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Empathy, resilience and the festive season
Geopolitical, economic and societal challenges and disasters of all kinds once again punctuated 2024, transforming what should be a harmonious and happy life desired by and for most people into difficult, demanding and even terrible moments. Certain despots and dictators have once again darkened the skies in many countries when their populations most certainly did not want them to. This lack of empathy on the part of some of the world’s top leaders, who are condemning the vast majority of the world’s people to survival or to wandering in nauseating and terrible unknowns, is not acceptable, even if we haven’t moved a single step forward when we said that, unfortunately… The major aid bodies and organisations are being flouted, and the minimum of respect for others no longer seems to exist, as the life of a human being no longer seems to count for anything. Added to this are the natural disasters that are indicative of the climate disruption we have caused. Is it still reasonable to hope for a little empathy and resilience, at least during the festive season? To give up these festive moments, which are certainly sometimes commercial, would be to capitulate to the barbarism of a minority of dangerous egomaniacs.