Today I joined an event, kinda like a talkshow about literature.
There was a part when the speaker said that one of the advantage of reading a fiction literature is that it could increasing our empathy, especially when we faced some kind of conflicts.
Some part of myself agreed on that statement, but some part was wondering what if those empathy made us... colorblind?
What if when we tried to understand all of the point of views, but then.. the black and white turned into gray? Well, that is not what I want to talk about though...
After the event, I scrolled in social media, and I found someone writing about her thoughts about how man and woman's relationship cannot be like this or that because it could cause abuse, or something like that on Twitter.
On social medias, people can be easily sharing their thoughts and experience as they wish -just like me through this blog. Thus made us the users can see the world without even have to try it.
I do realize that being one of those active users need a special skill to process all the information on social media, so that users can wisely use the information. But, not everyone has that skill. I do not even know if I had the right one.
Sometimes, all I can feel when I read that kind of post was... scared. It was stressful not gonna lie.
The world that they shown on social medias were a f-up world that 'hope' seems vague.
"If we do this, it could turn like this", "do not do this if you do not want this to happen", those words seems and sounds scary. Why they were sharing a one-answer solution for a problem? Neglecting the possibility to use any other way, or at least can they just end it with a 'hopeful' statement?
Social media let me know that the world is scary without even know it myself. Sometimes I kind of grateful that it means that I live in a pretty nice environment.. but sometimes I feel like living under a rock, but again I do not want to go outside the rock because I already know that the world is scary even without me knowing it myself.
Maybe it's just me being a coward.