It doesn’t matter unless it affects us personally.
At least in the course of history, that’s how we progress and
improve, through costly (and sometimes deadly) mistakes.
If the company never burnt down, we wouldn’t know exactly why fire regulations are not something to mess around with.
If WW2 never happened, we wouldn’t go to such great lengths to form relationships on paper promising world peace to each other.
If diseases never broke out, we wouldn’t
even give a thought about inventing vaccines.
I guess it makes sense to say that no one is going to fix something that isn’t broken or bad in the first place.
We’re all just
waiting in the darkness we created ourselves, wondering if what we’re doing now
is just as silly as thinking smoking is good for your health back in the 1950s.
So, how long do we have to wait for X amount of people to die/ suffer before change could take place? How many more protest in red underwear and white flags do we need to demand things that’s rightfully ours?
The power is in numbers, be it in deaths or voices.
But I believe one voice is enough to make a difference, or at least spark a discussion. It should never be necessary to lose lives on any matter.
In fact, it shouldn’t even need a riot
or a protest to get ‘lawmakers’ to open their eyes.
This change is going to be a melancholy one, one similar to a time when the world pauses and takes the road travelled before, again.
History repeats itself, but this time it will be quicker and less
painful. Hopefully so.