empathy It's disgusting how the media wants us to remember the massacre in Raba'a I don't understand how I keep hearing this argument that dead children had it coming I can't understand I'm trying to I want to be able to empathize and talk beautiful things today: --the tweets from people in Gaza to people in Ferguson (which is under a no fly zone, freakin MISSOURI) --what my friend wrote about Syrian refugees fleeing to Iraq and vice versa. She said she couldn't imagine what must feel like hell on earth, let alone the distinct despair of surviving only to see hell recur --articles in the Guardian about prisoners of conscience in Egypt --comedians being sane and active about politics --my friend retracting his position on clinical depression and suicide, it was really difficult for him. I think I want to erase any thought in my head that starts with "I don't feel sorry for..." |