BRING BACK THE HUMAN RACE

Every time Death rears its ugly head and another human life is lost, mankind tends to react differently. We mourn, justify, get angry, cheer on and more often than not, are never bothered. The cycle is so numb it’s hard to trace the Human bond when it doesn’t affect us directly.

When taking of human life becomes the ‘norm’ then humanity ceases to exist. Human life is and should be worth much more. It shouldn’t be that simple to end lives or witness Loss of lives and feel so little about it.

Kenya as a Nation has witnessed a worrying spate of loss of life though Terror, post-election violence, Inter clan fighting, traffic accidents, Collapse of buildings, extra judicial killings, famine, disease you name it. So much so the Number of lives lost has become just that, Numbers.

Surprisingly a positive trait is to blame for the numbness that hovers over our Nation like a dark cloud, Resilience. We are such resilient people we get up from any situation and keep on living one day at a time like nothing happened. No questions asked, No drive to push to see things change, No hurt enough to remember when it all happens again, Nothing, just a mare collective shrug ‘ni sawa tu’ .

That needs to change and it will only happen when we start valuing human life. Life should be more than just our Kin, tribesmen, friends, neighbors, candidate of choice, religious followers, social class etc. and gravitate towards any Human being.  

Worrying about a total strangers well-being shouldn’t be such a struggle, it should be the starting point in repairing the Humanity fabric *sic*. Slowly by slowly we will start becoming a human race again, our brother’s keepers. We will cease being strangers, harboring hate between us, hurting one another and all the negativity.

Negative traits and actions can only thrive where Positive traits and actions haven’t seized the moment.

As we mourn as a Nation, Ask questions and Hold each others hands in Unity may the 147 lives lost in the Garissa Terrorist Attack at the very least be the Inspiration in our effort to bring back Humanity.

@jamrockjammie