Horror, honor or reflection and action?

The numbers for the flow of migrants has reached a very dangerous point in human history and although many people would say that it was always like that or it was the same after this or that war, it is not true.

For starters, nowadays, there is no continent free of a critical migration flow (a minimum of 5 or 6 thousand people at a time). But typical of humans, instead of looking for definite solutions, we choose other paths.

Yes, emergency is there; if a building is burning you wouldn’t think of the reason… First, rescue survivors and anything that can be salvaged and later, we would check what is going on. So, it is understandable that under such a tsunami of refugees, we look for the safe shelter of solving it right now.

But that is not a solution, and we all know it. In fact, Europe has not committed to take as many refugees as the number that would be coming.

However, the horror made that honor was awaken. Well, honor still exists. Personally, I thought it extinct, present only in books and B Movies. But it is around…

Honor awakened creativity and love, compassion and the desire of doing something, anything. From the heart many ideas emerged like my favorite one: buying an island and starting a new country…

In Colombia, where the crisis came due to the expulsion of more than 5,000 non-documented Colombians from Venezuela, honor made the government take the matter and offer a basic structure for them, like jobs and houses.

And yet… That is not touching the depth of the situation. Islands, jobs or houses won’t stop the migration forever, it may mitigate it and it may reduce our sense of guilty as a community, but it is far of solving it.

It is time our leaders de facto take over their real responsibility: reflecting on the situation and acting accordingly. Nobody wants more speeches or promises; nobody wants things that we have been doing for ages and we know that solution would be small and for a short time.

However, there are solutions, and many. Written by scholars and common people there are solutions that can prevent migration in that scale or at least, create a humane structure for these people in despair.

Maybe you are that leader… Maybe you are the person who can reflect and act, and change history. Just get up and go there, with your big idea in your mind and hands ready for action.

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Marcelo Bulk is a business consultant, author and coach. He has been working on his own self for more than 30 years by meditating and serving as a volunteer

Evolution depends on you

After studying about evolution in school, my first thought was: Why did we stop?

Yes, in terms of science and technology we are evolving. There is no doubt about human greatness when you see the first moons of Pluto or a vaccine for Ebola.

Yes, as a community we are more open to embrace differences. And it seems we run faster and are older than our ancestors.

However, when we see the killing on the name of religion or ethnicity, or we hear on how violence is increasing inside the otherwise safe home, we see a different reality.

In fact, we have lost so many values along the time. Take HONOR for instance and try to find it around. It is extinct, living in our memory of what our grandparents used to say, books and movies.

In fact, we have lost touch with our spiritual side so much and our own humanity. We are destroying our environment - not the governments or big companies, WE - and it seems there is no way to stop it.

My realization is that if we want to really evolve, stopping the killing, violence, recovering values and our natural environment, we have to work on our own evolution. I am not saying here we should drink medicines or change our arms into bionic ones; I am talking from inside.

Different than a natural evolution, human evolution happens on a total different level. It starts inside from a realization and normally from one person or a small group of people. Then it spreads around until it reaches the whole world. We have that already: when someone realized enslave another person is wrong or the other gender has similar rights. But we need more and we need it faster.

Otherwise one day, we will be the case of study, not some birds or tortoises.