Brussels was a tragedy. You know it, I know it, and the whole world knows it. What comes with violence ends with hate and contempt, and this was no different. In a world were we are under threat and many people could lose their lives everyday, we still manage to focus our attention on the small irrelevant things that annoy us, rather than the overall picture. People died. People are still dying, That’s what is actually happening right now, every single day, in Syria, in Afghanistan all over the world. For crying out loud one of you could be dying as I’m writing this. And yet, despite the horrors of our world we, instead of uniting against fear, choose to criticise the common person for posting a photo or tweeting a quote saying “#prayforbrussels” because they are too naïve to realise that this is happening all over the world  and not just in Belgium.

Earlier this week I tweeted a whole tirade on why this is the reason we are losing a devastating war against an unpredictable enemy. It is because we are waging a stupid insignificant battle amongst ourselves. We refuse to live in the real world and instead pretend we do by making other people feel like the dumbest beings on the planet. In a world were 500 000 die in bombings in one country and 50 die in another, we forget that these were situations were lives were lost and instead demean people for trying to show some sort of consideration. In the midst of all of this mess comes the one question that I want to ask anyone who thinks they know anything about our war on terror, anyone who criticises others for not showing compassion for Syria and Afghanistan when they get attacked. I ask you this, when did you ever show you cared? When did you ever pray for the hundreds of lives lost in those countries? When the fuck did you ever look at footage of cities now completely destroyed and then surrounded by complete and utter silence as a drone flew through surveying the wreckage of what used to be peoples homes and actually stop to think that whatever little problems you face in your day to day lives is insignificant compared to the tragedy that has befallen anyone who has had to endure even a minute of that.

In a world were social media is our greatest ally in uniting people; it has also become a tool for the masses to demean and condescendingly act superior to hundreds of other people. Now the fact remains that the ignorance is real, our naivety is real, but isn’t it our job to educate people in the happenings of the real world? Isn’t it our responsibility to make sure that the next generation or even the people around us know that Brussels were not the only victims of devastation? The media can only do so much, after all they are in all sense of the word a business and therefore don’t show as much compassion as one might hope. But making people feel bad for watching anything they put out is never the answer. Educate, Inspire and achieve, don’t leave behind the rest of the world because you’re “better”, take them with you, show them that they can make a difference and stand up to the evil of our reality.

Because people die everyday, and sometimes there is nothing we can physically do about it, but dividing ourselves based on ego does not fix anything, it makes the problem worse. Its time we realised that the problem isn’t the naïve, but those who let them stay that way.