I don't want to lose my faith in humanity

Hello there!

so today this post was originally going to be a happy post because I got a lot done today in terms of getting things prepared to pack and move out, and I have been laughing all day with my mum about silly things and it has just been a day where even though things aren't going extremely to plan and there are a lot of things to be negative about we weren't and just got on with it with a smile on our faces. However my mood was changed at ten o'clock this evening as I watched the news like I do every other day, and the same thing happens I get annoyed. See I am one of those people who has strong opinions and gets passionate and angry about something, but I am too scared to say anything because I also consider myself to be a nice human being so I am scared to offend anyone because I don't know everything I don't have all the facts lined up on a sheet of paper and have made the right calculations to get to my opinion. I am just another human being living on this earth that most of the time doesn't like the way we treat each other.

So before I go off on my rant I just want anyone to read this to be aware of that, I am just me, I don't know statistics, or know every single fact that there is to know, all I know is what I have seen,heard read and how I feel about it.  I have gotten anon hate on Tumblr before because I posted support for LGBTQ community, because I am a heterosexual it seemed that I could not sincerely support a cause that is close to me. So this makes me scared to voice my opinions, or feelings on big topics because I don't want to offend anyone, in actual fact I am trying to do the opposite I am trying to convince people that there are some decent humans left in the world. So anyway after that disclaimer I am still a little reluctant to write this but I am really disappointed in the world, and this blog is about me trying to figure myself out and be honest about how I am feeling, so here goes.

The headline of the news, as it's been for the last couple of weeks is the 'Syrian Refugee Crisis', there are millions of people trying to flee a conflict that has been going on for four years, where people have lost their homes, there sense of security and at worst their lives. The first thing I which annoyed me about the new I watched tonight (bearing in mind I live in the UK) is that on several occasions the broadcasters referred it to the refugees as migrants, and they are two separate things- A refugee is someone who has no other choice but to flee their home country, because of lets say a devastating conflict, a migrant chooses to leave their country to maybe find more opportunities in another country. This annoys me because the news gets away with calling the refugees migrants because most of the refugees have not been given refugee status, and there are a small percentage of migrants who are also travelling on boats to Europe, but the majority ARE refugees and have no choice but to escape their country, because a chance at a better life is better than staying in a midst of a devastating war. 

So when the news says migrants are coming over to the UK, this in my opinion gives the wrong impression, we are more inclined to sympathise with the phrasing of refugee than we are to migrants, because unfortunately I believe the UK and Europe are still being very xenophobic, so you hear the word migrant and our xenophobic nation panics, oh no we can't have more of them over here we need to sort our own people out first before we help others. This just makes me feel ill and makes me sad to be British, because we are all human, and if the tables were turned we would expect help, and equal, fair treatment. Which we aren't giving to these refugee families. We are actually making it ten times harder for them to have any quality of life by placing more restrictions by saying we have to be sure that they are refugees and not migrants trying to illegally enter the country, because you know when you are forced to leave your country because your home is destroyed you really have the time to get the right documentation in order. So this is why the refugees are using risky ways of travelling just for the hope that someone will help, but we don't we throw another bit of red tape at them and they have to move on, no human deserves to be treated like that. There is no excuse. 

As I said above I don't know every single statistic of the situation, I have my own opinion based on what I have seen an read, but to me we as a nation, and extending our duty of care to the whole of human race, not just who we deem 'our own' because there is no our own, we are human that is it. 

I am sorry that this post was not the happy, positive post I wanted it to be, but I am so saddened and disappointed in the world, because I want to have faith in us as a species but the truth is I don't because in today's world it seems like we just keep on making up more and more rules and barriers to stop us uniting, and frankly that scares me. Equality is accepting people because they are different, not discriminating or coming up with excuses to why we say or treat someone in a certain way. 

I have a very simple philosophy and I have said it before, I want to be happy and make sure those around me are happy too. I also just want to be nice, yes I am sarcastic and I rant and moan, but the truth is I just try to be a nice human being, which I think people forget to be, because they have an agenda, or they want to prove something, but just try and be nice, it sometimes just frustrates me so much because I don't see why it is so difficult to just be nice! 

Anyway I am sorry that this was a ranty, and a heavy topic of discussion but I just needed to voice it. The future sometimes seems so bright and full of opportunity, and then other times it seems so dim and scary. I just want to remain hopeful, but as I watch the news daily it is hard to see the silver lining. But my thoughts are with those suffering across the world, I just wish I could do more to help.
I don't want to lose faith in humanity, I want others to have more faith and speak up, you are allowed to disagree with things and have an opinion, just don't use it as a tool to hate someone.


Till tomorrow.