✍️ By Dr. Jalaaludiin Yusuf Ahmed
From my blog Obsession with Poisoning, 2025
Life becomes less mysterious when we remember our first truth: we were created to live with others not in lofty isolation, nor in a sealed inner chamber. A human being is never complete in solitude; he becomes whole only through his reflection in the faces he meets, in the eyes that listen, and in the hearts that share the burdens of the road.
Humanity is, before all else, social. We are made to be seen, heard, and touched to exist within a web of relationships, not in a cold, enclosed void. When systems and policies are built upon the notion of the isolated individual, when a person is treated as a self-sufficient island, this strips humanity of its essence and reduces the individual to a creature concerned only with appetite and survival.
Beneath the noise of daily life lie deeper layers of human conduct. Every social gesture resonates beyond its surface. Behind fleeting words linger memories that fear the light; behind composed faces lie wounds that have never been soothed. To unravel this behavior is not a theoretical exercise but a necessity in a time when psychological erosion gnaws at souls invisibly.
True humanity lies in perceiving the other’s vulnerability before his strength, his weakness before his achievement. Each face conceals an untold story; each eye carries chapters of pain and hope, awaiting a listener rather than a judge.
The gravest danger today does not stem solely from oppressive power or predatory capital, but from cold systems that reduce human beings to numbers in a database or standardized behaviors in administrative models. Surveillance societies that judge movements, voices, and glances while ignoring inner wounds create people who coexist in the same space yet drag their souls alone through unseen corridors.
As technology advances and emotional warmth recedes, restoring the collective spirit becomes a matter of life and death. A society that fails to ask, “Who is crying in our dark corners? Whose voice has suddenly disappeared?” forfeits the right to be called a society. Cohesion is not a slogan raised on ceremonial occasions but a daily practice approaching the other not as a policeman watching, but as a partner in destiny.
Human beings are social creatures. Any project that reshapes the world around the measure of an isolated individual tampers with the essence of creation and the purpose of existence.
We must choose: either to be a society where individuals support one another, or to slide slowly into a herd of bodies side by side but souls apart, bound only by fear and hunger. Between these two choices, the story of our humanity is written, and the fate of this world we share or fragment will be decided.
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