I have been in a lot of distress lately… so I shall write.

Humanity. God’s greatest gift to human is other humans… God’s greatest gift to you is your mother and father, friends, your best friend, the person you are having a relationship with, your future children, your future spouse, your employers, the poor who you seek to serve, the people who will give you a reason to wake up, the people who will make it possible for you to love. There will be people who will be the reason why you hope, people who will be the reason why you have faith. There will be people who you will hate, and people who you will care for. There will be people who you will love. Humanity is God’s greatest gift to humans. Because other humans enable you to experience God, that is, other humans enable you to experience Love. For, what, in that complexity that we call human, which is also simple, is not lovable? How can you not love that imperfection, especially if you cannot help but feel in the depth of each and every person an undeniable stamp of the Perfect.. in that finite being, you cannot help but feel an undeniable fingerprint of the Infinite creator… humanity, other humans, is what makes this world go round, the reason for existence, the reason why people have worked, why people have studied the sciences, or prayed, or built buildings, invented, progressed, organized, reorganized, civilized… humanity is the reason to love, humanity, and other humans, is God Himself, inside each and every one of them. Love.

And Indifference… indifference, is the devil himself, Evil itself. Indifference is the willful denial of an-other person’s humanity, another person’s existence. They say:

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
~ Elie Wiesel

And so, if one were to treat an-other person with indifference, to treat the other person with such evil, such utter contempt, must be with proper reason, and I doubt that a proper reason for such evil exists. And if a person thinks he or she has found proper reason for going at great lengths to be utterly indifferent on me, I am sorry, but I will not go down so low as to that evil of treating you with indifference as well. I will treat you with hate, with as much hate as I can, because of the evil with which you are inflicting upon me. But at least in hate, there is still the element of love, the element that I only hate you because I recognize your existence, your humanity, the God in you, and that I hate you only because I care for you and I pray for you and I pray that the God in you, the God of forgiveness, of understanding, of love, the God that is selfless, that is to say, with great emphasis, not selfish, the God that does not try to inflict such evil on another living, existing, imperfect, yet struggling, human, prevails over the Devil that is indifference.

We are all imperfect, all incomplete, all with limitations, all who have done faults and are capable of committing much more fault and much more evil. But indifference… indifference, which is giving up hope on the person, indifference, which is the denial of the gift of forgiveness, indifference, which is the direct opposite of Jesus Christ, that person full of love, the direct opposite of Jesus Christ’s teachings, which is love, which is forgiving not seven times, but seventy times seven, who taught to turn the other cheek when slapped, who taught to give one’s jacket as well if one takes his shirt… Jesus Christ, whose eyes full of love, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, I pray to You… Jesus Christ, my Lord… to prevent us from committing such evil, such as indifference.

I pray we may not commit such evil on another human. So that we may indeed act as God’s greatest gift - that is to say, so that we can act like Humans.