Have We Acquiesced Violence???

Digging at Our Current Psychology

Hello Dear Friends,

Today I would I like to discuss a very sensitive matter, which is crucial for our understanding of violence. Well, I am sure we all are aware what this word stands for; an infliction of atrocities of any kind.

**If I quote a lexical definition- **

‘ Behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something’

If violence is a crime; isn’t accepting it is an even bigger crime. So are we becoming criminals??

This is a pressing question, which stems from our current psychology. We all witness every day a lot of violence and pain around us. We might not be the victims of it, but we are the spectators. Let's take for example in daily new there are hundreds of stories, which dig into infliction of atrocities be it on women, children, animals, refugees or nature. What is your reaction to watching them???

If I run through my emotions; I observe a pattern in which emotions play for being a spectator.

Shock:- Firstly the heinous crimes shock us, gives us a chill. For a moment they seem so beyond our imagination that believing such an occurrence is tough.

Trauma:- then comes the part where one is being disturbed by such a crime; it traumatizes one mentally and one can feel deep pain and agony.

Empathy:-following this would be a sense of pain which we feel when we empathize.

Aggression:- empathy will lead to aggression and agitation with a detailed introspection about the world around us. Such an introspection where humanity seems to be so doomed.

Helplessness:- the visual reality creates a sense of helpless where being within our four walls your comfort zone, one would not be able to do much. Though there is a strong will to bring change; the path seems full of roadblocks to climb; the inability of a single individual takes the course.

Forgetfulness:- This helpless will lead to forgetfulness, where even though our spirit is against such violence but we acquiesced to it. Now when we see a similar crime in future our emotions are toned and the pain and agony have calmed. We cajoled ourselves to the reality of frequent happenings and the nerve-racking emotion has deteriorated.

Friends take for example crime like rape, refugee exploitation, genocide has become common news rather than nerve-racking happening. They are recurrent crimes. When we saw the plight of Syrian refugees our agitation for the cause was stronger than what we have for Rohingya. Maybe the Nirbhaya rape case made us leave our comfort zone and move on roads to agitate for the cause but several similar heinous rape cases succeeding that we witnessed but acquiesced to them.

Isn't it we are becoming used to a world with more violence and less compassion? Is it really acquiescence or our helplessness??

Would like to seek your opinion on this topic?

We need to become more compassionate and work for the cause of peace so that we truly hold a human society. May my pen act as a weapon for the cause of peace. Let's not accept violence in any form be it physical, mental, visual or psychological.

Let's hold onto principles of Mahatma Gandhi:- Truth, Non-voilnce (ahimsa) and Brotherhood.

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