I have heard so many times the word “guilt” recently… We started saying it even more during COVID times and now, with the war knocking at our doors, I can’t help feeling that most of us live in a world where that word sits upon us, pressing us and sometimes blinding us and paralyzing us from taking any move.
As you all know – those that have experienced guilt at least once in their lives… – the sense of guilt is filled with negativity and it comes from over-thinking things. We tend to overanalyze things and overheat our brains so much that afterward, we feel overburdened by the things that crossed our minds.
A feeling creeping over me…
Everyone goes on Guilt Trips – sometimes we do it on our own or sometimes the guilt just creeps upon us, even when we are doing regular things in the house…
Say you just woke up and you are fixing yourself your breakfast. You might turn on the TV to hear the news, or you might flick through your phone to see what is new. Escaping from mass media and the news about the War in Ukraine is just not possible. You might have done your level best into helping out the situation: you might have volunteered for the refugees to have a home or helped bring in food and other supplies, you may have raised money from abroad to buy medical equipment and send it over… but it does not feel like it is enough, is it?
What is fair in this life?…
How fair is it to live in a country where there is Peace when just next door the War is raging and taking its toll?… How fair is it that you get to live and a child from Ukraine, from Mariupol, is lying dead on the pavement, his brains splattered, as unfeeling people pass by and go hunt for more? The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) verified a total of 1,964 civilian deaths during Russia’s military attack on Ukraine as of April 13, 2022. Of them, 161 were children.
The photo was taken from: https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2022/03/europe/mariupol-maternity-hospital-attack/index.html
We cried over the years over the atrocities committed in World War 2 but we never learn… We have said that many geniuses were lost in those days. Many children’s lives were lost back then… but what about the children we are losing now? We know only about this 161… but how that figure will grow!
It could be me… It could be you next!
Since the War in Ukraine started more than 10 million people have been displaced. Imagine yourself waking up in the middle of the night, having to leave NOW because your life is in danger. You cannot take much with you… and you must leave all behind. All your life. To go into the unknown.
All of this comes rushing down as we make breakfast, as we brush our teeth, as we go about our daily business… Reminding us we are doing things that people from Ukraine did not so long ago… Guilt… Guilt is a powerful tool. A tool that can help you sink ever further or lift us all up to give a stronger helping hand. What we choose to do next is up to us!
Yours truly,
A mother, a wife, a daughter… a woman like other women
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