Dear Humankind!

Sep 24, 20134 min read

Deviation Actions

Published: Sep 24, 2013

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Just wanted to let you know that wherever I go I feel that whatever is that you seem to love you destroy. This hurts me deeply. Even though I'm a part of you and I supposed to feel part of the "family" and I suppose to be proud, I'm not. I'm from the South-East Hungary. My parents are living here in the village or a lovely little house within the forest at the lake. I LOVE coming here! Do you know why? Because it is peaceful, it is quiet, it is majestic, humble, wild, and it smells good. And yet I'm sad. I'm sad and disappointed because every single time I'm coming here to respectfully enjoy this heavenly peace I find less and less of this place here. It is destroyed, it is cut out and taken away from here. Not even five years ago this place was full of mistery, nature and beauty. And while it is still beautiful here there are huge growing empty spaces now, more roads, more veichles, more hunter towers, more people. And while you try to repopulate these great many of empty places with small trees you plant so when they grow up you can cut them again, I don't suppose that any of those animals or any of the creatures were living within these woods appreciate any of your playing around with their living spaces.

How many times -I ask you- how many times do you need to learn that ANYTHING you do has consequences. Consequences rarely turn out to be beneficial for you. Here where I'm from you redirected and regulated the river.This place was full of lakes and swamps.You wanted to walk around free, crop more, have more. And what now? You fall victim of the fourth very hot and dry summer and you don't know how to get the water to your crop and it is destroyed. Damaged. No food, no trade. You want more, you want easy, you are too many with no respect for your surroundings.
Now you want tourist areas and weekend houses in forests. Because you like the beauty and the peace of it. And what do you do instead of enjoying it as it is? You try to change it. You alter it. You hurt it -and the most outrageous of all- you try to bring the comfort of the city into the wild! You play loud music, litter, fish and hunt like a maniac. Like a child who gets a kitten from their parents and finds it so unbarebly cute that they constantly hugging it and stroking it till they hug and stroke the poor creature to death. Then they turn sad and move on for something else to like.

I'm helpless because I'm from here and I don't want to find another place to love. There is no other place for me. There is different beauty on this planet. All beautiful, but different. Please mankind if a beautiful bird lands on your shoulder do not try to capture it! You are not a child anymore, are you? Just let it fly! Enjoy it's beauty from the distance, as it was created, AS IT IS! I'm not even saying - what so many others do - that we are responsible for our world. Because hearing the expression one can instantly assume that we stand above it all. We do not stand above it. We are not responsible for it. WE ARE PART OF IT! If we destroy it we destroy ourselves! If we disregard this, if we are not paying attention we are going to die! We need to see that if we pour water onto the ground the planet will drink it. And if we pur poison onto the ground the planet will drink it just as much with the same thurst. But that will make US and OUR CHILDREN suffer! More than anything.

Dear Humankind! Please understand that you need to let go of your concepts of control, rule, and exploit. We need to stop whistling like nothing is happening around us, stop keep uncontrolably multiplying, and pretend that we do not hear the screams of dying. Why are we enemies of this world when we can be friends?

I still believe in you Humankind. I still do and I love you. But if you refuse to find your place within this system, then it is not the world that's going to die, We are. Please I beg you Humankind don't let that happen!