Realization

It’s painful when you feel like you are meant to be doing something more – something meaningful, but yet you are not.

Today, I watched the movie, ‘The hate you give’ and I broke. The issue of standing up for others and speaking up for those who don’t have a social voice has always been something that was close to my heart and this movie reawoke that feeling.

I became so frustrated as I watched the movie, watching her stand up for her friend because I wondered what the hell am I doing to make things better, not just in terms of addressing racism, but in my own country, community or school, ‘what am I doing?’

For a long time, I always attributed me helping people to law, me standing in for what’s right to law. So watching this movie just after I decided to change my course yo fashion broke me… I felt selfish and stupid, like all the self-work I had been doing until now didn’t matter. I was questioning my place in this world and what I’ve done to help and make it better…

If didn’t make sense in my head. But one thing I just realized is that in the movie, the girl, Starr, wasn’t a lawyer. She wasn’t even a full adult yet, but that never stopped her from making a difference. That didn’t stop her for standing up for what is right…

Helping others, standing up for the truth, standing up for equality, standing up and doing what is right doesn’t have any requirement or criteria… It is something you do because you know what is right and you chose to stand by it.

It is not by age, certificate or wealth. It is by you, as a human and as a citizen of this world and this universe as a whole and it’s about time I realize that. It’s about time we realize that.