Peace, please?

While I'm not any more interested in politics than an average person is and I really try to avoid reading too much about social media posts related to politics and I do my best not to post anything under that category, this is one that I simply can't pass.


As an immigrant myself, as an immigrant for the second time in a second country, it makes me truly upset and sad to see what is going on in the world right now. The hatred, the racism, the judgement, the stereotyping.. it's all something that should not happen in this time and age. It is 2017 and country leaders are sowing seeds of hate and anger into people like it is the 1940's.  Last summer I left the UK feeling like a foreigner, after living in that country for several years, a country that I had made my home; but after the whole Brexit vote, I along with a whole bunch of other Europeans, felt unwanted and in that sense I was happy to leave.

I'm not going to even mention how it feels like living in the US right now, after seeing and hearing what the new president has already done, only after about a week in the office. I'm not from a country that faces a lot of prejudice or racism, neither do I get insulted cos of my skin colour, my hair type or my accent, but that doesn't make me any less of an alien, a foreigner, an immigrant than anyone else in this country. I can only imagine how people from countries, who face the hatred on a daily basis, must feel like.

While I understand that there are people in this world who pose a threat to other countries and the leaders need to use their power to protect their citizens and their freedom from those groups of people, they are only a minority and so many other completely ordinary families and individuals get to suffer from those prejudices and hate.

The world can be such a depressing, aggressive and a scary place and it surely doesn't make it any better that people with such big amounts of power, money and publicity act like this and spread fear and anger through the masses.  If this all continues I might as well just move into a cabin in the woods somewhere back in Finland. 

                                           Why can't we all just love each other?