I usually do not post here in English but right now I feel like that this is something that more people should understand than just my German friends.
The last days have been pretty shocking and confusing to all of us and it is pretty hard to understand. When the attacks happened I was in the French Alps, which was kind of far away from reality, and therefore it is even harder for me to get what happened.
All I know is that the latest developments scare me. On one hand, it clearly scares me that our belief system which entails the free right to speak and again the Jewish community were attacked. What happened there was wrong and horrible and fucked up in so many ways that they cannot be expressed. Violence should never be the answer for expressing hurt feelings. It is the most stupid and cruel way to react to situations.
On the other hand, I am scared of what that will do about the attitude about Islam. As a German person, I am faced with this problem more than ever in my life so far, because some idiots in Germany take the meaning of #firstworldproblems to a whole other level by thinking that defending Germany from the bad islamic and foreign influences is the solution to all their problems - like not having enough money to go to their next vacation on Mallorca or to drink more beer. What happened last week is yet again another argument of those people to say that the Islam is something that "we" should be scared of, that it is something bad.
In many ways, this second fear is even bigger than the first one. I moan the losses of those people who died for no reason and now are forever taken out of the lives of their loved ones. However, the feeling that "we" now react just as stupidly is very unresting. Things need to change, we need to learn to understand one another, to understand that something that one person finds funny, might hurt another person but also vice versa: that someone that might hurt you deep in your heart was not meaning to do so. "We" need to stop to believe solely what the media tells us but reinterpret what is happening in the middle east, why people might become this way. Looking behind the facades of all this, it becomes very obvious why people become that extreme that they think killing is the only way.
I can say that I have been truly blessed by these last few months in France with people from many different cultures. Things like what I have been able to experience so far need to happen more, because they prove to me that despite that you might not like a person, that you do not share the same beliefs, that you cannot laugh about the same things, we still all have that one thing in common despite being human: we pursue our happiness.
I found for myself that on this journey it is pretty helpful to find out about other people's reality. It has helped me to figure out some stuff, to readjust my thinking and spread more love.
What I am trying to say here is, that in these days, it becomes even more important to go up to each other with a smile and to ask about each other's reality, how the persons next to you perceives things, how they grew up. You do not have to like every person and you do not have to like their beliefs but you should try to talk to them and be open for discussion. A discussion might not lead to a solution in the first place but it is a way to reach a person and to make them think. To me, this is the only way to live with each other in a way that noone needs to be hurt and it is something we can all do despite of what our governments do (because in reality we do know that they are all fucking bullshitting us).
These things that I've wrote here are just me trying to understand this and to react to this feeling of not being able to do anything about it but I hope that they just might reach some people who do understand where I am coming from with this.
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