Isn’t It Time to Reclaim Our Humanity?

We have become entirely numb in the face of injustice. We are trapped in such inertia that we struggle to escape, desperately clinging to stagnation. Our minds, turned into the hell of sameness, extinguish the idea of revolution before it even takes shape. Why have we grown so passive? Why do we appear so utterly inept as a society? Why, having once soared to the skies, do we now fear the unity of the ants beneath the earth? Our sense of wholeness has been reduced to mere individuality, making it harder than ever to achieve anything together. We have regressed from a generation that stood tall in defiance to a hunched-over macaque monkey.

Humankind is a social creature, yet this status has now been reduced to a herd of amoebas sipping coffee in cafés. Grand words are spoken, only to be forgotten within a minute. After all we once achieved through unity, we have been lulled to sleep by the flickering glow of foolish little phones. And so, in the silence of the night, we awaken to regret, dreaming of the things we will do the next day—only to become sleepwalkers, drifting aimlessly through the daylight. We choose sleep to escape our thoughts. Sleeping has become our new normal; we yawn through the day, and our happiest moments are now those of utter uselessness.

When did we start bowing to authority’s decisions without question? When did we shrink so much as human beings? Since when do we tremble at the thought of speaking a single word? Since when did we begin hoarding the truth, keeping it to ourselves? Since when have we lived in perpetual humiliation? Perhaps we have always been cowards; perhaps our knees buckle because we have always been willing to kneel; perhaps our hunchbacks are the result of our habit of submission.

Isn’t it time to put an end to this?.. Isn’t it time to lift our bowed heads once more?.. Isn’t it time to raise our voices, once silenced by fear?.. Isn’t it time to reclaim our humanity?..