My heart breaks when we seem not to care
about what happens immediately after a tragedy. We have a knack for wanting to
be the first to ‘break’ the news, the drive erodes our sensibilities and we
post words, photos or videos we regret later on. If we had our heads screwed on
properly, and our faculties are in good working order, we will empathize with
the families of victims and allow the appropriate authorities to break the
gut-wrenching news of the loss of their loved ones.
We need to exercise restraint when we are
faced with very sensitive information and consider the lives that would be
potentially altered drastically as a result of what you know. Also, it is
highly insensitive, grossly irresponsible and reeks of utter disregard for the
feelings of the affected families, when we keep posting and reposting gory
photos of mangled, dismembered and charred human remains on social media
outlets after the tragic events have occurred.
Let the dead rest and circulating such
traumatic images will not do anything to alleviate the pain and suffering of
the affected families or prevent future occurrences. We have all become
information junkies, inadvertently throwing caution to the wind before
‘breaking’ the next big story and in the process; we lose ourselves, our sense
of human feeling and compassion.
We can tell ourselves that we are
informing people and are doing what is right, just and true or even our jobs,
but there is that deep-seated subconscious feeling to be the first, the one
with the exclusive. If we don’t decide ahead of time, what we’re going to do
when we have access to highly sensitive and often-traumatic information, we
will continue to blurt them out as we have been doing beforehand.
I know for certain, that these disasters
will not abate, they will keep coming, just take a look at the news filtering
in from all over the green globe, and you will see reason and by inference,
there are no sacred cows, as it is happening in third world nations, its
hitting the first and second with equal and sometimes greater ferocity. We see
earthquakes, floods, typhoons, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and the
ever-present nuclear threat, bio-weapons and the like.
The world seems to be breaking at the
seams, but don’t be overwhelmed, the end is near. This is not the end; it’s
only the beginning! He that reads let him understand.
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