One Second of Reality

Ibtisam Zahra
Journal Kita
2 min readMay 25, 2024

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Does the world try to make us narcissistic and care for nobody but ourselves?

The narration where our own lives are already hard so that no one has the time to see outside, to check the neighbours, to take a look at the world, was it always the purpose?

I blame the capitalists, honestly. They control the economy while softly resetting our brains to be their tools for getting much more power.

We can see it now because of Gaza, Palestine. When we think the world has awakened because we care so much about humanity, but actually at the same time we weren’t — because we did nothing — and now it has been clear that we were all always asleep! We let those who sit on the throne run their businesses smoothly while we focused on how to stay alive and comfortable in this sickening world. We get too busy to keep on living while they set it up perfectly to make us feel that way.

They make us have infinite expectations of materialistic freedom in order to make us blind about what happened in this world.

We keep looking forward, forgetting around us.

We become less and less human.

Scrolling through plenty of pictures and moving images. The blood, the cries, and the horror of it all — our eyes recorded it clearly while our hearts were still.

Our minds sniff something fishy, yet our hearts refuse to answer the ring.

“What bombs? Oh, that might just be another fuss about poor matter.”

When something is worth hearing if only it is related to the fall of honour of others,

“What scandal? I know that something was up when she once got caught with the guy last week with the exact same dress and coat!”

There is no mirror big enough to let them see what a huge amount of true dishonour they always hold.

There is no longer hope when people are seen with the junk in their hands, swallowing it with a smile because it is a “happy meal.”

There is no future ahead when those who always have the eyes watching refuse to say a word because suddenly it means nothing.

Oh, dear world, what has been done that we lost track this far?

Were you not created for us to rule, yet we became more and more senseless, only causing you the stress?

The little angels are sent straight into heaven right after they feel the foul of this world; it only takes one second of reality, and they cry pity for us up there.

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