Do we have a problem of collective narcissism?

If we want, we still can count on each other to evade this trap

This is not about taking part of one side or another.
This is about siding with life. Siding with innocents.
Siding with people who just want to live a life with peace and without fear.
Life is about peace, after all.

I didn't get into details of the Hamas terrorist attacks because living a war is already too much information for this broken heart. I just want to extend my condolences to everyone who lost someone in this unhappy chapter of this long story involving Israel and Palestine.

Another war in another corner of the world. Actually, we are not so distant, we are about 2,000 kilometers apart if taken in a straight line. Is the problem related to our position on the planet? Is our pain coming from a fate that dictates suffering must be accepted and taken as part of normal life?

For sure to live means to suffer to some extent. No one has to have fantasies of a life free from occasional adversities, losses, uncertainties. No matter in what part this planet blessed by God.

By every God, of every religion. Every faith has in the end the common goal of showing societies that living in the bounds of peace is the most comprehensive way to boost human spirit. Everywhere, as far and as humbly I can go, there's the mention of love for the neighbor as ourselves.

These are words that carry a meaning we are not used to thinking so deeply in an environment of so much hate, suspicion, and competition we developed against each other. It's about love as a synonym of respect, of understanding, of tolerance. 

Meanings that we just so much forget that are related to love. When we talk about love, we tend only to remember the romantic love we build for others. Which is beautiful indeed, of course. But it's so shallow to reduce it to an individual experience.

Maybe because we live so much inside our own individual experiences that we have a big struggle to understand that life goes much beyond our own narcissistic existences. It is more than time to start projecting the best of our nature onto others. 

Let's escape from the trap of our self-centered dilemmas and start to understand that what we are and what we believe is not necessarily the truth just because we judge it's the truth.

This is why tolerance and understanding seem to be so old fashioned these days. Because we are narcissists as societies. Because we are less and less prone to listen to those who have different demands from ourselves or those who are simply different.

Israelis, Palestinians, Russians, we Ukrainians, everyone everywhere please please please stop this wheel of self-destruction. Acting in this collectively narcissistic behavior we will only reach devastation. Pretty much as those unhappy people affected by narcissist personality disorder.

The bright side is that together we can manage things much better than an individual who almost always only has a way out by themselves. As we know, unfortunately, it's almost impossible for a narcissist to be self-aware, but as parts of a family, a club, a religion, a society, a nation, we can count on each other to evade this ambush.

We need to rightly and urgently employ the biggest strength of being a collectivity, at any level: the opportunity of raising self-awareness as a community.

And so we will stop this stream of desperation we are living in more and more parts of the world as I'm testifying in my country.

I reached the end of this text without knowing exactly what I wrote. These words are a purely emotional expression. But I am publishing it without reviewing and I apologize for possible mistakes and lack of meaning.

Love you all.