That isn't a trend anymore, that's a lethal weapon. That hashtag has become as dangerous in the wrong hands as a loaded gun is, it's as dangerous as a sharpened knife in the hands of someone who believes a knife is a tool to survive, to fend for oneself...
If I cut you, do you not bleed.....
#bekind has become vicious, almost like a defence tool when deciding to attack. It's used so much it should come with its own warning instructions. Almost everything is on social media nowadays and whether you choose to follow a thread about love Island, or Joe Biden, or Afghanistan or covid vaccines or crowds in Croake Park verses live theatre not being allowed, nephet verses freedom, masks verses no masks, you will inevitably come across that hashtag #bekind loaded and ready to fire, used as a justification to say whatever the hell you fell like saying, and hurting however cruelly you feel like hurting, you feel you can lessen the hurt by ending it with #bekind
That hashtag became a trend after a suicide, a rememberance, a kindness, a way to explain the unexplainable....I don't need to go into who's suicide, or why they committed suicide, because I've been there. I'm the statistic of knowing someone wo knew someone, I'm the hashtag of a hashtag of loss, the pain of holding someone in pain, the wounds scarred deep, the outcome of the torture suicide inflicts....
And I promise you noone ever needed to #bekind to us, that kindness came naturally. It came from love, and truth and honesty and the need to just help...
That kindness was our town, our community, our family....
That kindness remains unforgettable and helps us sleep to this day.....
#bekind started in a kind place but got misplaced in a now fucked up world. A world we all seem to struggle in and its become so easy to lash out and lay blame and drop our opinion on everything and it is easy to justify what we say as long we end that opinion with #bekind
But are we being kind, or are we just scared and using anything we can reach as a weapon to defend ourselves. Defend ourselves from the terrifying prospect that we dont actually know whats right or wrong, or who will end up right or wrong.... or who will survive this unrecognisable messed up world....
Are we being brave enough by trying to make the difference between pain and joy obvious or is it easier to lash out as long as we hashtag a kind word at the end of our hurt so we can argue we were being kind so to convince the world we didn't mean to hurt.....
But eventually we all end up hurting and the circle of pain continues... never ending
Valerie Masters
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