HUMAN WARMTH

Positive and Uplifting News

Despite the atrocities happening, people are banding together to help one another in this time of need.

Øivind H. Solheim - the Novel Author
ILLUMINATION
Published in
4 min readMar 8, 2022

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People gather as Italian pianist Davide Mortarelli performs for Ukrainian refugees at the border in Medyka, Poland.

We need to shift focus.

We are not going to shift our focus away from the war in Ukraine, but we need to shift our focus away from the Russian president, the dictator, the aggressor who has unprovoked and brutally attacked a neighboring country.

We watch TV every day, and the horrific events we see happen in a country far away from us. Yet we get sad, we get angry, as we know that people in this country where war is raging would be sad if they saw us on TV, in a country far away, where there is war.

This is how we resemble people in Ukraine, and people in Ukraine resemble us. We are equal in the fact that we care, and we are equal in the fact that we are sorry when we see injustice affecting innocent people:

We are humans.

It is normal and human that we react to brutal actions that lead to meaningless suffering and death.

It is normal to be sad. It is normal to be scared. We are scared because what we are witnessing is so cruel, so inhuman, so unfair.

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Øivind H. Solheim - the Novel Author
ILLUMINATION

New novel: The Man Who Stopped Aging, Amazon Kindle. Love story & intellectual investigation: Can we extend human life to 100 or 110? www.oivindhsolheim.com/