REALITY OF LIFE THAT MAKES YOU QUESTION YOUR OWN SANITY

WATCHING television and reading history books today make me question my own sanity. On television I watch news upon news about refugee crisis. Most of the refugees are coming from middle-eastern countries such as Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and etc who face so much threat in their own countries that force them to seek for a safer place. It just happens that Europe is the safest place by far that fits their definition of safe. The crisis occurred due to the fact that most of European countries reject their existence. As a result, they are made to run like animals who do not deserve any help. Some overtly do it, others pretend want to help but behind the scene they try their best not to let them in too much. One of the reasons that come to the surface was they are afraid that "this tsunami of refugees will islamise the continent."

History books that I read happen to have tight relationship with the era where 'colonization' has its fame. The history books I read proudly show how great Europeans were; it could be seen through their ability to colonize and exploit all the other four continents: America, Africa, Asia and Australia. The way histories told were very proud, as if colonizing and exploiting those continents were fine and totally normal. Begging for help, however, is seen for something unacceptable. Even though if we could try see deeper those refugees just desperately want some help. And if Europeans were willing to open up their hearts to help, it actually would not be a big favor at all. We could even see it as giving back what they had taken in the past. It is so funny how universe works. No matter how inhuman you took others' possessions away, universe will always try to give it back through unexpected way. That of course was not the reason why refugees flooding Europe. They do that naturally because they have too. Otherwise they will have to compromise other possibility, DEATH.

On other channel, I came across a news about organizations that claims themselves as the ones who maintain peace in the world, or that is what they were built for from the first place. And one of the sentence I needed to quote from the spoke person of that organization is "we have to see the world as a no border place. Especially when it comes to the idea of helping others who need help." Here we are witnessing the reality show where hundreds and thousands people beg for help but we raise our hands up saying "NO! THANK YOU"