Showering You All With Flowers

Can you imagine a world without empathy or wisdom? Without common sense or the human conscience?

Without love or compassion?

Or without Truth and her balance?

Then spread the leaves of love. Fill the trees with doves.

How much longer will it take for all of humanity to see -- that there is much more for us to gain through love than hate?

Apathy is the door to ignorance. Empathy is the door to wisdom. Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you. These are the people we need to fill our world. Those who move with compassion, who rush to help those in need, who are selfless, and and can see how everything and everyone is connected. When others bleed, they grieve. This is how most animals in the jungles are too.

When gorillas smell danger, they run around and call out to the rest of the primates in the jungle to warn them something evil is coming. And when one of their own dies, they mourn for days while beating themselves up in sadness for failing to save that gorilla, even if the cause of death was natural. And when one colony is mourning, their chilling echoes migrate to other colonies — and those neighbors, even if they are territorial rivals, will also grieve with them. When faced with a common danger, rivals turn into allies. And when faced with death, the loss of just one gorilla becomes the loss of the entire jungle.

Are gorillas better than us, or are we better than 'them savages'? One thing I know for sure is this, they may not be human and carry a smartphone, but they are definitely more humane.


Suzy Kassem