RE: You can't choose your neighbours
You’ve said it so well. Sometimes it really does feel like conflict is part of human DNA. History just keeps repeating itself; only the costumes change. Power, greed, fear — same story, different century.
Maybe we humans just love drawing lines, borders, ideologies, even emotional ones, and then spend our lives guarding them. Laws and systems do help, but only till someone decides their truth is the only one that matters. Then the cracks start showing all over again.
From a distance, you’re right. This world has always been a restless place, and maybe the best we can do is find our own sense of peace within it. Collective peace feels like a dream that keeps slipping away.
No wonder aliens don’t visit us. Who’d want to deal with this drama anyway?
Do you believe in alien conspiracy theories, by the way? It’s such an interesting topic for me… maybe a whole other kind of conflict to explore! They must be having their own conflicts... No?
I guess there are too many species, each with its own peculiarities, specificities, systems, problems too. Humans are too undeveloped creatures, and the earth is too sad a place to live, for us to imagine that we are the only ones. I think it's been said and shown thousands of times, whether through movies, reports, and documentary videos, but people are too egocentric to "believe it."
I always use this "joke" about aliens when I talk about the misery of life on earth, but it's not so much a joke. (It's a joke, as long as I don't present myself to people as crazy.😂) But somehow my mind can't accept that this is the only one here. It would be very sad. It already is.
It took me a lot to realize it, to somewhat assimilate what is happening on the global stage. I understand why most people don't want to think about it - it's just not rational, we are put here to just live, no matter what is happening around us. And it's almost always scary around us.