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Betrayed by Stangers

 

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Seeing the title, you might wonder how it is a betrayal if it comes from a stranger. Well, what is betrayal? To me when someone you trust fails you miserably, I call it betrayal. To trust someone, you have to know them well. So normally betrayal can’t come from strangers. I will try to explain my case.


You get betrayed by family, by friends. Most of all, you betray yourself. But on all these occasions, it’s someone you know that betrays you. But I think betrayal is a fundamental human attribute and it extends to not just the closest circle. Betrayal is universal, because trust is universal.


I don’t believe in the concept of God. We all have our own beliefs - some trust Jesus, some trust Allah, some trust Sivan. Me? I trust people. Now, this may sound incredibly cringe, but that’s the truth.  I choose to trust us. I choose to trust us in all our flaws and shortcomings, over perfect and all powerful Gods. 


But sometimes, I fear my trust is misplaced. 


Whenever I see people act out of their best character, when they murder, for example, I feel awful. Not just because of the victim, but because of the murderer too. To be honest the murderer upsets me more than the victim does. That random murderer is the person I chose to trust over a God. Every time I read about someone like a murderer or a child abuser, my trust in humanity fades away a little bit. I feel betrayed by that random unknown person.


For example, the PUBg Madan case recently. That case compelled me to write this. I don’t know how many of you know about this issue or watched the video where he told his viewers about the ninth grade girl he used to date when he was 25 years old. He was objectifying that girl. The thing that shocked me the most was the reaction of his fans - they were laughing. I have never felt such anger as I did when I saw that. How does this happen? Why do people do this? Why does someone harm someone else? Why do they kill?


Nowadays, these are the questions in my head and to be honest, I don’t have a good answer to any of those questions. I never had intentions of hurting anyone, never had intentions of murdering someone because somehow, in my head I know that’s wrong. Normal people know that’s wrong, so why does it keep happening? What is wrong with those people? They are not mentally affected, at least not everyone. They just do this, and I have no explanation why. Many minds greater than mine have failed to answer this question.





This is why I feel betrayed by unknown people. Everyone who does a bad thing breaks the trust I have on humans. I still believe in us, but I am slowly losing the trust in people, and “people” includes me. All I can do is hope we will get better overtime. I am not telling anyone to be a saint, I am asking us to be human (The last time a dude came out in public and asked people to be nice to each other was 2000 years ago, and he got nailed to a cross shortly after, so I am treading on thin ice here). Is it unreasonable to expect a human to be a human? I don’t think so.


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Hariesh (18 June, 2021)

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  1. UnknownJune 18, 2021 at 11:31 PM

    Great ..,,,,,well We all live in illusion, you should improve perception otherwise your paradigm will ruin your life

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