I do realize that those in America are living their lives and focusing on their well being, but these kind hearted, beautiful souls that I’ve met are fighting each day to keep their family on the same bus. Hoping to all go to the same refugee camp. It’s real and it’s scary.
I called my boyfriend to tell him about my day and he admired my friends and I for our big hearts. I’m more sad that we are admired for our good hearts and that there aren’t more people living for theirs.
I wish I could make people care.
I wish I could make them understand.
It’s as if we have just accepted these terrible stacks of cards that we’ve been dealt in this world and we give up. We lose. Instead of trying to do something about all of this bullshit, we accept it.
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| I’m hesitant to post photographs from what we saw today because of everything in the media today. |
“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.” – Dennis Lehane
