The world is SILENT

Empathy is defined as the ability to understand the thoughts feelings or emotions, perspective and reality of someone else, and being able to "put yourself in another person's shoes". But the question is can we really put ourselves in another person’s shoes? Can we really understand their thoughts and feelings? As we said a long with this course that people are complicated, and their complexities make who they are, so as a result, I think you can never understand someone’s reality, maybe you can try to, maybe you’ll think you did it, but actually you did not.

A couple of things we say sometimes when we try to empathize with someone, like “ I know what you feel and what you’re going through” or “ I know how hard and sad it is” or “ I totally understand”, but we say that to make them feel better, or maybe because we think we really understand them, because we had a similar experience before, or a similar feeling, but we can never totally understand their situations. However, it’s really important and usually helpful, it makes you appear much more caring and approachable, because you increase your interest in what others think, feel, and experience, which makes you able to see the world from a variety of perspectives, it also help others by making them feel that you care about them, which mostly make them feel understood and supported, it can help them stay motivated.

The lack of empathy is one of the biggest reasons behind the conflicts which shows the lake of humanity. People stopped feeling each other, we’re living in a battlefield, people are killing each other every day with no sense of humanity, and instead of creating compassion and concern towards each other we create hatred and frustration. Dividing people in different groups, based on wealth, religion, countries, caste, community, political affiliations, region, customs and languages make people get separated from each other and they become competitors, rivals and even enemies, and war is the biggest example about that.

War is an international issue that the whole world is talking about, hundreds of organizations, charities, congresses, and consultations, but we still can’t take a serious step towards it. The war impacts are many, and listing them is easy, but changing and stopping them is something the whole world can’t do.

War affects children in all the ways it affects adults, and sometimes even more. Children are dependent on the care, empathy, and attention of adults who love them and when they lose it,due to the loss of parents in the war, it may adversely affect the life trajectory of children far more than adults. Children lose the opportunity for education during war, when they’re forced to move into refugee or displaced person camps, where they wait for years in miserable circumstances for normal life to resume, if it ever does.

Long after the war has ended, children lives will never attain the potential they had before the impact of war. If those children survived, they would never forget what they’ve been through, the things they have seen, the sound of the bombs will stay in their minds forever, they would see bloody color everywhere, people’s screaming will always stay in their minds. They’ll lose the sense of peace, they’ll always be frightened from everything around and they’ll see all people as enemies who want to harm them.

When childhood should be a beautiful stage to remember, and kids should live their best life during it, the opposite is happening with those children in war. War is not just killing children, it’s killing the future of the ones who survived from it.

I hope that this war stop, I hope we can spread peace all over the world, I hope we can save those children souls from harm. I know it's hard, but at least we can try, we can speak up and stop being silent, even though nobody can hear our voices, but with several attempts maybe we can do something. But for now we can help with things we can easily do. For example donations, we can donate for those children, there are many charities who are collecting donations for those children and also for adults, for everybody who suffered from war, to provide them a better lives, food, homes, health care, and safety.