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Behind The Morbid Side

Last week,  when I opened my Facebook account plenty of my friends complained about a picture that have been reverberated around the world. As I do not pay any attention to laments on social media, I completely ignored this situation at first sight. Surprisingly for me, in less than ten minutes everyone was sharing  a shocking picture of a drowned Syrian boy. This three-year-old boy was found on a beach on The Turkey´s town of Bodrum. Within this distressing picture, people made comments about this current situation. Despite the fact that I respect other people´s beliefs, I am not that kind of person who approve sharing pictures tinged with violence or human suffering. By sharing those sort of things, community does not help the other part involved. Instead, they feed people´s morbid side in a considerably way. That is why whenever I see publications showing suffering or any kind of violence, I try to hide them from my sight. This attitude, most of the time, has driven me to be highly criticised by my friends because they believe I am ignoring important issues. On my defense I should state that it is not about ignoring current events. On the contrary, I am a very sensitive person who is easily impressed.

This is the image that echoed around the world the last weeks:

As the rest of community,  I could not turn a blind eye to this situation and I decided to  search on the net about the toddler who was carried to the shore by the sea. As I am not into political affairs, I only knew that there is a war taking place in Syria since 2011.  However, I did not know what is behind this image and the war. I was unaware of the fact that people on those areas have two options: migration or death. Imagine yourself in that situation. The country you have grown up is involved in a conflict and you do not have any option but moving to another place (as in the case of THIS Kurdish boy called Aylan). He and his family were trying to be safe of the conflicts when the boats capsized and like him, many other people died (among them his 5-year-old brother and his mother). His father, Abdullah, was the only one who survived. An inner anguish overpowers me whenever I think about this man and the families that lost their beloved ones trying to find a peaceful place to live.

Undoubtedely, this image clearly portrays the risks children and families are taking in search of a better life. Not only do they risk their lives but also they are treated badly by neighbouring countries. TV programs portray how cruel human beings tend to be when it is about supporting people in need. Some officers treat them as dogs not as human beings. It is heartbreaking to see how humanity has declined.

Although this image fed the morbid side of specific persons, there are still many other individuals who are keen to give a hand. By sharing this picture, you are allowing migrants being helped by powerful people such as polititians.

This picture has around one million shares on the social media and thanks to that, people are aware of the current problematic. Fortunately, this image has reached every corner of the world and now there are many persons eager to help migrants in different ways such as giving them a place to stay in. This happens behind the morbid side.