Solidarity is light

Around us, selfish and indifferent individuals are increasing day by day. There was a time when there were people who would discuss social issues for hours, ponder how to solve the public's problems, and read thousands of books for this purpose.

Now, we see with heavy hearts that they are increasingly being replaced by individuals who only think of their own interests and remain indifferent to the suffering of others or society.

Let alone remaining indifferent to the negative events occurring in society, the number of people who ignore even the painful cries of their closest friends is growing every day.

The result of being so insensitive is that when you encounter similar problems and pains, you find no one by your side to support you, partly due to the atmosphere created by this very attitude.

Naturally, seeing this picture, the void within a person grows. Their heart grows cold. Yet, our lives, wounded by injustice, pain, loneliness, and ruthlessness, can only be healed by the solidarity, love, and compassion of people.

Those who know, know; nothing can replace the happiness triggered by the enthusiasm created in an individual's soul when struggling alongside other people for a universal ideal such as peace, freedom, or the protection of nature.

No matter how much we say, “Let the snake that doesn't touch me live for a thousand years” Even if we remain indifferent to the cruelty inflicted upon nature and living beings, or to the troubles of others, these problems and sorrows will, whether we like it or not, eventually find us one day and turn our lives into a living hell.

War and environmental pollution are the best examples of this situation.   

It is necessary to remember that the desire to always take, and the refusal to share even a piece of plain bread with an 'unfortunate' friend sitting in the back row, will isolate and corrupt a person, and that this loneliness will one day produce enough unhappiness to suffocate them.

Furthermore, living a life that leaves a mark on the earth brings happiness to a person. The blossoming of that magical flower of love, known as the joy of living, is possible only by being a balm to another's wound when necessary. Such a life also leaves indelible marks in the mind of history.

If we do not show solidarity in the face of pain, injustice, lack of conscience, and unfairness, society will eventually consume itself, and those 'sublime' individual interests of ours will no longer have any meaning in concrete life.

People without ideals and social goals suffocate by constantly thinking only of themselves, and life turns into a nightmare. The only way to overcome this is to touch the lives of other living beings in need and contribute to the resolution of society's problems.

Being insensitive to other living beings and the problems of nature is desolation; it is nothingness.

In short, happiness for one is, at best, a scandal.