We Cannot Afford to Look Away
Coach Che Marville
? CEO & Founder, Wisemindly | Executive Leadership Coach | Keynote Speaker | Podcast Host | Certified Yoga Educator (E-RYT? 500, RCYT?, YACEP?)
It’s hard to process the horror of the Christchurch mosque shootings on March 16 in New Zealand.
I look and look away not knowing where to put the images and faces of the victims.
Today I pray for the ones fighting for their lives and the families left behind. And even though we know who to blame, we suffer knowing that this act of hate has been perpetrated., no less while they were in sacred place praying for a better life.
And while I pray - I feel anguish and wonder where did the human that committed this hate come from?
Who did he come from?
Where did he live?
Who saw him?
Where is his village?
Did he even have one?
While I pray and wonder - I also ask if technology and social media can create invisible nations of hate and arm sociopaths why isn’t technology and social media required to be governed by laws,ethics, training and education?
While I pray, wonder- I ask why do WE look away when we see disconnected people walking among us?
Why do we act like we can’t see people in distress, when the truth is we often can but don’t know how to be with them?
So I pray for our collective healing, I pray that we can speak truthfully to one another. I ask that we do not turn away from one another or the disconnected.
And I question everything about where we are right now and how we are right now for we have created tools that amplify our greatness and our deepest weaknesses.
To pray, to wonder, to question, to speak to one another and to take action so that we can stop the spread of hate and disconnection. The little boy in the picture was three and his name was Mucad Ibrahim.