Tag: March 25

The Past We Cannot Ignore

The past does not disappear. It stays in what we see, what we ignore, and what we choose to face.

International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery • March 25

Some parts of history do not fade on their own. They stay—not always visible, but always there.

Slavery is one of them.

For generations, people were taken, sold, and treated as property. Lives reduced to labor. Names replaced. Families broken before they even had the chance to stay whole.

This is not a distant story.

What was built in that time did not disappear. It shaped systems, thinking, and the way people are still treated in many parts of the world.

Remembering is not about staying in the past. It is about refusing to pretend it did not happen. Because when something this serious is ignored, it does not end. It only changes form.

But this is not only about suffering. It is also about those who endured—those who resisted in ways seen and unseen, those who held on to dignity when everything else was taken.

That part matters too.

Remembering moves into how we live now. People are not labels, and we treat them that way. Fairness is not adjusted to fit comfort. Truth is not something we reshape just to make things easier.

History is already written. What we do with it—that part is still being decided.

⌨ ᴛʸᵖⁱⁿᵍ ᴏᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʙˡᵘᵉ ᵈᵃʳᵉᵐ ᵐᵘˢⁱᶜ ᵇˡᵒᵍ

Endangered Service

Not all service happens in safe places.

International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members • March 25

Some people are sent to places where help is needed most—conflict zones, unstable regions, and communities where safety is uncertain. They are not there to fight. They are there to help.

They are part of humanitarian and international work—staff from the United Nations, aid groups, and NGOs. Their job is to bring food, medicine, and support where systems have already broken down.

But in those same places, that work comes with risk. Some are detained. Some are taken. Some go missing without clear answers.

One of them was Alec Collett, a British journalist working with a United Nations agency in Lebanon. On March 25, 1985, he was abducted while on assignment. Years later, it was confirmed that he had been killed.

His case showed something simple: even those who come to help are not always safe.

And it was not just him. There are others—before and after—who faced the same situation just by being there to do their job.

This is what solidarity means here. Not just knowing about it, but not brushing it off as something far away.

Because even if we are not in those places, the thinking is familiar—we tend to say “that’s far from us” and move on.

But once we start thinking like that, it becomes easier to ignore people who take risks to help others.

Solidarity keeps it simple.

We pay attention.
We do not dismiss it.
We do not act like it does not matter.

They continue to serve. We choose not to ignore it.

⌨ ᴛʸᵖⁱⁿᵍ ᴏᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʙˡᵘᵉ ᵈᵃʳᵉᵐ ᵐᵘˢⁱᶜ ᵇˡᵒᵍ

Tears on an Empty Space•Darem Placer