dream but we’re far from it.

Captalism.

Although many have tried to achieve a better way or even abolish it completely, the scarcity mindset always won. People always strive for what they don’t have and what a lot of people didn’t have is enough money. Is it money that brings people happiness or is it freedom? Unfortunately it’s hard to find one without the other.

This world is unfamiliar but so familiar. We have developed ways of living in a better way, we have a world where don’t let people starve to death unless it’s by choice. We have a way of saving lives and a way to prevent death but all of that is futile. We have lost our humanity. We have all the technology and the means but we also have greed. And with greed comes fear and with fear comes hatred.

We are running around in circles like hamsters in a broken wheel just desperately trying to make this world better whilst others want nothing but to see its destruction. And I can’t blame them. How can we blindly live in a world with so much money and power and opportunity and resources, yet refuse to give it to all.

The genocide has never ended.

It just took different forms over the years. We achieved liberation whilst sacrificing the freedom of others.

But I will not bore you with the same story.

My hope is for an unfamiliar world; a world where we only see each other as humans. Nothing more, nothing less.